Macs and games haven’t been exactly the best of friends. But if you’re shunning games just because your desktop is a Mac, you’re missing out on a lot. Developers have seen the wisdom of porting their games to Apple’s computers and phones. Now, Triple A games take their place along the indies so your MacBook…
Physics geeks this one’s for you! The “Perfect Balance: Lost Trials†Game application for the iPhone involves puzzling situations where shapes must be placed on geometric objects so that they do not fall off of the screen. An engineered gravity is in place, and triangles, circles, squares, and other strange non-symmetrical shapes are picked up…
One of the best features of Apple to date is iMessage. Apple’s ecosystem allows for sending and receiving messages across all your Apple devices through iMessage. What’s more, you get to sync all of your messages on these devices as long as you have an internet connection. With iMessage, you get to not only send…
Unlike my husband, who is the kind of cook that eschews cookbooks, I like to follow recipes. I’m a baker, so it’s in my nature to painstakingly weigh and measure everything that goes into a dish. Which is why I practically jumped on HeadCook, a recipe management app that lets you do everything from creating…
The home directory is a familiar place for macOS users. But there are some secrets lurking just below the surface. If you run ls -a on your home directory, you’ll discover a pile of hidden files and directories with dot prefixes. What do these hidden files do anyway? What are hidden files in the macOS home…
Dockables is a cool little freeware application, or series of applications I guess, that allow you to perform simple, but commonly used tasks, directly from your dock. You just drag the task you want (for example shutting down your mac, or hiding all of your open windows) into the dock. Click on it when you…
Apple’s newest iPad goes on sale today and what better way to celebrate its retail debut than a special giveaway exclusively for Apple Gazette readers? To celebrate the iPad 2’s release, we’re giving away two 30 GB SugarSync accounts! SugarSync uses the cloud to sync and backup your important documents such as photos, music, videos…
On Tuesday, Apple released a minor update to iPhoto and a signifigent update to OSX in version 10.4.9. The iPhoto update addresses issues associated with EXIF data compatibility and Photocasting. While the OSX update covers the following: The 10.4.9 Update is recommended for PowerPC and Intel-based Mac computers currently running Mac OS X Tiger version…
Designing documents in Word can be a mix of incredibly easy and painfully difficult. Certain tasks are painless, while moving images around a document is a minefield of unexpected consequences. Of course, Microsoft apps are far from the darlings of the Apple ecosystem. Yet with their prevalence in the workaday world, many Mac users are…
Some young geek decided to go the extra mile to propose to his girl, and he created this awesome iPhone parody ad/marriage proposal. It’s very well thought out, and I think it’s great. If you’re wondering…she said “yes” (really – how could she not? That took a lot of work) 😛
Yesterday evening, Apple sent out an email letting .Mac subscribers know the details of the new features of their .Mac accounts. In addition to the new .Mac Web Gallery for iLife ’08 users, and the 10 gig storage upgrades, .Mac now features the following enhancements: More storage for trial members. To enhance your .Mac trial…
Bigger might be better, but you wouldn’t know it from looking at Mac hard drives. Thanks to expensive SSDs, the base storage for a new Mac is now only 128 GB, and expanded internal storage can be ludicrously expensive. To help you deal with this reality, macOS Sierra includes features to help save disk space. As part…
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