Category: Reviews-HowTos

 Size-wise, iPad mini is the middle child of the iOS family, but hand-me-down clothes aren’t really an option here. Luckily, casemakers have been quick to produce cases made especially for Apple’s midsized tablet. We’ve reviewed every one we’ve be…

The Vettra case continues Sena’s tradition of making sleek Apple accessories using premium materials. The leather is supple and smooth, and the case comes in classic black, white, or red. There’s a simple magnetic clasp to hold the cover closed, and wh…

STM’s Grip is a jack-of-all-trades. Adding a hardshell case to a cover that can sleep & wake your iPad, the Grip also features a textured surface to help you hang on, and a flip-out kickstand that can hold your iPad at two different angles. As a pr…

Apple’s latest updates to its MacBook Air laptops have been getting rave reviews for their incredible battery life: the 13-inch model clocks more than 12 hours on a single charge. Unfortunately, these new Airs have also been getting some unwante…

When I want to step away from my desk, I move my pointer to the top-left corner of my display. My screensaver activates and my screen locks. When I want to see if I have any messages in Notification Center, I move my cursor to the top-right corner…

Last week, for the sake of completeness, I took you on a tour of Safari—an application that you likely used to read the lesson. This week we’ll dig deeper and explore some of Safari’s most important preferences. To begin, choose Safari > …

If you’ve been using a Mac for any length of time, you know that it’s more than just a pretty point-and-click, window-and-icon interface. Beneath the surface of OS X is an entire world that you can access only from the command line. Terminal (…

A reader who prefers to remain anonymous has some movies that he’d like to turn into an entirely different kind of media file. He writes:

I have some MPEG-4 music video files and all I want to do is lift the soundtrack from them and burn that …

Our kids may have been able to unlock our iPhones since before they could walk, but that doesn’t mean they’re actually gaining anything by using them. There are countless cartoon and character apps to keep them occupied, but sometimes we want them to l…

iChat’s transformation into Messages was not exactly welcomed with open arms by Mac users everywhere. Some find the integration between iMessages and instant messages clunky; others have experienced a lot of flakiness (some of which Apple claims…

Check the Dashboard to see what deadlines are coming up.Compared to more basic to-do apps that focus on simplicity by limiting your options, Pagico goes in the other direction. But don’t let that put you off, because this is its greatest strength. Yo…

The NB-250 does sound better.As consumers we face the lifelong dichotomy of wanting to know our good money is well spent, and we also want to get the most bang for our buck. With speakers, this is rarely different. Nyne’s NB-250 sounds lush, there’…

TextExpander touch 2 now lets you insert macros and fill-in fields within your snippets, similar to the Mac version.

For those familiar with the TextExpander 4 for Mac utility, it may come as no surprise that Smile Software offers a $5 iOS version…

Armor Games’ Kingdom Rush for iOS was a challenging, charming, and moderately deep real-time strategy experience. Enemies and the soldiers you hired to kill them were adorably caricatured, and you could easily whittle away hours at a time coming u…

The iOS games market generally isn’t defined by the kinds of action titles with pinpoint-precise controls that dominate consoles. That makes it all the more daring when a game on iPhone and iPad attempts to go in such a direction, and even more impre…

Like its predecessors, Gangstar Vegas takes many of its cues from popular open-world action games like Grand Theft Auto and Saints Row, offering plenty of story-driven missions and a large setting to explore. As such, you can expect to drive around in …