Gear We Love: BlueLounge Jimi gives your iMac a USB port on the front
Macworld With their “nothing but the screen” appearance, Apple’s recent iMac models are marvels of sleek design. The downside to this approach, however, is that if you need to connect peripherals, all...
View ArticleBuying guide: Find the best iPad keyboard
Macworld For serious typing sessions—or if you just can’t get the hang of the iPad’s onscreen keyboard—an external keyboard offers the tactile advantages of real keys without sacrificing the iPad’s...
View ArticleGear We Love: Revo Wireless offers Bluetooth-headphone convenience without...
Macworld At a GlanceExpert's RatingProsConsOur VerdictThe Revo Wireless gives you comfort, a sturdy and attractive design, and the kind of sound quality you don’t usually find in Bluetooth...
View ArticleMarked 2 review: Preview and improve your online writing on the fly
Macworld At a glanceProsConsOur VerdictMany of us here at Macworld are fans of Markdown, a nifty markup language that lets you write for the Web using plain text and a simple formatting syntax. We also...
View ArticleOS X Yosemite public beta: What you need to know
Macworld Back in June, at WWDC, Apple announced the next major version of its OS for Macs, Yosemite (OS X 10.10). Though the official release of Yosemite is slated for “this fall,” the company is...
View ArticleLogViewer for Time Machine review: Find Time Machine info in OS X system logs
Macworld At a glanceProsConsOur VerdictOS X’s built-in Time Machine feature makes backing up your important data a relatively painless process: You just connect a drive to your Mac, tell the OS to use...
View ArticleMaster your windows with Moom and Zooom
Macworld If you’re still fiddling with title bars and thin window edges to move and resize windows, Moom and Zooom can make window management easier and more convenient. In this week’s video, I show...
View ArticleGear We Love: Mountek car mounts make your CD player useful again
Macworld There’s a lot of gear out there for your Apple devices, but how do you know which are worth your time and what’s not worth your money? In our Gear We Love column, Macworld’s editors tell you...
View ArticleWe’ve got the Beats
Macworld In this episode senior editor Dan Frakes joins me to chat about Apple’s advertising strategies, the future of the App Store, Apple’s integration with new acquisition Beats Music, and a little...
View ArticleFolderol review: Add color to your OS X Finder folders
Macworld At a glanceProsConsOur VerdictMavericks’s Finder tags feature offers a number of benefits over the older file and folder labels, but one of the drawbacks of tags is that items are no longer...
View ArticleGear We Love: Anker Quad-Port Wall Charger handles four devices and fits in...
Macworld At a GlanceExpert's RatingProsConsOur VerdictCompact, well-designed power adapter handles up to four devices at a time, and charges iOS and Android devices at full speed.There’s a lot of gear...
View ArticleSmall heads, safe ears: The best headphones for kids
Macworld At a GlanceExpert's RatingProsConsOur VerdictIt’s back-to-school time, and one thing that’s struck me over the past few years is how our kids’ school-supply lists have changed. Sure, they...
View ArticleYou won’t believe what we talk about on this week’s podcast!!!
Macworld Things have been a little quiet in Cupertino in the last week but that doesn’t mean the technology world has stopped spinning. In this week’s podcast, we address issues including iPhone 5...
View ArticleGear We Love: Rickshaw Commuter line takes the mess out of messenger bags
Macworld At a GlanceExpert's RatingProsConsOur VerdictThere’s a lot of gear out there for your Apple devices, but how do you know which are worth your time and what’s not worth your money? In our Gear...
View ArticleGear We Love: Twelve South HiRise holds your display, hides your gear
Macworld At a GlanceExpert's RatingProsConsOur VerdictThere’s a lot of gear out there for your Apple devices, but how do you know which are worth your time and what’s not worth your money? In our Gear...
View ArticleEnable OS X’s Enhanced Dictation for on-the-fly transcription
Macworld OS X’s built-in dictation feature works pretty well, but with a simple setting change, you can enable on-the-fly dictation, even when offline. In this week’s video, we show you...
View ArticleMac Gems: Recovery Partition Creator adds OS X Recovery to any drive
Macworld At a glanceProsConsOur VerdictOne of the best features introduced in Lion (OS X 10.7), and available on every version of OS X since, is OS X Recovery. The OS X installer creates an invisible,...
View ArticleHow to make a bootable OS X 10.10 Yosemite install drive
Macworld Back in the day when we bought OS X on discs, as long as you kept that disc, you always had a bootable installer just in case. Modern, downloadable versions of OS X create a recovery partition...
View ArticleHow to view the ~/Library folder in Mavericks and Yosemite
Macworld Inside your home folder is a Library folder—commonly written in Unix syntax as ~/Library, which means “a folder named Library at the root level of your home folder.” This folder is accessible...
View ArticleHow to make a bootable OS X 10.11 El Capitan installer drive
Macworld When OS X shipped on a DVD a good number of years ago, you always had the convenience of a bootable installer—an OS X installer that could be used to boot your Mac if its own drive was having...
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