Where can you find the best movies, best albums, and best new artists of 2008? On the iTunes Store, of course. We’ve collected your favorites — the best-selling audiobooks, Apps, TV shows, songs, music videos, and podcasts — and combined…
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November 24, 2008
Take a free holiday workshop at your local Apple Retail Store
Did you know that you can create beautiful holiday gifts and cards using the photos in your iPhoto library? Make a 2009 calendar. Design your own holiday cards. Create keepsake photo books complete with customized dust jackets. Learn how by taking…
November 6, 2008
MacBook Pro “the best notebook you can buy”
Awarding it an “Excellent” rating of 9.1 (out of 10), Tom Yager asserts that “on the criteria that matter most to me — durability, longevity, flexibility, power efficiency, and ecological impact — I’ve yet to come across a mainstream notebook…
October 30, 2008
App Store Pick of the Week: iDialUDrive
Wouldn’t it be great, if during your long commute to or from the office, you could have iPhone automatically dial a list of numbers—hands free—while you concentrate on driving? That’s the premise of iDialUDrive. Using the low-cost (.99) application, you…
October 21, 2008
iPhone and iPod touch got game
“iPhone and iPod touch owners can download hundreds of games from Apple’s popular App Store,” reports Marc Saltzman (usatoday.com). While some are free, “most games range from .99 to 2.99 and take advantage of the iPhone’s touch-screen, built-in sensors and…
September 10, 2008
NBC returns to the iTunes Store
Apple and NBC Universal today announced the return of NBC programming to the iTunes Store. You’ll find the top 10 NBC network series available immediately for purchase and download with programming from NBC, USA Network, SCI FI Channel, Bravo, Sleuth…
September 5, 2008
Oasis finds creative haven in GarageBand
In his exclusive interview with MusicRadar, Noel Gallagher reveals that “following the ‘four and a half year’ struggle to record Don’t Believe the Truth,” Gallagher and his Oasis bandmates “ditched his elaborate home studio” and took up GarageBand. Using GarageBand,…
August 12, 2008
Twelve reasons to choose a Mac for your college student
“Issues are the last things a kid needs at college and Macs have fewer issues with viruses, malware, and icky stuff like that,” explains Bob LeVitus (chron.com). He recently sent his own daughter off to college with — what else?…
July 16, 2008
At the App Store, “the party has just begun”
It’s the software, maintains BusinessWeek’s Stephen Wildstrom, that “separates the iPhone from the pack.” And, he predicts, “the App Store will turn that gap into a gulf.” That’s because the iPhone “provides a unique combination of an extremely capable device,…
July 11, 2008
iPhone 3G “a more capable version of an already excellent device”
In his review of iPhone 3G, Walt Mossberg (allthingsd.com) considers it “much, much faster” than the original iPhone. In fact, he found that “doing email and surfing the Internet typically was between three and five times as fast.” iPhone 3G…
July 11, 2008
MacBook Air takes laurels in three-way usability competition
Of three ultrathin portables — MacBook Air, Toshiba Portege, and Lenovo ThinkPad — which is the most usable? To find out, Computerworld turned to usability experts and 20 impartial testers. Those testers, David Haskin relates, found MacBook Air the most…
July 8, 2008
Live From Abbey Road: Recording History
You won’t see — or hear — anything else like it on television. And to deliver a series of such uncompromising quality, the seven-person creative team that brings us Live from Abbey Road depends on Final Cut Studio to edit,…
July 2, 2008
6.9 million searches for iPhone in April
“comScore has today released the results of a study into iPhone related searches” during the month of April, reports Davey Winder (itwire.com).The study “reveals that there were 6.9 million searches on related keywords during that period.” Of the 6.9 million…