Category: Reviews-HowTos

With summer break finally here, it’s inevitable you’ll hear the words, “I’m bored” stemming from your kids’ mouths. Whether you’re occupying them on a rainy day, need something for a long car ride, or need a few minutes to get them out of your hair, here are four awesome apps that’ll keep them interested–with an […]

Pixa is the new Mac app that makes image organization smarter than ever before. A must-have piece in the tool belt of every designer, it pays a great deal of attention to the details and to the graphic design work-flow. Overview After giving the app a spin, the first thing we noticed is the care […]

Are digital interactive textbooks and the means to create them finally here?Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and even Apple’s iBooks have been working on moving us away from reading physical books and toward embracing the digital revol…

Ted Landau reports that some people are having difficulties pairing their iPhones with their Bluetooth car audio systems. Here are your options.

After a recent barrage of big releases, the App Store is eerily quiet this week with a short list of new titles, as many developers are updating existing titles to make them shine on the new iPad’s Retina display. While you’re waiting for your current …

After upgrading my MacBook Pro to Lion this past fall, whenever I leave a Finder window open and shut down the computer, the window will appear briefly on restart, but then disappear. This means that I have to reopen all of the Finder windows that I ne…

As apps are getting larger, space on iOS devices is becoming increasingly cramped. Here are several ways to squeeze the most storage possible out of your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.

If you want your deleted files to be really, completely, totally gone, emptying the trash isn’t enough. Chris Breen provides other options.

Angry Birds’ remarkable success has made it an easy target for snide remarks and copycats alike, but it’s been difficult for other creators to successfully mimic its beguilingly appealing formula – and it must be harder still for Rovio to try and exp…

Add Address Book details to your Numbers projects quickly and easilyNumbers isn’t an application you immediately think of when talking about Address Book contacts, but the two work together quite happily. For example, as in this guide, you could be p…

Game on with these little bricks of technologyDon’t get me wrong. iOS games are great. But sometimes all the tapping and dragging leaves us wanting some old-school gaming–moving stuff around and actually interacting with physical objects. Sifteo’s…

Our firm is getting more and more demand for magazine design projects. My wife is a graphic designer and does all of the design and layout in Adobe InDesign on her two Macs running Snow Leopard. However, when I try to open the InDesign files on my new …

Among the new features in the iTunes 10.6, one in particular is good news to anyone with lots of lossless tracks: The ability to convert those tracks at higher bit-rates when syncing to an iPod or iOS device.

For the third-generation iPad, most case makers have been content to tweak existing designs to fit the thickness of the new tablet. The Canvas, by SwitchEasy, is the one of the few exceptions to the rule. Despite the popularity of the original case, Sw…

If you spend a lot of time at the stove, your old iPad could get a new life as a very useful kitchen tool. Here’s how to set it up and what to consider when turning your iPad into a dedicated kitchen tablet.

Maps on iOS isn’t just a pretty face: It’s packed to the gills with useful features. Christian Boyce takes you through eight tips to get the most out of the app.