Category: Reviews-HowTos

A wise man once sang that time keeps on slippin’ (slippin’, slippin’) into the future. But when you’re at work, it’s crucial to not let time, or expenses, slip through the cracks. OfficeTime is a robust time and expense tracker that scales fr…

Made a movie on your Mac? Aching to get it seen by your friends and family? There a a few ways to get your film out there and seen by the masses, including publishing it to various video hosting sites like YouTube and Vimeo, or compressing it to sha…

Scanned photos are preserved forever, but may need repair work firstUse the sliders under the histogram to set the black and white points and maximaze the tonal range.Old prints and negatives deteriorate with time, especially if they’re kept in damp …

In the last year or so styluses seem to have gone from an afterthought for iPad owners to highly desirable, if still not quite essential. Some of it probably has to do with the growing number of illustration and notetaking apps, but I’ll bet that the t…

Making a movie is one thing, adding flashy graphics is anotheriMovie makes it really easy to create great-looking home-movies in minutes, and that includes giving them a more polished and professional edge. There are several ways to do this, including …

IFTTT is not only a programming acronym for “If this then that,” it is also an online service that allows you to create “recipes” that automate your various social networks to perform functions like sending your posted Instagram photos immediate…

It’s been said that if you’re old enough to have been around the first time a product is released, then you’re probably too old to revisit it. How does this change if the product has been modernized? The Switzerland and Boston based Geneva Lab is a bou…

Yes, I know I’m pretty late in the game here, but I finally got my hands on (well, my hand on) a Magic Mouse and… well, I’m not sure why I’ve waited so long. I was forever using a wireless mouse from a different manufacturer, and it stopped doing the job. And then I was […]

The days of speaker docks like the Pure Contour 100i are probably numbered, even if they’ll continue to be made for a while. In an age of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, it makes less and less sense to limit people to the devices a specific connector format might…

In case you haven’t heard, Mountain Lion is pretty amazing. The streamlined download is the lastest operating system from Apple and, not surprisingly, it doesn’t disappoint. Here are our top favourite new features from the operating system… which is just a sampling of the over two hundred that it has to offer. Whether you’re eligible […]

Both Escort and Cobra have worked to take advantage of smartphones to enhance their respective radar detectors. Escort’s SmartRadar variants offers many of the company’s proven technologies taken from standalone detectors, but in compact, discrete pack…

Design The ZR2440w offers a matte black housing that maintains a professional appearance but without being too bland. The display panel is surrounded by a 0.75-inch bezel, relatively thin for a business display, though build seems a bit thick at 2.4 in…

One thing I’ve discovered in reviewing iPad accessories is that it’s impossible to please everyone. Some people are happy with a portable Bluetooth speaker, others won’t even bother with music unless they have a high-quality stereo. Likewise, some peop…

With Android tablets generally trailing Apple’s iPad by some margin, Google has taken it upon itself to generate momentum for the segment by launching the Nexus 7. As it has with its previous Nexus-branded products, Google has collaborated with an Andr…

(Updated with user feedback) One of the relatively few mistakes I think Apple’s made with the iPad is omitting external storage. It’s probably not a gaffe from their perspective, of course; they charge you far more for a 32 or 64GB upgrade than it actu…

Navigating through Mail can be a hassle, especially if you’re receving upwards of hundreds of emails a day. Getting plenty of email can result in disorganization — but there are plenty of Mail tips that you might not know about. One way to declutter your inbox is to incorporate a badge on the Dock icon […]