Mac OS X Elbowing its Way Into Business

accord to Net Applicationsresearch datum , Mac OS X marketplace plowshare is inching its elbow room to 10 % of all computing political platform , currently at 9.93 % . The Net Applications datum comes by tracking the OS through web internet browser action , so it ’s not a unmediated measurements of computers . But it ’s on - target with other grocery store surveys . What ’s driving the vogue ?...

February 2, 2009 · 2 min · 352 words · James Stewart

Review: iPhone football games

Our Verdict I have no idea what will happen at Super Bowl XLIII in Tampa on Sunday . But one scenario that I ’m middling sure will be off the table is this one : When the captains of the Arizona Cardinals and Pittsburgh Steelers meet at midfield for the pregame coin toss , I do not expect one of the Steelers captains to snarl at his Cardinal counterpart , “ Let ’s settle this like adult male … with our iPhones !...

February 1, 2009 · 13 min · 2557 words · Shane Jones

Getting geeky with Twitterrific and AppleScript

I am most definitely a fan of the societal - networking message serviceTwitter . ( explain Twitter ’s appeal is the subject of another history , one I have n’t compose yet . ) But if you use Twitter , and specially if you employ The Iconfactory ’s Twitterrific for Mac (; free with advertizement , $ 15 without ) you might be interested in discovering some of the program ’s hidden feature ....

January 30, 2009 · 7 min · 1313 words · Amber Lynch

Just Mobile Xtand Pro

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict give that more and more people are using a laptop as their primary figurer on the roadandat family , laptop stands have become democratic accessories . These product let you work more ergonomically at a desk by raise your laptop screen to a proper summit while you apply an international keyboard and mouse . By keep on your laptop computer raised off your desk , they also help the computer outride cool by increase flow of air underneath ....

January 30, 2009 · 3 min · 604 words · James Clarke

Review: Smart Dial for iPhone

Our Verdict Whatever inside information , factoid , and minutiae you’re able to rattle off about the people who make up the Contacts stack away on your iPhone , chances are their phone bit are not among the datum that you ’re able to echo at an instant . After all , if your contacts number into the century , that ’s a mountain of digits to keep straight ....

January 27, 2009 · 4 min · 683 words · John Garcia

Inauguration: Help Capture the Moment

Is it inspired artwork , a promotional gimmick , tech run amuck or some combination ? It will be interesting to see — literally — what issue from the CNN - Microsoft plan to make the most recorded second in story when everyone witness the presidential inauguration is invited tosnap and divvy up a photographof the event , which will be stitched together to create a commemorative 3D portrait ....

January 19, 2009 · 2 min · 348 words · Aaron Mosley

Review: Wolfram Mathematica 7

Expert’s Rating Pros Cons Our Verdict For more than 20 geezerhood , there has been a riches of software available in the expert computation mart ; package such as Matlab ( ) , Maple ( ) , and Mathematica ( ) are used by countless scientists every daytime . Driven by a respectable amount of challenger , these ship’s company , along with a few unresolved author feat , have brought some truly brawny cipher surround to the Mac background ....

January 14, 2009 · 6 min · 1104 words · Tyler Bauer

Covering the Expo with an iPhone

As you ’ve probably remark , Macworld’sstaff spent last calendar week cover Macworld Conference & Expo here in San Francisco . In the past tense , covering the show need me to transport around various printouts — my schedule of merging and event ; a list of vendors with booth locations ; and Expo base map — as well as an official show pathfinder and a notepad for jot down down banker’s bill ....

January 13, 2009 · 11 min · 2179 words · Gina Ellis

Expo’s Ask the Editors session

reach that we ’d never try this before at Macworld Expo , none of us were trusted how it would go — the general spirit was that it could either be really fun and interesting , or it could really be , well , neither of those things . So when the charge hour arrived , we reach the mic not know at all what to expect — what would the first query be , something about rumored Macs or iPhones on other electronic connection or the future of Macworld Expo ?...

January 9, 2009 · 4 min · 698 words · Adrian Stout

Macworld Expo and Games

Gaming has had a diminished presence at Macworld Expo in recent years . But that ’s not stopping us from assembling a panel of Mac gaming luminaries for this special Expo edition of the Macworld Podcast . fall in me and assistant editor Chris Holt as we babble out to Bruce Morrison ofFreeverse Software , Ned Coker ofCCP Games , and Lucas Smithen ofTransGaming . We ’re joined by and by in the podcast by David Stephen ofFeral Interactive ....

January 9, 2009 · 2 min · 352 words · Edward Cortez

Apple to Give iMovie Big Update: Rumor

I ’ve heard from reliable seed that Apple will offer a significantupdate to iMovieat next week ’s Macworld . It will largely focus on cyberspace picture in the Cloud for the YouTube generation . I ’ve pick up that iMovie will for the most part ( if not altogether ) be a Web lotion and Apple would proffer its users to “ upload your movies to us and edit out them there ....

December 31, 2008 · 3 min · 539 words · Elizabeth Gonzalez

Baseline 1.4.2

Expert’s Rating Our Verdict One of the most coarse payoff I take heed about from readers — via e-mail or in theMacworld forums — is that their punishing driving are getting full and they ca n’t figure out what ’s conduct up all that infinite . The dim-witted result is to run a programme that examines your gruelling drive and shows you the biggest space - hog offenders . In the past tense , I ’ve recommended GrandPerspective and WhatSize , two fantabulous computer programme that do just that , although using different intro of the data : GrandPerspective creates a ocular representation of the blank each single file on your drive occupies , permit you see , graphically , what ’s taking up the most outer space ; WhatSize rather provides a size - grouped , hierarchical display that looks much like the Finder ’s column view ....

December 30, 2008 · 7 min · 1486 words · Brenda Burke

Making that novel into a real paperback

With December nigh at an ending , I wanted to make unspoilt on a promise I made back in late October when we introduced you to the madness of National Novel Writing Month , in which thou of people essay to write 50,000 words of a novel in the calendar month of November . I participated for the third twelvemonth in a row andcrossed the finish pipeline with a few days to spare ....

December 30, 2008 · 3 min · 632 words · Shannon Taylor