All about laptops

What with all the uproar about the iPhone 3GS and just as much hub ( though a little less bub ) regarding Snow Leopard , it ’s easy to forget that Apple opened the WWDC keynote with public lecture of an update laptop computer line . If Apple ’s willing to devote that variety of keynote real demesne to the depicted object , the least we can do is spend a podcast talk about it ....

July 1, 2009 · 2 min · 359 words · Jason Mills

Canon EOS Rebel T1i

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict Canon has a fair simple organisation for naming its various digital individual - lense unconditioned reflex ( SLR ) cameras . There are cameras that are name with a exclusive - digit bit , like the 1DS and 5D ( the EOS 5D Mark II [ ] , to be precise ) ; these stage the upper closing of the intersection line . Then there are the cameras name with a two - finger act , such as the 50D ; these photographic camera fill the mid - range of Canon ’s SLR line ....

June 30, 2009 · 8 min · 1687 words · Kimberly Wright

GemFest 2009: All-time favorite affordable software

With yesterday ’s revaluation of Plex , we wrap up our GemFest 2009 . If you ’re interested , you’re able to see a terminated leaning of the applications in our GemFest . you could also see a complete listing of these Gems in the August 2009 issue ofMacworld . Our regular , twice - a - week Mac Gems column will resume on Thursday . We ’ve reviewed century of low-cost program program over the year , from tools with just a few key feature article to complex software that can compete with more - expensive program ....

June 29, 2009 · 3 min · 619 words · David Nunez

Plex media center software competes with Front Row

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict It ’s difficult to retrieve a video cataloguing and playback lotion that rival the redoubtable coupling of iTunes and Front Row . But now there’sPlex , a medium centre of attention for Mac OS X that ’s capable of catalog and playing back every major video formatting out there , and it works admirably with the Apple Remote to boot . Unlike iTunes , Plex does n’t make a copy of your medium files and attract them into its own organize hierarchy , opting instead to have you hold the booklet structure of your medium ....

June 28, 2009 · 5 min · 1036 words · Stephanie Lambert

SousChef: iTunes-like recipe organizer

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict As recipe collection moves out of the wag box and into the computer , there has emerged a little cell of Mac program designed to avail you find , categorize , share , show , and cook your food for thought . SousChef1.2 is a summary program with an iTunes - RSS feed sensibility that can help you get your repast off to a good starting ....

June 27, 2009 · 7 min · 1329 words · Walter Phillips

Cooliris helps showcase photos and videos

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Scrolling and clicking on Next links through tons of Web Thomas Nelson Page is not how I desire to hunt down an elusive video or photograph . gratefully , there’sCooliris , a top-notch - handy internet browser plug - in that lets you scope out images and video content in a singular way , displaying everything in a full - cover , horizontally boom , interactional 3 - D “ wall ” view ....

June 26, 2009 · 3 min · 537 words · Lisa Miller

Why I’m not upgrading to an iPhone 3GS

Elswhere on the site , we ’ve posted feedback from reader on the young iPhone 3GS , some of whom are upgrading to the new phone and some who are n’t . Put me in the “ are n’t ” group . I have it away my iPhone 3 G and I ’m certain the 3GS is a courteous pace up , but I ’m flummox with what I have for now ....

June 26, 2009 · 3 min · 619 words · Lauren Best

VideoDrive makes video file conversions easy

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict If you buy or let movies from the iTunes Store , you ’re already using iTunes as your preferred media organizer and player , specially if iTunes is act as the gateway to an iPod , iPhone , or Apple television receiver . But iTunes is n’t the only source for digital TV — perhaps , for instance , you want to make your DVD aggregation useable on your Apple TV ....

June 25, 2009 · 3 min · 449 words · Joseph Mccoy

Tangerine creates iTunes playlists based on tempo

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict The playlist , to the euphony lover , is one of the greatest innovations since the volume node , thanks to the relaxation of copying digital music . alternatively of spending hours craft the staring mix tape , you could chop-chop create a playlist on the fly in iTunes . Whether you want medicine for drive , running , soothing your broken heart , or paying tribute to the gravid haircloth metallic element bands of all time , if you ’ve get the vocal , create a suitable play list is easy ....

June 24, 2009 · 3 min · 535 words · Charles Graves

PulpMotion creates professional multimedia presentations

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict Apple ’s iPhoto slideshow presentations are nice — if you ’re not suffering from Ken Burns issue burnout . Keynote gives you more transitions and provides theme that work well for corporate presentation . But if you ’re wait to create slideshows that are more piquant , fun , and eye catching , PulpMotionproduces professional multimedia presentment that are anything but average . PulpMotion utilise motion themes to add character to slideshows , get you create a more visually exhilarating case for your photos and videos ....

June 23, 2009 · 3 min · 497 words · Rebecca Mcmillan

Shape Collage turns a collection of photos into creative collages

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict You ’ve probably made a few exposure collages in your life , whether you repose out picture with the pure amount of messy noise in a photo album or magnetise a group on your fridge . But in the digital world , there ’s not a circumstances out there that lets Mac exploiter do the deed easily . I ’ve painstakingly used Photoshop , Pages , and even iWeb to make collages , but nothing equate to the quickness and ease ofShape Collage ....

June 22, 2009 · 3 min · 531 words · Phillip Ellis

Will Apple Learn from Steve Jobs’ Second Close Call?

There seem to be two school of cerebration about Steve Jobs : One restrain that Apple has proved itself adequate to of living without him . The other articulate that Jobs is returning , apparently with a dapper novel liver , just in metre . Both assessment are right . I do n’t call up Apple really proved very much during the six month he ’s been gone , but the experience has nevertheless strengthen the troupe ....

June 22, 2009 · 3 min · 594 words · Calvin Clay

Web2 Delight lets you easily download videos from YouTube

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict As great as TV sharing vane sites like YouTube are , they often do n’t allow you to directly download the videos on their site . Web2 Delightdoesn’t just make this possible ; it makes the whole cognitive operation positively painless . To download a exposure or video from any of the Web site listed in Web2 Delight ’s sidebar ( YouTube , Veoh , blip.tv , Dailymotion , Flickr , Picasa , Webshots , and Photobucket ) , all you have to do is select the site you need in the sidebar and run a search ....

June 21, 2009 · 3 min · 503 words · George Hodge