Category: Reviews-HowTos

By now you’ve accumulated plenty of documents—music, movie, image, text, and PDF files—and at this point you may want to do something with those files beyond flinging them into folders. One of the best ways to get any such doing done is to d…

Matias has long been known for its excellent Tactile Pro Keyboards (; $150), now in their third generation. For many people, the Tactile Pro is the closest you can get to Apple’s venerable—but long discontinued—Extended Keyboard, thanks to Al…

League of Geeks’ debut game Armello was one of the stars of the show floor at the PAX Australia pop-culture convention last weekend. Coming next year to iOS, it’s a gorgeous turn-based strategy offering that draws elements from card and board games, as…

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. You can …

Like many of you, I have an Aunt Vilma. And this Aunt Vilma has the kind of question that’s on the minds of other like-minded Aunts around the world. Specifically:

Dear Topher,

Why should I buy an iPad?

Love,To read this article in full or t…

If you’ve ever had a hankerin’ to sit down and craft your own biography—or to collect the stories of your parents or grandparents before they pass on—StoryPress, a free iPad app from GhostGear Labs, is just the place to start. It helps you …

There’s something about music that brings us together. From drum circles to the original Napster, our favorite songs somehow sound better when we share them with other people. Even when we’re rocking out to our iPods, we want our friends to know what w…

Back in the video-game heyday of the ‘90s, it wasn’t uncommon to see high-profile titles get releases on portable systems as well as home consoles. The former ports were invariably watered down — handhelds could at best make a valiant attempt at …

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. You can …

As an on-again, off-again graphic designer and doodler, I’ve long lusted after Wacom’s Cintiq line. My very first Wacom product, an Intuos, sparked my dreams: How amazing would it be if I could not only draw with pressure sensitivity, but see …

If you’ve read Macworld for any length of time—particularly our OS X Hints blog or any other story that asks you to use Terminal—you may have wondered to yourself: How do you learn about all those mysterious commands, such as ls or cd? Is it …

From the makers of one of the most addictive, time consuming strategy games of all time comes Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol, an exceptional World War I-themed strategy
game. If you downloaded the title with visions of white knuckle turns, machin…

Pac-Man is in the midst of a renaissance right now; between multiple video games built to support an upcoming cartoon launch, the character is headed in a lot of different directions at once. Pac-Man Dash! is his latest iOS incarnation, and it’s an end…

Although I’m the guy others come to for answers, there are times when I have questions of my own. For instance, while discussing beloved movies with a friend I was reminded that I don’t own copies of Alfred Hitchcock’s greatest movies. Hoping …

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. You can …

The Mac platform boasts an abundance of free and low-cost software, thanks in no small part to the convenience and popularity of the Mac App Store (though the concept of great, inexpensive apps long predates the store). It seems we’ve never had …