Category: Reviews-HowTos

Geocaching is not for the casual urban adventurer. The concept is simple enough – seek out a hidden treasure by following a specific set of GPS coordinates – but there’s a reason why it never caught on in the mainstream. Not only does it command a …

When you can’t help but whip through a couple dozen attempts each time you open up a game, it more than likely has its hooks plunged quite deep into your psyche. Luckily, Impossible Road is a game worthy of such obsession, as the unflinchingly difficul…

Disney’s long been known as the go-to maker of family films, but with Disney Interactive’s new Story app for the iPhone and iPod Touch, they’re hoping families will make some short films of their own. Story, which is free, takes various media on your i…

Known for console and computer heavy hitters like Civilization V and XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Firaxis’ latest strategy game is the unexpectedly kid-friendly and cartoonish Haunted Hollow for iPhone and iPad. Starring familiar monsters like vampires, ghos…

Samsung’s new flagship Android smartphone, the Galaxy S 4, faces even stiffer competition than its popular predecessor. With a five-inch, 1920×1080 display, it is also one of the largest phones on the market. Will the fresh hardware and slew of new sof…

Depressed by its bleak perspective, alone and freezing in the digital marketplace, Don’t Starve survives solely on mystery and cheek. The first self-released offering from developer Klei Entertainment — best known for attractive consoles side-scroller…

Everything about Lego Star Wars: The Yoda Chronicles — from its overhead camera to its unit building mechanics — resembles a real-time strategy game. The adorable characters and familiar Star Wars iconography could have made this free-to-play affair …

Cooler Master is known for its PC-cooling devices, but the company also makes laptop stands designed especially for the MacBook Pro. I’ve been using two of Cooler Master’s stands, the $70 Jas Pro and the $60 L-Stand.

Jas Pro

Made of aluminum…

Angry Birds Friends brought the fowl-flinging sensation to Facebook, and unsurprisingly, it proved hugely popular in that format. Now the socially connected spin on the franchise makes the return trip to iPhone and iPad while maintaining the distinct, …

Thanks to an ever-growing, and increasingly diverse, array of apps for using your iPhone on the go—think GPS apps, cycling apps, and travel apps—one of the biggest questions iPhone owners have is, “How do I mount my iPhone [in my car/on my b…

While I can’t remember the last time I did any amount of pen-to-paper long-form writing (do signatures count?), it’s hard to refute that Evernote’s free Penultimate for the iPad is a rather attractive concoction.

Evernote

This handwriting app …

iPhone users rarely have any need to envy their Android-toting friends, but the introduction of Google Now certainly gave them one reason to do so. With the feature finally available on iOS with the latest update to Google Search, does it actually live…

Though it draws heavy inspiration from a particular sci-fi franchise well known for boldly sending a spaceship full of uniformed crew where no one has gone before, Star Command doesn’t fiddle around with any namby-pamby prime directive. The galaxy is f…

Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just plug a flash drive into your iPhone or iPad when you want to transfer a file or you’re short on storage? PhotoFast actually has one: The i-FlashDrive HD is a flash drive for the iPad, iPhone, and Mac.

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Reader Patricia Whitney has done the Bad Thing to her iPad and wonders if there’s a way to make it Good. She writes:

I dropped my first-generation iPad and now the screen’s colors are all wrong. Blacks are green and there’s a lot of “st…

When you’re working in a deeply nested folder (a folder within a folder within…), the Finder provides several options for moving back up through the hierarchy. But only one option provides both at-a-glance info and powerful shortcuts for workin…