Macworld-In an eternal quest to become the next big thing in social media,many iOS developers have tried to do for video what Instagram has done for still photography.But this endeavor can get tiresome,and sometimes the impulse to produce ...
Tags: Echograph, Macworld, photography app, Computer Products
When I first encountered the SpiderOak backup-service a few years ago, I found myself imagining that a marvelous alien species had designed it to teach us about their culture. Its a little more explicable these days, even as the company has ...
Tags: datastorage, backup-service, Online Storage, Internet service
With the release of the Backup Plus Portable Drive for Mac,Seagate has reinvented its line of portable hard drives,incorporating a number of desirable features into its new design. Taking technology from its previous Go-Flex line,the ...
Tags: Backup Plus Portable Drive, portable hard drives, Seagate
Macworld-Anyone whos ever been late arriving home or to a meeting(and that would never be me!)will appreciate Twist,a free app by Twist and Shout.This app does one thing very wellit tracks your location and notifies those waiting for you of ...
Macworld - Google Currents, the free news-reading app for iPhone and iPad, is elegant and useful. But the app from Google suffers from a perplexing failure to integrate more fully with Googles RSS-reading service. Like other news-reading ...
Tags: Google, free news-reading app, app for iPhone, app for iPad
Macworld - Reader Nick Hamilton finds himself stuck between old hardware and a new operating system. He writes: I have an older AirPort Express Base Station. I recently installed Mountain Lion and have found that its version of AirPort ...
Tags: Ancient, Airport Base Station, Protection
SkyDrive seemed destined to be another Microsoft also-ran product.Although introduced long before the current wave of cloud-based synchronization and storage services,SkyDrive had a number of frustrating limits,and comprised two separately ...
Tags: SkyDrive, Dropbox, Google Drive, UI
Apple giveth,and Apple taketh away.As it released Mountain Lion through the Mac App Store Wednesday,the company simultaneously removed Lion from the store:You cant find Lion if you search for it,its no longer listed as one of Apples apps in ...
Tags: Apple, pull Lion, Mac App Store
Editors note: The following review is part of MacworldsGemFest 2012 series. Every weekday from mid June through mid August, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a favorite free or low-cost program. Visit the Mac ...
Tags: desktop app, Daypart, iTunes, US
I think it's fair to say that most of us have too much paper in our lives, whether it's business documents, receipts, financial statements, or (my personal weakness) keepsake scraps like menus and ticket stubs. Flatbed scanners are ...
Tags: Doxie Go, Document Scanner, USA, Hardware
When I reviewed Nocss $70 NS200 Aluminum ( Macworld rated 3.5 out of 5 mice ), I found that the Swedish companys penchant for minimalism had resulted in a clean, but somewhat generic, design and that the sound quality, while ...
Tags: USA, Headphone, Nocs NS400, electronic technology
Adobe Prelude CS6, a new application in Adobe Creative Suite's multimedia-oriented Production Premium bundle, is designed to streamline the process of reviewing, logging, ingesting, and adding metadata to tapeless mediavideo footage derived ...
Tags: Adobe, Prelude CS6, US, Applications
In a market where few vendors make dedicated Mac keyboards, much less good ones, Logitech has released its second premium Mac keyboard of the past year. Announced back in May, the companys $80 Wireless Solar Keyboard K760 (officially called ...
Tags: Logitech, Hardware, US, Mac keyboard
Editors note: The following review is part of Macworlds GemFest 2012 series. Every weekday from mid June through mid August, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a favorite free or low-cost program. Visit the Mac ...
Tags: NetUse, Traffic Monitor, Internet, bandwidth
Macworld-iHome's$100 iD9(officially called the iD9 Portable App-friendly Rechargeable Speaker System for iPad/iPhone/iPod,but I'll stick with just iD9)is a portable,rechargeable stereo speaker dock for your iOS devices and iPods.And despite ...
Tags: iD9, Portable App-friendly, Rechargeable Speaker System, metal