Category: Reviews-HowTos

With the introduction of the My Book VelociRaptor Duo, Western Digital adds another Thunderbolt-ready model to its growing line of My Book desktop storage devices. The VelociRaptor Duo takes Western Digital’s My Book Thunderbolt Duo ( ) and…

Twelve South’s $80 BookBook case looks awesome—it reminds me of the collection of Encyclopedia Britannica’s from the 1970s my dad still keeps in his office. Although this folio-style case looks stunning, there are some flaws with the case that …

When I first reviewed Geo Walk HD in 2011, my verdict was this: This app is undoubtedly cool, with its interactive globe and world facts, but it is limited. A year and several rounds of app updates later, that verdict can be revised, but only slig…

It’s become a maxim of modern business life: Your most important meeting of the year won’t take place in a conference room, but rather online with all attendees viewing a common computer screen.

It’s impersonal. It’s detached. And it’s often qui…

Hero Academy may have put asynchronous multiplayer games on the iOS map, but Outwitters, a turn-based strategy game by One Man Left, drenches the familiar formula in an absurd level of bubbly effervescence. The charming factions that duke it out i…

When I open iTunes on my MacBook Pro to play music or listen to the radio, I get a popup showing “Sign in to use this computer for automatic downloads.” It asks for my iTunes account credentials. I’ve tried to get rid of this message, but it keep…

Did you upgrade to iOS 6 with the thoughts that you’d have a better mobile experience on your iPad, iPhone, or iPod touch, but didn’t? It’s Maps, isn’t it? Luckily, you can downgrade your device with ease back to iOS 5.1.1, and update again when…

Keyboard shortcuts aren’t just for menu items. TextExpander lets you make “snippets” that expand into larger chunks of text or an image–anything you find yourself typing again and again, you can shorten. TextExpander 4 is $34.95 at www.smiles…

If you’re reading these words, there’s an excellent chance that when you travel, you truck along not only clothes and very small containers filled with shampoo and toothpaste, but also a fair collection of gadgets (and the accessories necessar…

If you thought photo collages were a thing of the past, think again. In reality, they’ve merely gone the way of Polaroids and telephone handsets—they died for awhile, but are coming back to life with major digital mojo. Layout, a photo-editing…

[Editor’s note: Last week, we posted our initial hands-on impressions of Apple’s new EarPods. Now that we’ve had the EarPods for a week, we’ve expanded on those initial impressions for this formal review.]

It’s become de rigueur to des…

VMware has quickly updated its popular Fusion virtualization software to support OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and Microsoft’s Windows 8 preview. Fusion 5 aims to merge the best features of both platforms, while continuing to improve performance over its pre…

iPhones have long been the offenders of waking us up in the middle of night with beeps, buzzes, and bright flashing screens. Fortunately, Apple has found a solution for those sleepless nights (and times when you’d rather just not be bothered) in the…

With iOS 6 — out today! — Apple added a lot of useful features to the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. From Passbook, to the new Maps app, to capturing panoramas in the revamped Camera app. Apple has brought a lot of fit and finish to iOS 6, and we’ll s…

Acclivity’s AccountEdge Pro is the powerful, significantly more feature-rich big brother to the company’s very good entry level business account application, AccountEdge Basic ( ). Both are built on the same double-entry accounting foundation…

I have a new iMac with the newest version of OS X. I recently purchased a Magic Trackpad, and in the new system settings for Mountain Lion, I cannot find the “Double-click to drag a file or folder” option. I do, however, see the three-finger dra…