Category: Reviews-HowTos

When hard-drive disaster strikes, you need to start up your Mac from another drive to repair it. In days gone by, you would typically boot from the install CD or DVD that came with your Mac (assuming you could recall where you stashed it) and run …

Verizon has offered only a few choices for Windows Phone devices, recently adding Samsung’s Ativ Odyssey as the fourth option. With a $50 subsidized price tag, the handset sits between HTC’s Windows Phone 8X and Nokia’s Lumia 822. In our full review, w…

Reader Simon Hansen finds his Mac slow to do his bidding. He writes:

My Mac has been running very slowly lately and I wanted to see how much faster it would be if I disabled its startup items. But when I try to start up in Safe Mode, it shows t…

There’s no shortage of iPhone and iPod touch music players in the App Store. They all basically do the same thing, but each one presents your tunes in a unique way, using clever interfaces and bold fonts to make your music look as good as it sounds. Ma…

Liberation Maiden has all the makings of a title by Goichi Suda (a.k.a. Suda51), the eccentric creator behind console games like Lollipop Chainsaw and Killer7. In this iOS shooter, you play as a Japanese schoolgirl named Shoko and blast robotic terrori…

While some recoil at the thought, bugs and insects are just plain interesting—there’s something undeniably cool about our more-than-four-legged friends. And while you may not readily admit to owning a Starship Troopers DVD (or its priced-to-own seq…

Our latest roundup of new gear for your Mac includes new ways of giving your computer an old-school look, an old-school sound, and protection while you’re on the road.

If slim and stylish is what you’re looking for, Uniea’s Colorama Folio fits like a glove. The soft, textured cover offers a fair amount of grip, and comes in five eye-popping colors. The cover latches on top, and flips vertically so you can access the …

Sena’s Magia Wallet feels and smells like fine Italian leather, because it is. The simple magnetic closure flips open to reveal your phone, plus room for three cards and a few bills. The style echoes classic ladies’ pocketbooks, and the Magia wouldn’t …

Newer Technology’s NuGuard KX has been drop-tested according to military specifications. There’s even a video on the company’s website of a NuGuard-clad iPhone being dropped by some sadistic-looking robot thing, and emerging unscathed. The one-piece ca…

For minimalists, iPhone cases are something of a dilemma. The iPhone is beautiful and sleek…but the majority of case options cover up Apple’s storied design with something else entirely. On the other hand, Moshi’s iGlaze is the least amount of case y…

Luv’s Pulse features a two-piece design that allows you to mix and match parts to create different color combinations. The base layer is a solid-color cover that covers the back and edges of your phone. It’s unremarkable on its own, but the bright oute…

Hard Candy touts its tough-looking ShockDrop case as being “Construction-site approved.” We tried taking the case to a construction site to test that theory, but workers there said we were trespassing, so you’ll have to take Hard Candy’s word for it.In…

If you used email in the late ‘90s or early 2000s, odds are you are familiar with Eudora. Even after its maker Qualcomm officially decommissioned this trusty email client and dorm room staple, a loyal cadre of fans kept it alive in open-source f…

If you have an iPhone, chances are you know that it is likely a few steps above your basic point-and-shoot. Not only are they more convenient, but they’re often built with better cameras.  Take the iPhone 5, for example, which is home to an 8MP iSight camera with improved HDR capabilities, reduced motion blur, top notch […]

Macworld forum visitor lobsta43 has a question that follows up on my recent Mac 101 column regarding Parental Controls. The crustacean writes:

I use Parental Controls with my grandkids and it works well. The problem is that when they walk away f…