To help you with your holiday shopping, we share our own tech-centric gift lists—both what we want and what we’ll wrap up for the ones we love.
For struggling musicians, the
fast-track to superstardom is no longer steady rotation on a popular
radio station or an opening-act slot on the next Coldplay tour. Look no further than the iTunes App Store.
Adobe wants you to assume it’s a must-buy upgrade. Depending on how you use Photoshop, though, that may not be true. We give you the unvarnished truth about the latest iteration of the world’s most well-known app.
Special Edition iPods were all the rage a few years ago. Seemed like new iPods were being introduced every other week celebrating a celebrity or movie. Unfortunately, it's going to take more than some laser etching to impress the Mac|Life staff. So we've dreamed up a few iPods we'd be proud to plug our headphones into.The holidays are officially upon us. You're probably busy shopping
for presents, selecting large pieces of meat, and cooking delicious
"test" pies to make sure your recipe will be a winner when the family
arrives.
Take breather, while you were fretting over whether
to serve cranberry sauce or sweet potatoes--we suggest both--we
continued to bring you the best Apple articles in the known Universe.
Features
- How to Survive the 17 Worst Mac Disasters - Even the best machines have problems. Eradicate those gremlins with our handy-dandy guide.
- The 5 Best -- and 5 Worst -- Apple Laptops of All Time, Ever! - A history lesson for noobs. A walk down memory lane for us old timers.
- How Pantone's Color Expert Colors Your World - Brown is the new black. No really, it is.
How-Tos
- Create Custom iPhone Ringtones - Finally make those A*Teens ringtones you've been dreaming of.
- Conquer the iTunes Smart Playlist - Tame your unwieldy iTunes library with smart playlists.
- Take Better Product Photos, Become an eBay Millionaire - Who wants to be a millionaire? Yeah, thats what we thought.
Reviews
- PhotoCalc - For all the shutterbugs out there.
- Kensington SlimBlade Presenter Mouse - It's for presentations, it doesn't give out presents.
- OmniFocus for iPhone - Organize your life.
We spoke with EA’s main iPhone boss, Travis Boatman, Vice President of
Worldwide Studios, for the straight dish on his company’s iPhone
development efforts. EA has already partnered with Apple to deliver
games to the clickwheel iPod, but what do the touch-feely iPhone and
iPod touch offer game developers?
Macs are pretty reliable computers, but that doesn’t mean
they’re not vulnerable to user error, accidents, and, in some cases, just plain stupidity. We compile a list of the most common “uh-oh” moments on a Mac and show you how to make them all better--and prevent them from happening in the future.