Category: Reviews-HowTos

If you recently picked up a new Mac, iPhone, iPod, or iPad, you may have seen mention of something called iCloud when setting up your device. If you don’t already know, iCloud is a free syncing and backup service from Apple that aims to keep all o…

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!Dealing with text…

Reader Alec Lancaster finds it too much trouble to mount a remote disk. He writes:

I’ve attached a USB hard drive to my AirPort Extreme Base Station and use it as a storage location for all the computers on my network. This is convenient but I…

You know that Men’s Health book series and website, Eat This, Not That, right? That’s the one that explains why French toast is better than Belgian waffles, from a nutritional standpoint, or that an A&W chili dog is a healthier choice than the …

With hundreds of millions of iPhones, iPads, and iPod touch models sold (over 400 million as of last June—before the debut of the iPhone 5 and the iPad mini), there’s a good chance that if your family owns one iOS device, you own two or three

We’ve all experienced the embarrassment of sending someone an email referencing an attached file or document, only to receive a reply that, despite our claims, nothing was attached. It’s a frequent-enough problem that a few years back, Google a…

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from Macworld UK. Visit Macworld UK’s blog page for the latest Mac news from across the Atlantic.
We need to get a move on, as we only have about 150 years in which to discover interstellar trav…

The tenacity of paper is amazing. Given that electronic screens permeate our lives and a whole generation has grown up with the Internet in their homes, it seems that paper should be obsolete by now. Yet we still get account statements in the mail…

I know more than a few people who connect an older Mac to their TV, using various audio and video cables, to play videos. Most of these people would love to instead stream those videos wirelessly to an Apple TV, but their Macs aren’t new enough t…

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.You ha…

Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from Macworld UK. Visit Macworld UK’s blog page for the latest Mac news from across the Atlantic.

The Good Life is yet another addition to the ‘tycoon’ genre of games. It’s not based on…

The Thunderbolt interface has opened the door for a variety of new accessories, and Matrox’ DS1 docking station exemplifies the standard’s versatility. The DS1 is geared for Apple’s notebook computers, pairing either HDMI or DVI output with additional …

You have one of Amazon’s Kindle ebook readers as well as the Kindle app on an iOS device. When you purchase a Kindle ebook from Amazon, it syncs beautifully between devices—you read to page 212 on one device and when you pick up the other, it …

Studiometry 10 is a business management application aimed at small businesses and designed to help track and manage projects, create quotes and invoices, and make sure you’re getting paid on time. Geared toward businesses that are anywhere from 1…

In the last Ask the iTunes Guy column of the year, I look at playlist views, a quick way to make playlists from folders of songs, adding tags to your tracks, and how to see the duration of selected tracks in iTunes 11.

Q: I use playlists to sort…

Reader Steven Harris is trying to do the right thing by his family, but technical barriers prevent it. He writes:

Over the holidays I took your advice to give the gift of tech support by offering my services to my sister. She has an older MacBoo…