iStop Motion for Mac review

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict There ’s a lot to like about the Modern iStopMotion for Mac and the drastic price drop , couple up with its supporting for using Io devices as a camera mean value that more people will be able-bodied to afford to get into this old age - sometime art of stop apparent motion animation and have a lot of sport doing so . Who has n’t draw little fictitious character in the corner of a notepad ’s page and flicked them to animate a short scene ?...

October 9, 2012 · 3 min · 452 words · Caleb Sullivan

Mac classics: Why BBEdit rules

allow me run through a listing of thing that I ’ve recently usedBBEdit ( ) for . 1.I’m continuing to develop my site . But I ’m kind of a locoweed , meaning that every work scrap of CSS and PHP that I write is the consequence of trial and mistake . So I use BBEdit as my code editor program : It lets me edit my site ’s files directly on the server ; it previews everything in place ; and when I ’m about to move on to the next line without mend an unbalanced bracket , the app gently coughs and points , rather than making me feel like an idiot ....

October 9, 2012 · 8 min · 1666 words · Alexander Morgan

Mac Gems: Write 2 offers advanced word-processing features, minimalist interface

Our Verdict The O X text - editor program market is burgeoning , especially with the Second Coming of the Mac App Store and the capability to store documents on iCloud ( and otherwise in the swarm ) . These writing apps range from minimalist text editor in chief with few options to relatively hefty tools that near the feature sets of word processors . MOApps ’ $ 7Write 2(;Mac App Store link ) straddles the line of business between a mere textbook editor and a more - powerful word C....

October 9, 2012 · 5 min · 871 words · Rachel Thompson

The Macalope Daily: Mirror, Mirror

Remember how boooooring the iPhone 5 was ? Sure you do ! It was in all the paper ! The iPhone 5 was altogether dullsville , man , and Apple is out of idea ! Better just fire Tim Cook , shut the company down , and give the money back to investors . Bor . Ing . Well , you might want to have a neck dyad ready , because you ’re about to get whiplash ....

October 9, 2012 · 4 min · 744 words · Mr. Sean Thompson

Belkin @TV Plus review

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict While Belkin should be applauded for inscribe a market place dominated by Slingbox , @TV Plus feel very much like a piece of work in progress , a bright starting signal that still has some way to go . If Belkin can build on this fairly solid if a lilliputian shaky groundwork they should have a hit on their hands . @TV PlusfromBelkinis a twist for look out your TV , planet or cable set - top - loge anywhere in the humankind via your iOS twist , Android pad of paper , Mac or PC and a dedicated app or user interface ....

October 8, 2012 · 3 min · 439 words · Emily Knapp

Getting started with Messages

When OS go Mountain Lion first look , many old stager iChat drug user fired up the novel Messages chat programme , poked around a bit , and then discontinue it in desperation . Eventually , some of us relaunched it and began to slog around in it , figuring out how to expend the raw app to do what we wanted to do , but still we felt a bit preoccupied ....

October 8, 2012 · 8 min · 1587 words · Brittany Gonzalez

How to back up a Mac using Time Machine

Intro file can be lost when your Mac ’s internal entrepot develops a shift , gets deprave , or if you accidentally trash a file . OS X ’s Time Machine feature offers protection against such events by backing up new and qualify files once an hour . All you need to offer is an external toilsome campaign . It wo n’t help recover file that are created and trashed within that interval , but multiple variant of other file cabinet on your Mac are preserved while there ’s free space available ....

October 8, 2012 · 7 min · 1348 words · Nancy Morales

How to create a ringtone on your iPhone with GarageBand

Applerecently releasedGarageBand 1.3 for iOS . Among its newfangled features are the ability to import songs from your Music library and — on the iPhone 4S , iPad 2 , and models newer than those two — to dally or record with GarageBand while using other apps . But one of those new feature film emphatically requires iOS 6 : the power to create and spare custom ringtones for your iPhone or iPadon those machine ....

October 8, 2012 · 3 min · 632 words · Michael Sullivan

The Macalope Daily: In-depth analysis

Get quick to scream , because it ’s another example of “ Yes , this guy gets pay for this and he believably gets make up a wad . ” Writing for Barrons , Tiernan Ray tells the tale of the hedge investment firm director who thinksthe iPhone 5 “ feel like a toy dog ” and investor should debar Apple(tip o ’ the antlers toTay Bass ) . Noted hedgie …...

October 8, 2012 · 4 min · 680 words · Timothy Green

Get your scanner to work with Photoshop CS6

Using a desktop scanner to bring printed materials into Adobe Photoshop is as sure-enough as Photoshop itself . In fact , one of the cause Photoshop became the de facto image editor program is that Adobe licence it to be bundle up with scanners throughout the late 1980s and early 1990s when designers and publisher were buy their first scanners . In those days , if you grease one’s palms a scanner , you start out Photoshop !...

October 7, 2012 · 7 min · 1380 words · Tamara Boyd

How to extract voice and text messages from an iPhone

Reader Amy Campbell has all the right reasons for extracting data from an iPhone . She compose : A Mac - using congeneric recently passed off , and there are some samarium and voicemail messages on her phone that we ’d care to have copies of . I do n’t see any way to extract those things . Is this potential ? It is , and if you have access to her Mac , you’re able to do well still ....

October 7, 2012 · 3 min · 548 words · Henry Jackson

How to share documents with iCloud

The unexampled ambition in computation is keep all of your single file in “ the cloud , ” on remote servers that you’re able to access from anywhere at any time . Apple ’s swarm - found syncing and storage service of process , iCloud , debut in June 2011 . Still , only since the release of OS X Mountain Lion that enough diligence have begin to suffer iCloud document synchronise for this characteristic to be useful ....

October 7, 2012 · 7 min · 1416 words · Raven Lambert

The Macalope Weekly: Issues

Sometimes the affair mass spell about Apple reveal more about themselves than they do about Apple . Or anything else for that matter . The Macalope will front at two pundits who must be talk about something else , because what they ’re writing about Apple does n’t make a lick of sensory faculty . And on the anniversary of Steve Jobs ’s death , maybe it ’s better to just say no ....

October 6, 2012 · 13 min · 2662 words · Tracy Smith