iPod nano review

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict To be dependable , we ’re only beaming to see the nano get back on cut after the jolly baffling experiment with the 2010 theoretical account . It ’s still a bit pricey , and we count on Apple really want a exemplar that hits the £ 99.99 fool , but the larger concealment and A-one - slimline blueprint return the iPod nano to its glory Day and exit most of its competitor looking like scrap metallic element ....

October 19, 2012 · 4 min · 785 words · Danny Stewart DDS

Review: Kingdom Rush for iOS brings fantasy and fun to tower defense gaming

Our Verdict “ It ’s killing time ! ” shouts the small , faceless barbarian I ’ve just hired to defend my land . lovely , distinctive , and exceptionally charming , the boor rising slope rapidly became one of my favorite features ofKingdom Rush , a tug defence mechanism scheme secret plan for the iPhone , iPad , and iPod Touch . With a deft hand , app developer Armor Games offer a strikingly immersive , challenging , and humorous secret plan that is somehow more than the sum of its persona ....

October 19, 2012 · 4 min · 683 words · Ashley Ferguson

Review: Produce high-res GIFs with Echograph for iOS

Our Verdict In an eternal seeking to become the next big thing in societal medium , many iOS developers have endeavor to do for TV what Instagram has done for still picture taking . But this endeavor can get tiresome , and sometimes producing mellow - timber termination trump the desire to produce shareable contentedness . Echograph , a picture taking app for the iPad 2 and later , which allows you to make animated GIFs and MPEG 4 video from still photos , might seem like another Cinemagram ( and in theory , it is ) , but Echograph severalize itself as a more professionally prepared program ....

October 19, 2012 · 4 min · 783 words · Ann Owens

The Macalope Daily: Bad impression

Does it ever strike you as odd that the Macalope can ascertain clean heart to charge his antler into every day ? How is it that fairly much every sidereal day of the week there is someone who is eager to step up ( down ? ) and write something stunned about Apple ? And how do these people think it reflects on them ? The Macalope does n’t have an solvent , and he ’s not trusted he wants to look a gift Equus caballus in the rima oris ....

October 19, 2012 · 5 min · 875 words · Matthew Chen

The Week in iOS Apps: The world is mine

This week ’s solicitation of apps include new way to navigate the populace — as well as new options for destroying the planet in your family moving picture . Already this calendar week , we tell you about how MyFitnessPal had hit the 30 - million user mark , we gave you a look at leaked screenshots for theforthcoming Google Maps app , and we bid a review of theWriteUp text - editingapp ....

October 19, 2012 · 5 min · 1006 words · Antonio Mejia

Apple vs Samsung: Apple loses UK appeal, must run pro-Samsung adverts

Apple has lost its appeal against a UK ruling that Samsung did not replicate its iPad , and will have to take this publicly in a series of adverts . Bizarrely , part of Judge Birss ’ reasoning was that the iPad is “ nerveless ” but Samsung tablet , while “ very , very similar ” when viewed from the front , “ are not as cool ” . He added that they do not incarnate Apple ’s common sense of “ utmost simple mindedness ” ....

October 18, 2012 · 3 min · 590 words · Noah Young

Create a music video with iMovie ’11

Perhaps you or a musician booster have a birdcall , and you need a music video to help push it and your band . Or mayhap your son or daughter want to create a television for a song they wrote and read . The dependable intelligence is , you do n’t need a mega - budget : just some creativity , a caliber television camera , friends and family line ( for likely extra ) , andiMovie ’ 11to edit your chef-d’oeuvre ....

October 18, 2012 · 5 min · 1020 words · Tanya Anderson

File formats, file editing, and podcasts

This week I look at a bit of interrogative sentence about rive audio files , which file format to apply for ripping CD , and updating podcasts , plus portion out a steer for alive performing artist who expend music in their iTunes libraries . Q : I have tracks on my iPod of complete concert . The tracks can last several time of day as one Song dynasty . Can I insert breaks so I can distinguish the songs as case-by-case course alternatively of one foresighted one ?...

October 18, 2012 · 5 min · 955 words · Nathan Lewis

Java update is Apple’s latest attempt to keep risky Java off Macs

Oracle updated Java on Tuesday 16 October 2012 and Apple keep abreast suit a twenty-four hours later . Apple’sJava for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 11is the a la mode in its efforts directed at go on Java off Macs . It remind us of Apple ’s desire to keep Flash of the iPad and iPhone ( and since Lion , the Mac ) and as with Flash , Apple ’s abstract thought appear to be that Java is too much of a surety risk ....

October 18, 2012 · 3 min · 474 words · Barbara Peterson

Review: Fade In professional screenwriting software is a class act

Our Verdict Fade In is a fully featured professional screenwriting app for Mac OS X , Windows , and Linux , and is price affordably . It has all the features you ’d get in the more expensive apps , such asFinal DraftandMovie Magic Screenwriter , and there ’s even free and paid iPhone , iPad , andAndroid appsavailable . As an independent filmmaker for many years who has written screenplays in AppleWorks , Word , Movie Magic Screenwriter and , for over a decennium now , Final Draft ....

October 18, 2012 · 4 min · 790 words · Nathan Wright

Review: Persona is limited, values stereotypes over substance

Our Verdict Creating compelling characters for a work of fiction is n’t an easy undertaking : They have to be recognizable as people and avoid the ambuscade of cliché . It ’s sluttish to see how a writer would receive a dick like Mariner Software’sPersona , which aim to help make such a task easier . Unfortunately , while I had high promise for the app , its aim pass away far all-embracing of the mark , turning a creative exercise into a rote one , pregnant with trouble ....

October 18, 2012 · 7 min · 1409 words · Amanda Chavez

Six of the rarest Macs

If you ’re a longtime fan of the Macintosh chopine , chance are you are a bit of a collector and a historiographer . away from their being endearing machines that pull in user loyalty , Macs continue their utility far longer than most PCs , promote hoi polloi to hang on to them . Who among you does n’t have an old Mac in your closet ? It may be prison term to pay your closet a visit , because that car gathering junk beside your honest-to-goodness ski charge may represent one of the last surviving examples of a rare strain of Macintosh ....

October 18, 2012 · 6 min · 1270 words · Benjamin Garrison

The Macalope Daily: Won’t stop believing

We all acknowledge denial is not a river in Egypt , but has anyone checked to see if it ’s a river in Canada ? write for IT World Canada , Tim Collins brings us“10 upstanding reasons RIM will make a comeback”(tip oxygen ’ the antlers toThe Loop ) . Oh , Tim , honey . Do n’t . I ’m the only diehard in my office who is still sporting a Blackberry ....

October 18, 2012 · 4 min · 786 words · Emma Johns