Category: Reviews-HowTos

A pint-sized pickpocket and his doe-eyed ferret pal make charmingly mischievous cohorts in this fresh, funny take on the point-and-click adventure genre. Rather than send you gallivanting along through one seamless quest, Tiny Thief challenges you to n…

Apple’s music division has been anything but idle the past several years, but it has focused largely on the GarageBand products for consumers and mobile users. The professional crowd has seen some updates (and a reduced price) to 2009’s Logic …

Blurring the line between marketing tool and vanity project, Kavinsky features the music and comic-like visage of the titular French house artist, who released an album earlier this year. Designed around the fictional backstory behind the record – ab…

Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine is one of the most appealing indie titles of the year to date. Rich visuals and engaging cooperative play turn this top-down action game about a group of oddball thieves into something really special. And when you’re playin…

These days, the No. 1 social network wants to be your everything, constantly assaulting your eyes with ads, suggestions, and updates from people you haven’t thought about in years. Luckily, the settings are fairly flexible, and you can tweak ’em to…

Finding ways to improve your health isn’t always easy, but an app that helps you monitor your fitness goals can be a real helping hand. Argus by Azumio is a free alternative to the more expensive and heftier apps on the market, and offers you plenty …

In this week’s column, I look at a few very different topics. One common question I get is about the iTunes Store and sending gifts to other countries; another concerns joining two music files to make one; and I also explain how you can cross-fa…

Creating a new installment in the Deus Ex series is ambitious by definition. To meet the lofty expectations of fans (who’ve been perpetually on guard since 2003’s disappointing Deus Ex: Invisible War), the games need to deliver freely explorable, belie…

In Le Vamp, it was an angry mob; in Temple Run 2, a giant gorilla. What’s chasing you in Greedy Dwarf? A dragon on a bicycle (!) — but thankfully, he’s not seen during actual gameplay, as you never slow down enough for him to appear onscreen…

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 each week, a…

You’ve likely found yourself in this position more than once: Your Mac is playing audio that you’d love a permanent copy of, but the application you’re using doesn’t provide a way to do that. While you could turn to one of the few commerci…

Last week I introduced you to 20 computer terms you should know. In addition to a few “thanks for that” responses, I also received a few “Yeah, but what about…” queries. And each is worth our time. So, have another round on me.

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Reader Hugh Carter has a colorful outlook on the world and would like to extend it to his work. He writes:

I have tried numerous sources to find a way to establish my own format for text in Pages, TextEdit, Reminders, Notes, and Mail. In each ap…

When it comes to Google Reader replacements, can there be only one? The folks behind Feedly seem to believe there’s room for everyone, and have engineered a cloud sync solution that extends its reach across rival apps and onto competing platforms.Fee…

Since I started using a document scanner about seven years ago, I’ve scanned many thousands of pages and used OCR (optical character recognition) software to convert those scans into searchable PDFs. I’ve also written extensively about the pape…

There’s definitely a lot of convenient travel apps to choose from, but there are more that sit behind the scenes that aren’t exactly essential but make travel a heck of a lot easier. We’ve dug up seven of our favourites and want you to downtown them right now. Airport Chatter Get it from iTunes; Free […]