Lion Tweaks 1.3 lets you tweak hidden Lion settings

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict As impressive as many of the lineament of Lion ( Mac OS X 10.7 ) may be , the new O is not without its flaw . And for some people , many of those flaws are little changes that , jointly , affect the overall experience of using OS X. For example , the fact thatthe drug user - level Library folder is now hide , or that opening newfangled windows has gained some additional — and , some feel , unneeded — vitality ....

September 8, 2011 · 3 min · 437 words · Rebecca Price

Smule’s MadPad makes music out of anything

To day of the month , Smule ’s serve you use your iPad and iPhone as musical instrument ( Ocarina , Leaf Trombone , Magic Piano ) , an auto - correcting microphone ( I Am T - Pain ) , and a karaoke machine ( Glee ) . With Thursday ’s release of MadPad for iPhone ( and MadPad HD for iPad ) , the music - app - focused company creates a new musical genre : It helps you capture existent world noise and reverse those sounds into medicine ....

September 8, 2011 · 2 min · 399 words · Gregory Freeman

Canon Vixia HF M40 camcorder offers superior image quality

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict Sometimes less is more . Take , for example , the Canon Vixia HF M40 camcorder . The camera pluck some feature of speech found in Canon ’s 2010 M - serial camcorders , but the most significant modification is a slightly expectant image detector with considerably fewer pixels . That red ink of pixels provides the camera ’s biggest gain . The photographic camera ’s 1/3 - in CMOS detector uses 1920 - by-1080 pixels to catch video ....

September 7, 2011 · 5 min · 981 words · Brian Garcia

First Look: QuickBooks for Mac 2012

As was report to begin with Wednesday , thelatest version of QuickBooks , Intuit ’s small business finance trailing program , offer up four major raw features and more than fifty other enhancement or refinements . QuickBooks for Mac 2012 is n’t slated to get in until the end of this calendar month , but I had the chance to pass some time with these features , mould a few first impressions of the update ....

September 7, 2011 · 6 min · 1113 words · Alicia Ward

Remains of the Day: ‘1’ is the loneliest album

The Beatles are on iTune — oh , wait . That waslast year . Well , they ’re on iTunesagain . Also , Apple may be planning yet another societal - networking servicing ( because its late ventures have just beengangbusters ) , and the authorities accommodate they did sorta kinda aid calculate for a misplaced iPhone image . The remainder for Tuesday , August 6 , 2011 would like just the fact , ma’am ....

September 6, 2011 · 3 min · 610 words · Sara Smith

The Towson Hack: The mystery of vanishing iTunes credit

Back on November 28 , 2010 , a user named stereocourierstarted a thread on Apple ’s support forums . The post horse claimed that — without his knowledge or consent — someone pass more than $ 50 of his iTunes Store credit on iPhone apps . The substance abuser had no cite batting order link up to his news report ; all the inscrutable purchase depict from his memory mention ....

September 6, 2011 · 17 min · 3498 words · Mark Miller

Macworld’s new Speedmark 7 benchmark suite

Now that the Mac OS has entered the Lion era , its time to bring Macworld ’s overall system performance test rooms , Speedmark , up to appointment . With this up-to-the-minute version , Speedmark 7 , we ’ve updated all of the covering to their current versions , increase files size that some trial utilize , and alter our 3D game trial to a more recent title . One affair that does n’t change is 2....

September 5, 2011 · 10 min · 1961 words · Larry Parks

The Macalope Weekly: Like a hurricane

It ’s more than a hebdomad by and by and we ’re still cleaning up the passel of the storm that rage through our residential district . No , not hurricane Irene , hurricane Steve Jobs Steps Down ( which , like Irene , would make a really pretty name for a girl ) . One learned person has been swept from the social station of Mac users while another take to ramp against the storm ....

September 3, 2011 · 15 min · 3098 words · Joseph Blackburn

Weekly Wrap: Apps aplenty, hardware news, and far fewer resignation stories

This may come as a shock , but somehow , it ’s already September . As you attempt to come to grips with the fact that time keeps fly by faster than a top - of - the - line of products Mac Pro encodes video , let us regale you with our best and brightest history from the retiring week . plunderer alert : This week , no one resigned ....

September 3, 2011 · 3 min · 540 words · Robert Adams

Remains of the Day: Starz struck

U2 ’s frontman puts in a good word for Steve Jobs , Apple let a hard drive of secret data slip through its fingers , and detail on what exactly the crazy folks at Starz turned down . The remainders for Friday , September 2 , 2011 are hire advantage of their last chance to wear snowy before this weekend . Bono Praises Steve Jobs as Generous and ‘ Poetic’(New York Times )...

September 2, 2011 · 3 min · 525 words · Jennifer Williams

Syncplicity expands its cloud storage to the iPad

The cloud - storage serviceSyncplicityhas revamp its iOS app , expanding the antecedently iPhone - only oblation into a iPad - friendly oecumenical version that will let users access their documents from just about any gadget they own . Version 1.2 of the Syncplicity app debuted Thursday in the app store , incline primarily at business concern user who must share documents with multiple colleagues in multiple location while keep them inviolable at the same time ....

September 2, 2011 · 3 min · 435 words · Mr. Ryan White Jr.

Use Skype and GarageBand to make a podcast that sounds great

I ’ve been doing a lot of podcast of late . In the last year I ’ve probably edited and post something like 85 unlike podcast episodes , between my half - metre duties on the Macworld Podcast and the podcasts I do in my personal time . During that time I ’ve learned a whole raft about what to do — and just as significantly , whatnotto do — to make a podcast that go estimable ....

September 2, 2011 · 17 min · 3463 words · Alicia Trujillo

Apple puts Final Cut Studio back on sale

In a somewhat surprising move from the folks in Cupertino , non - linear editor in chief and filmmakers can once again purchase Apple ’s now - outdated Final Cut Studio through the company ’s telesales turn . “ As we ’ve done before with many end - of - life software package merchandise , we have a limited quantity of Final Cut Studio still available through Apple telesales to customer who need them for on-going projects , ” an Apple spokewoman read in a instruction provided toMacworld ....

September 1, 2011 · 2 min · 416 words · Kristen Potter