Category: Reviews-HowTos

H&R Block At Home 2012 is the flagship desktop application of the H&R Block tax universe. An easy-to-use application that makes filing your taxes a snap, At Home 2012 also offers personalized assistance from H&R Block tax professionals…

TurboTax Premier 2012 is essentially the mirror image, in a desktop application, of Intuit’s new iPad version of TurboTax. (Which is to say that Intuit has done a great job of migrating a desktop app to iOS.) As always TurboTax helps you make qu…

They say that celebrity deaths come in threes. It appears that Mophie battery cases for the iPhone 5 come in twos. Just a couple weeks after releasing the Juice Pack Helium ()—the company’s first battery case for the iPhone 5—Mophie has unve…

The Mac|Life 101 series is where you can come to learn new and simple ways to do things with Apple’s desktop and mobile operating systems. Whether you’re new to the platform, or just want to learn a new technique, then MacLife 101 is for you.Many c…

OS X Mountain Lion’s iOS-inspired Notification Center feature lets applications alert you to important events. But there’s more Notification Center could do—with the right apps. For example, if you’ve installed Growl and the excellent Hard…

The new iMac was introduced in late October, however trying to get your hands on one is not easy. Even now, if you choose a customized option as we did, you will need to wait for up to four weeks before you can get yours. Even ahead of its launch, rumo…

Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices are similar in one respect to the iPod on release — until one used it, the utility wasn’t immediately apparent, and then, upon acquisition it becomes nearly vital to day to day operations. The Iomega PX2-300d is …

I have an iPhone 5, and have iMessage turned on; however, when I send a message, sometimes the iMessages are switched over to texts even though I have the “Send as SMS” setting turned off in Messages settings.To avoid your iPhone using SMS when you…

Every Monday, we’ll show you how to do something new and simple with Apple’s built-in command line application. You don’t need any fancy software, or a knowledge of coding to do any of these. All you need is a keyboard to type ’em out!Know of a great c…

Surfing the web can leave you open for security issues, and though Macs are good at keeping you secure, nothing is foolproof. Because no machine is 100 percent safe, you should be aware of the associated risks, regardless of what you use. When keeping your Mac secure, make sure that you stay up to date […]

The Mac|Life 101 series is where you can come to learn new and simple ways to do things with Apple’s desktop and mobile operating systems. Whether you’re new to the platform, or just want to learn a new technique, then MacLife 101 is for you.Whethe…

Headphones and portable speakers are, for my money, still the best uses of Bluetooth, at least when it comes to audio. There are other options, like connecting to a full-sized stereo or car system, but in those cases there are often equally convenient …

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Storm Raiders is the second air combat game in the Sky Gamblers series, following Sky Gamblers:…

Dive into the world of sound with these interactive app-tivities.

Just how much does your brain functionality affect what you hear? Your gut reaction to that question might be “not a lot,” but the staff at the Exploratorium, a hands-on science…

HP’s EliteBook 2570p is the latest notebook in what the company describes as its "business rugged" category. The 12.5-inch model is designed to hold up to the moderate abuse while on the go, taking advantage of aluminum and magnesium …

When shopping for a technology backpack, have you ever thought, “This bag would be perfect if only it had a couple extra slots for those things I need”? The folks at Mission Workshop clearly have, because the R6 Arkiv Field Backpack is an intr…