Guide to Mac, iPod, iPad and iPhone news and reviews
Increasingly we find video monitors in offices and stores that play looping slideshows. All too often these things must either be started by the first people to arrive at work in the morning (and stopped by the last person leaving) or, worse, are …
Trine 2 (Mac App Store link) enhances its 2009 predecessor’s realistic physics and delightful dialogue with even more variety, depth, and beauty.
Trine 2’s jaw-dropping graphics and vivid, living environments get more amazing with each level….
The iPhone 5s introduces a new Slo-Mo camera mode, in which you can create videos that seamlessly slide from normal video to super-smooth slow-motion action and back again. That smooth motion happens because in Slo-Mo mode, the iPhone 5s is shootin…
Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s GemFest 2013. Every day (except Sunday) from mid-July until late September, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a standout free or low-cost program. Learn mo…
June, 1995. A dark and stormy night. An eerie, empty mansion. Pleading messages on the answering machine. And a note from your teenaged little sister, begging you not to find her.
You may think you know what kind of story Gone Home (Mac App Stor…
Games are flourishing across all active Apple platforms, and each month brings a bevy of new iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch titles, not to mention an ever-growing array of exciting Mac affairs. As a result, we’re reviewing more games now than we ever hav…
Even by the standards of post-apocalyptic shooters, game worlds don’t come much bleaker than the one glimpsed in Metro: Last Light. Two decades after a nuclear war, the remnants of humanity huddle deep underground in the Moscow Metro, where stations ha…
The market for cases that protect your smartphone is huge—as in $2.2 billion worth of huge, if you believe the numbers put out by market research firm NPD Group. Even if that number seems a little high to you, just a glance around at all the peo…
Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s GemFest 2013. Every day (except Sunday) from mid-July until late September, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a standout free or low-cost program. Learn mo…
Apps designed using iOS 7’s design language have a clear advantage. Those that we loved in iOS 6 are already starting to feel old and antiquated, and it won’t be long before we start looking for more modern replacements. Perfect Weather, while not quit…
ReadQuick offers a words-per-minute rate between 50 and 800.
Move over Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability—some new read-it-later iOS apps have arrived on the scene that not only help you read online content later, they also help you read it fast…
“Siri, that’s not my name!”Apple’s personal assistant can create emails for you, set appointments, and find information on the web. Siri can look up what movies are playing or calculate exchange rates. But, if you have a name like mine, Siri often jus…
Each week brings an absolute barrage of new games for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, but it can be difficult to pick out of the cream of the crop by looking at a mass of icons and titles. Luckily, we’re tuned in to the most notable releases, and we’ll b…
The App Store doesn’t allow premium upgrades to existing apps, so what’s a developer to do when it wishes to go above and beyond the usual tweaks and release a totally new version of an app? In the case of Screens, a screen sharing and VNC client f…
Most guitar slingers tend to pick up the instrument and start emulating their favorite musicians, learning how to play by example and sheer brute effort. While this approach is valid, it tends to lead axe-wielders towards certain chord shapes, and limi…
Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s GemFest 2013. Every day (except Sunday) from mid-July until late September, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a standout free or low-cost program. Learn mo…