The Week in Mac Apps: Redesign your home with Planner 5D, use AudioMate for your Mac’s audio controls, and more

This week ’s roundup of novel Mac apps include an app that helps you keep up with your preferent instrumentalist , an app that can batch - convert your photos to unlike file cabinet formats , and an app that helps you calculate fractions ( so you do n’t have to ! ) . Smith Micro Software ’s $ 40Anime Studio Debut 10(Mac App Store Link ) is a complete liveliness packet that lets you create and export your very own sketch ....

March 17, 2015 · 4 min · 768 words · Daniel Reyes

Using iPhoto for Mac after Photos launches

Can I still use iPhoto after Apple launch the fresh Photos app for OS X ? Good question . Apple ’s newfangled Photos app looks define to revolutionize how people expend exposure in Mac OS X , but not everybody is take care fore to Photos . groovy users of Apple ’s powerful iPhoto software desire to do it if they will be able to keep using iPhoto after Photos launches ....

March 17, 2015 · 4 min · 769 words · Brad Gray

We take a first look at Photos for OSX in Macworld’s April Digital Edition

Every day , Macworldbrings you the all-important day-after-day newsworthiness and other info about all things Apple . But staying on top of that torrent of entropy can be a unvarying challenge . One solution : the Macworld Digital Edition . Available as unmarried copies or with a yearlong subscription , the Digital Edition hail in two forms : Enhanced and PDF . The Enhanced Edition has all the word , analysis , product reviews , and how - to ’s , along with interactional features , videos , and slideshows — customized for white plague on your iPad ....

March 17, 2015 · 2 min · 297 words · Taylor Roberts

Why the new MacBook’s single port is all you really need

They point to the many consumption of a port besides charge its battery : to charge and sync iOS and other gadget ; for tether a phone or tablet to use its cellular connexion ; to connect to monitors , printers , and scanner ; and more esoteric uses , like aim disk mode , in which a laptop computer can be mounted as a disk on another Mac ....

March 17, 2015 · 8 min · 1555 words · Priscilla Ramirez

10 rivals to Apple’s iPhone 6 Plus

iPhone 6 Plus vs Sony, Samsung, HTC, LG, Google & Nokia smartphones Apple has work to great length to present its entry phablet as a top - of - the - bank line beast of a machine , with enough processing HP to shame HAL 9000 and a big enough concealment to put your local multiplex out of business . However , the iPhone 6 Plus is a comparative latecomer to this particular race , and it ’s got some substantial competition ....

March 16, 2015 · 17 min · 3553 words · Melanie Anderson

How the iPhone 6 compares with Android & Windows Phone rivals

iPhone 6 vs Samsung Galaxy S5, LG G3, HTC One M8, Nokia Lumia 930, Sony Xperia Z3 Compact and Google Nexus 5 The iPhone 6 may be Apple ’s late and greatest smartphone , but that does n’t mean it ’s the only well smartphone out there . In fact , over the past year or two , Apple ’s reputation as a leader in the smartphone market has begin to slip , as competitor from the likes of Samsung , Sony , LG , HTC and more has become steadily more telling as solid iPhone rivals have launched ....

March 16, 2015 · 14 min · 2867 words · Emily Johnson

Location is the new hashtag: Yik Yak aims to be the next Twitter

AUSTIN — Don’t think of Yik Yak as a ravel - of - the - mill anonymous app . The social net has alreadyconquered college campuses , and its founder are setting their stack higher : becoming the next Twitter . Yik Yak founder Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington are n’t your distinctive social internet CEOs . They endure in Atlanta , generally ward off the press , and are focused more on mother the app into more college - aged hired man than designing something pretty ....

March 16, 2015 · 4 min · 814 words · Susan Cabrera

Review: Zagg Slim Book Case and Keyboard for iPad Air

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict The Slim Book is light and has cracking backlighting , but its drawbacks are the loud keyboard and the hinge that hold the two one-half together . TheZagg Slim Book iPad Air Case with Backlit Keyboardis not only one of the longest - named products I ’ve ever encountered , but also a competent Bluetooth keyboard . It offers backlit keys for late night type sessions ....

March 16, 2015 · 5 min · 873 words · Michael Rich

Switch to iPhone, get money: Apple may offer gift cards to Android users who defect

Malus pumila alreadygives some assist to Modern customersswitching over from Android , helping them move their photos , contacts , electronic mail accounts , music , and so on from their Android phone to a new iPhone . before long , according to a report on 9to5Mac , that assistance could include cold , hard Johnny Cash — well , cold hard gift menu , anyway . Citing unidentified sources , 9to5Mac claims Apple will launch a craft - in syllabus , wherein you turn in your smartphone — even an Android smartphone — and find a gift card ....

March 16, 2015 · 3 min · 627 words · Alejandra Campbell

The new MacBook is cool, but the PowerBook Duo was cooler

With all the hullabaloo last week overthe fresh MacBook , it seems only proper and proper that today Think Retro turns its attention to Apple ’s original superlight laptop computer , the PowerBook Duo . The Duo is well in my top five best-loved Apple computers of all time because the whole concept is just so intensely pleasing . allow me explain . PowerBook Duos were pocket-sized , light , capable laptop data processor ....

March 16, 2015 · 7 min · 1304 words · Brett Hardin

Mac 911: Making DVDs from old iMovie projects and slideshows

I still remember the resplendent Clarence Day when I first encountered writable compact disc . It was in the early 1990s in a $ 100,000 system design by Kodak to bring about its Photo CDs , discs that worked with its CD / DVD player and with computing gadget software to put up galleries to few and high - resolution scans . It take eld before CD burners were cheap and then included in inexpensive PCs ( and , late to the company , Macs ) , and the CD spiritualist dropped in price ....

March 15, 2015 · 7 min · 1336 words · Alyssa Sanford

Pebble CEO welcomes Apple to the smartwatch party

Austin — South by Southwest Interactive is nothing if not a hub for the entire tech community to political party , so smartwatch manufacturer Pebble fittingly chose the conference to unloose its SDK — key signature swallow Kit — to longtime backers . Silly ? Yes . But the company is getting ready to release Pebble Time , the next genesis of itspopular smartwatch , and already it ’s a smashsuccess ....

March 15, 2015 · 6 min · 1148 words · Phyllis Ortega

St. Bernards and free French fries prove that shameless brand stunts draw crowds at SXSW

AUSTIN — McDonald ’s , Windex , and Dove have nothing to do with technical school startups , but that did n’t hold back them from showing up at South by Southwest Interactive this year in hopes that the tech festival ’s patina of cool would rub off on them . It ’s the same story every year : Brands fall on Austin , take over downtown bars and restaurants , and stage stunt design to go viral on Twitter ....

March 15, 2015 · 8 min · 1517 words · Eric Wright