Category: Reviews-HowTos

Looking for the way to join tracks when you rip CDs with iTunes 11? Need to know how to get tracks into playlists quickly? What about iTunes Store device limits and gifting apps? All this and more in this week’s column.

Q: I am unable to join …

You learn a lot after four months of working at a tech shop window.

Between October of 2012 and February of 2013, I was part of the University of California Berkeley’s tech repair window staff. The Apple certifications had been earned, the time…

I would like to automatically have iTunes 11 launch when I connect my device to my computer. Currently, only iPhoto opens, and I would like to disable this functionality so that only iTunes 11 will open when my iPhone, iPad, or iPod is connected.The fi…

The easiest way to access OS X’s powerful Spotlight search technology is using the systemwide Spotlight menu. But chances are you aren’t getting as much out of this menu as you could be. In this video, Dan Frakes show you a few tricks for making…

Most of the time, you hit a volume button on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, and it does what you expect, whether it’s turning up your reminder alarms or turning down your music. And then there are the other times.

But once you understand th…

It’s been about eight years since I first looked at Evoluent’s VerticalMouse 2 for another publication. The company is now at the fourth iteration of its ergonomically focused input device, appropriately named the VerticalMouse 4 (or, more spe…

Last week we explored the Users & Groups system preference. In that lesson I didn’t throughly explain the Parental Controls preference. Now’s the time.

It’s the unwise parent who grants their young child unguarded access to the Interne…

Email (like other forms of communication) makes it rather difficult to verify authenticity. Just because you receive an email from someone doesn’t mean it actually came from that person. Perhaps the email was forged, perhaps the mail server was hacke…

Customization: meDrive settings are accessible through a browser.

Kanex’s meDrive is supposed to make it easy to set up a file server on your home network. It’s a small device that you plug into your network router after you’ve attached your …

With smartphone cameras and their dedicated apps—primarily one app called Instagram—photo filters have emerged not only as a way of life, but as almost a de rigueur aspect of mobile shooting and sharing.
The opening interface lets you aim and t…

Reader Tim Kisanuki is a bit late to the party and is unsure what to expect when he arrives. He writes:

I’ve been running Snow Leopard on my iMac since it was released. I’m finally ready to upgrade to Mountain Lion. Before I do, can you tel…

Slot machines, RPG combat, zombies, and quirky comics? Yes please! King Cashing 2 is a mishmash of oddities that go surprisingly well together, though the inspiration for throwing all these disparate elements into the same pot is a bit of a head scratc…

Why would you need an extra Thunderbolt cable? Lots of reasons. For example, did you know you can connect a Thunderbolt MacBook Air to an iMac with Thunderbolt, and press Command-F2 on the iMac’s keyboard, and you’re instantly using its display as …

Professional image editing jumped onto tablets in early 2012 with Adobe Photoshop Touch, but smartphones remained curiously absent from the company’s finger-friendly party. That’s all changed with this year’s debut of a phone-specific version, bu…

I use Logitech’s Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 () every day. That keyboard satisfies my particular needs: I prefer a full-size keyboard with a number pad, and I want it to work wirelessly without having to remember to change batteries.

Since I …

Orchid Games’ Spirit Walkers: Curse of the Cypress Witch, the popular iPhone and iPad puzzle and adventure game, has finally made its way to the Mac.

Spirit Walkers starts with a group of friends telling the story of the Cypress Witch, a woman…