KEE’s $30 Slider for iPhone 4/4S is a two-piece hard-shell case, and its pieces come in nine colors each—making a total of 81 possible color combinations. Despite the allure of customizability, however, I was disappointed to find this case’s soft matte finish to be easily scratched and marred, even within the short time that I [...]
Category Archives: Macworld
Remains of the Day: Walk the walk, talk the talk
Posted by Gary on May 17, 2012
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Environmental activists want Apple to clean up its cloud act, Cupertino wants to silence Siri complainers, and a noted screenwriter gets ready to put words in Steve Jobs’s mouth. The remainders for Wednesday, May 16, 2012 are all out of bubblegum. Clean Our Cloud (Greenpeace) The Greenpeace folks are at it again. This time, two [...]
Hands-on with Google Docs’s new research tool
Posted by Gary on May 17, 2012
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Google Docs now offers an in-page research tool to aid writers. Google Docs has unveiled a new research tool meant to help writers streamline their browser-based research, making it easier for them to find and cite the information they need while composing text. The feature, announced Tuesday, appears as an in-page vertical pane on the [...]
Reviewing Creative Suite 6
Posted by Gary on May 16, 2012
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With Adobe’s Creative Suite 6 now widely available, it’s time to assess just what the latest versions of Adobe’s applications bring to creative professionals. And we do exactly that on this episode of the Macworld Podcast, with the help of some Creative Suite experts. I’m joined by Jay Nelson, editor and publisher of Design Tools [...]
Remains of the Day: Crazy like a Foxconn
Posted by Gary on May 16, 2012
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Foxconn’s CEO didn’t say what you think he said, the Supremes shut down Psystar, and more states pile on Apple in the ebook price-fixing case. The remainders for Tuesday, May 15, 2012 are so crazy they’re sane. Foxconn: reports that CEO Terry Gou confirmed the Apple iTV are ‘not accurate’ (update) (The Verge) The other [...]
Quit Facebook without losing the best Facebook features
Posted by Gary on May 16, 2012
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Editor’s Note: The following article is reprinted from PCWorld.com. Almost everyone uses Facebook, but almost everyone agrees that the social network has quite a few problems. Chances are, most Facebook users have encountered some feature or flaw—from overarching privacy concerns to assorted interface annoyances—that made them reconsider their membership in the social network. Nevertheless, Facebook [...]
Organize videos by groups in iTunes
Posted by Gary on May 15, 2012
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In iTunes, there are two ways to categorize your videos: as either Movies or TV Shows. Movies are displayed individually, but TV shows are organized in groups, as they would be if they were episodes in the same show. One anonymous Mac OS X Hints reader takes advantage of this to organize all kinds of [...]
Organize videos by groups in iTunes
Posted by Gary on May 15, 2012
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In iTunes, there are two ways to categorize your videos: as either Movies or TV Shows. Movies are displayed individually, but TV shows are organized in groups, as they would be if they were episodes in the same show. One anonymous Mac OS X Hints reader takes advantage of this to organize all kinds of [...]