Mac Apps
Safari 6: Delete to go Backwards
Previous to Safari 6, you could hit the Delete key to act as a back button. For some reason, when
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Mac OS X
Make The Most Of Spotlight
Spotlight can be a very useful tool but it can be a little daunting for a beginner. Simple math equations, file searches, launch applications; it can all be done from Spotlight. To get started, either click the magnifying glass in the top right hand corner of your screen or push Command+Space on your keyboard.
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Playing YouTube Videos in VLC
For this week’s quick tip, we’ll explore one of VLC’s more “hidden” features. More specifically, you’ll learn how to play YouTube videos in said media player. This is quite simple and involves only a few steps.
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Multitasking Probably Isn’t Killing Your iPhone’s Battery
Recently one of our iPhone 3GS units began needing to be recharged before the end of the day. Quite unusual given that we were only sending a handful of text messages a day from that phone and hadn’t taken any phone calls on the day we noticed the problem.
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It’s All About Options and Preferences
I’m not a keyboard shortcut junkie. I use cut, copy, and paste all the time but most others escape me just when I need them. Here are a few though that I’ve been using a lot lately.
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Mac OS X
Lost Hard drive Space?
Where is my space going? I don’t know what is taking up my hard drive, please help. I have tons of “Other,” how do I delete it? My hard drive is full and I can’t find what is using it. We see these questions all the time on the forums.
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Mac OS X
Basic Mac Troubleshooting
While Macs tend to be very reliable and require little maintenance things can sometimes go awry. This guide aims to
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Software
Review: Sparrow
A shiny new Mail client for OS X has been making the rounds recently — Sparrow for Mac. Sparrow first caught
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Predictions
Apple, Music and iTunes
If you ask someone what has made Apple so successful in the first decade of this century, you may get
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Mac OS X
Review: Dropbox Part 1
Many Mac users are increasingly looking for easy ways to sync, share, and back-up important files in the cloud. Luckily,
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Software
Review: Things – a stylish task management app for OS X
Things, a task-management application for OS X, debuted this year at Macworld after a lengthy public beta. Despite being Cultured
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iPhone
iTunes Movie Rentals and device syncing
So, before I left San Francisco, I rented Pirates of the Caribbean 3 to watch on the flight and I
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More Mac games at the Expo, Part 3
This is the final Mac games post of my 3-part series (read parts 1 and 2). There’s a whole bunch of companies makings games for the Mac who were demoing products at Macworld 08, and I wanted to mention just a few more.
Ambrosia is soon to release a really great-looking game called Aquaria that was described as an “ethereal action/adventure underwater fantasy game.” A guy not employed by Ambrosia had logged so many hours on their demo this week that they let him show me the game. It looked gorgeous. You play as a mermaid trying to reunite her people, who are scattered across what looks like a vast system of underwater caves. Can’t wait to play this game. Ambrosia is also putting out Multiwinia, a sequel to Darwinia, later this year.
Continue ReadingMore Mac games at the Expo, Part 2
I’m very glad EA has returned to releasing games for the Mac, because they have some of the coolest titles that are available on the platform. I already discussed Spore at length, so I’ll concentrate on a few of their other games that are demoing at Macworld 08.
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Software
The Washington Post and the news on the net
If you haven’t ever seen any of the short videos in the onBeing section of WashingtonPost.com, you should do yourself a favor and check them out. They are incredibly funny and profound, yet the idea is simple: People from the Washington D.C. area talking on the subject of being themselves.
The web arm of The Washington Post is one of the most innovative news organs out there. Rob Curley is head of the “skunkworks” team that conceives and builds the newspaper’s creative web presence. He gave a presentation on Thursday at Macworld in which he described himself and his team as “Mac nerds from Kansas trying to save a dying industry from the Internet.” He sees that salvation coming from local and even hyper-local news delivered through a variety of inventive web tools.
Continue ReadingMore Mac games at the Expo, Part 1
I promised more coverage of the game offerings here at Macworld 08, and I’m delivering. This is going to be a three-part series of blogs detailing the plans that various companies have for games on the Mac in 2008.
I’m going to start with Aspyr. You may remember from my last post on Mac games at the Expo that they specialize in porting games from the PC to the Mac. They’ve got a huge year coming up, as their new releases are all big gaming franchises being made available for the first time on the Mac.
Continue ReadingThursday’s Best of the Booths rundown
Chris and I happened by the never-ending table of MacBook Airs and I snapped a few photos of it for you to enjoy. Enjoy.
There’s a lot more pictures of Expo booths after the jump.
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Mac Games
Make Your Own Mac Games
Macworld Senior Editor Peter Cohen gave a presentation at MacWorld Expo today providing resources for Mac users to learn how to make their own games. The sites that he suggested were mostly for the creation of simple games but provided some options for more advanced users as well.
Here are the five sites that Cohen suggested would be good for guys (or gals) interested in making their own Mac games:
Continue ReadingDavid Pogue at the O’Reilly Media booth
You never know what you’ll see as you cruise the show floor. I noticed a fairly large crowd around the
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Mac Games
Quote of the Day
I just walked past a couple of guys talking near the presentation rooms at Moscone West and overheard one say
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Photography
A few digital photography tips
I am an atrocious photographer, so I thought I’d attend a couple digital photography sessions and learn a few things.
Continue ReadingHow to keep your Mac running smooth
By far the best and most useful session I attended today at the Users Conference was “Running Your Mac Lean, Clean, and Mean” by Dave Hamilton. He presented his qualifications as follows:
• Mac Observer – 9 years
• Mac Geek Gab Podcast – almost 3 years
• Geek … forever!
Macworld 2008
Office: mac 2008
As I sit in the Microsoft Blogger Lounge, I thought it would be appropriate to spend a minute to give
Continue ReadingThe Mac-powered digital studio
The John Lennon Educational Tour Bus made a stop at Macworld Expo 08 and offered tours, plenty of digital music equipment to play with, and a very helpful guy named Nick to talk about their amazing digital studio setup.
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Macworld 2008
Girl Gamers at MacWorld
The first presentation of the Users Conference that I attended was this morning’s Vision Track presentation on the relationship between Web 2.0 and e-Learning. One of the things that speaker Nick Floro talked about was that educators can use gaming, especially interactive gaming platforms such as Second Life, to engage students who are used to dividing their attention amongst multiple things at once. (He explained how you can create classrooms in Second Life and use them to present video materials in a sort of online virtual interactive classroom).
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