Category: Reviews-HowTos

In some games, story is the spice; in others, it’s the whole meal. Steve Jackson’s Sorcery! fell into the latter category, as a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure style series of choices unwrapped into seemingly endless possibilities. Sorcery! 2 is largely …

Everyone’s routine is a bit different, but there’s one thing that we all have in common: The need for a good night’s sleep. Failing to get the required amount of rest can be the difference between a productive day with a positive outlook and a fruitles…

Last year’s Rayman Jungle Run was a real surprise — a game built using the same engine and familiar art assets from the excellent and robust console action game, Rayman Origins, but recast as a mobile auto-runner. The limited game mechanics and bre…

After nearly two years, the mobile edition of iPhoto has finally hit version 2.0, leaving skeuomorphic UI elements behind in order to better fit into an iOS 7 world. Unlike iLife companions iMovie and GarageBand, there’s not a whole lot to get excite…

Some of our favorite iPhone apps are the ones we don’t use every day. For every Twitter client and text editor, there’s a photo enhancer or layout tool that we turn to only when we want a specific need filled quickly and easily. While we can’t specific…

OS X Mavericks is finally here, and MacLife will be bringing informative how to’s to keep you updated on what has changed and how to use it. Check back often to learn more about the newest operating system for the Mac from Apple.Mavericks and iCloud …

Reader Dennis Malloy finds himself lost in Calendar. He writes:

When I used Calendar in Mountain Lion I could configure events so I was alerted via email. But now that option seems to be missing. Is there some way to bring it back?

It’s sti…

Believe it or not, there was a time not long ago when surfing the Internet from your back porch required a very, very long ethernet cable. These days Wi-Fi seems to be everywhere, with inkjet printers, digital cameras, TVs, and even refrigerators c…

Apple’s latest operating system update, OS X 10.9 Mavericks, is out. If you own a Mac that supports the OS update, you should get it. Now. You certainly can’t beat the price: free!

While Mavericks is a stable release, it’s not bug-free. Th…

I’ve been getting a lot of interesting, if obscure, questions lately, including one—regarding adding album art to high-resolution AIFF files—that took me a while to solve. In this week’s column, I share that tale; discuss duplicating just …

Mavericks’s Finder tags feature gives you the ability to assign labels and keywords to your files and folders, which is a mighty fine thing if you’re organizationally inclined. However, regardless of how keen you are on the idea of tagging you…

A concerned reader writes:

The other day you said that once you open and edit a Pages ‘09 file (or another kind of iWork ‘09 document) that file becomes irrevocably linked to the newest version of the application. Is that really true?

N…

It was great while it lasted, but I finally broke up with Gmail. Though I had relied on Google’s popular email service for years, my level of satisfaction had been dropping steadily for a while, and changes in the Mavericks version of Mail (about…

Reader Chris Watkins, like some other people, has a couple of bones to pick with Pages. He writes:

I downloaded the new version of Pages and I discovered that when I opened an old Pages document and made a change, I could no longer open it with …

Find My iPhone is part of Apple’s iCloud service, and it’s an easy way to find your devices as long as they have power and an available internet connection. It’s similar to Find My Friends, another Apple app that lets friends chose to privat…

It’s getting to be a habit with us. When a new Apple desktop- or mobile operating system appears we can’t help but to dig into the thing and extract the tips we think will be most helpful to you. Mavericks is all part of that pattern. In this …