Category: Reviews-HowTos

The 16.1 megapixel Sony SLT A57 digital SLT camera is aimed at a very discerning camera buyer: Goldilocks. Papa Bear might prefer the bigger, more complicated and more expensive A77; Mama Bear might pick the lighter entry-level A37, but if Goldilo…

House of Marley’s Lively Up Leather Scout Pack is a good-looking, eco-friendly laptop bag that adjusts to fit all sorts of goodies—including a full-sized iPad and a 15-inch MacBook Pro. But after using the Scout Pack for a week, I was less enam…

On the surface, Hog Bay Software’s $25 FoldingText (Mac App Store link) is a basic text editor. In fact, if you don’t dig too deep, you could easily be fooled into thinking that FoldingText is too simple to merit more than a passing glance. Th…

Some games trade substance for visual flash. But in the action role-playing game The World Ends With You, the world of fashion is the game’s substance. You play as a teenager in Japan’s colorful Shibuya district suffering from amnesia and in a des…

With the new iPad mini a hot commodity, we mustn’t forget about all of the amazing app developers hot on its tail, producing fantastic apps that highlight the mini’s features.Here are five of our newest apps we love and why we love ‘em. ShopShop Get it here from iTunes; Free A simple, basic shopping list that […]

The Netatmo Weather Station is described as “the first personal weather station for iPhone & iPad.” The Weather Station itself consists of two pieces of hardware, and the company provides a free iOS app for accessing weather data from thes…

The release of the fourth-generation iPad so soon after the third-generation iPad may have come as a surprise to even diehard Apple watchers, but the device itself won’t. By now, we all know what an iPad looks like, and the fourth-generation iPa…

While iTunes 11 is running a little late, it is expected to drop on us this month. When it arrives, it will be the single biggest change to iTunes since the introduction of the iTunes Music Store. To prepare for this large update, you may want to prepa…

“Apple knew what I wanted even before I did.”For fans of Apple, iPads, and shiny, beepy things, the arrival of the iPad mini is cause for celebration–and that’s before we’ve actually gotten our hands on the thing. Steve Jobs famously said that…

While there are plenty of Canabalt and Jetpack Joyride copycats on the App Store, Punch Quest is part of a rarer breed. Managing to bring a new twist to the auto-runner genre, Rocketcat Games has created an addicting title that blends old-school advent…

There are plenty of unique and colorful ways to read news on the iPad. Pulse, Flipboard, Newsify, and Reeder — not to mention every major media outlet — all offer pleasant ways to get your daily news fix, with bright photos and constantly updating he…

FontAgent Pro 5 is an industrial-strength font manager with an interface that’s simple enough for beginners, but with features powerful enough for graphics pros. Version 5 adds helpful new features to an already powerful feature set, and an attr…

Organize (available at the Mac App Store) is a to-do list manager with project management aspirations, but its ambitious feature set tends to be a drag on the experience. Most essentials for a good task manager are present, like task grouping and…

It’s hard to believe that Apple released the original iPad in January of 2010 with many at the time mocking it for its name as well as wondering whether anyone would find a use for it. Approaching two years later, we are already on to the fourth genera…

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It’s taken a few years for Empire: Total War to reach the Mac, but it’s a huge game that …

In a world crawling with undead, it seems the opportunist is alive and well. A bespectacled Los Angeles film director wants to make zombie films, and he needs a murderous star. Enter your broad-shouldered, square-jawed avatar. I call him “Born 2 Kill…