Ringtones are a great way to make your iPhone stand out from the crowd. Whether you want a custom ringtone to distinguish your phone from others when it rings, or if you want a different song for each person in your favorites list; custom ringtones are great. What’s not great is Apple expecting you to […]
Apple might make Garageband a freemium standard
Apple might make Garageband a freemium standard (via The Inquirer) GADGET DESIGNER Apple might be making its Garageband app available by default on iOS. Mac site Macrumours noticed the change to Apple’s list of built-in apps for the iPhone 5S and was first to spot Garageband. “Garageband is free on the App Store for…
GarageBand for iPad
Apple has just released an iPad version of the popular music software Garageband. At first glance, it looks just like its desktop counterpart but it’s actually much easier to control and has a few added bonuses. In my humble opinion, it’s a great app to own whether you are a musician or an average iPad […]
How to Edit Audio Files with Garageband
This is a next new tutorial in our Garageband tutorial series. You can read the first tutorials here and here. Need to remove some background noise, mistakes or unneeded fillers from your audio files? Perhaps you want to clean up a podcast or conference call or a song you’ve just recorded. Well then I highly […]
How to Write a Song Using Garageband Loops
We all know that Garageband contains hundreds of loops that we can use to create “original” music. Many of us, however, take them for granted and don’t realize how quick and easy it is to create a professional-sounding song. As a home-recording application, Garageband is quite underrated and, in my humble opinion, can and should […]
How to Use Garageband for Sing-a-long
Need to brush up on your singing or guitar playing? Too embarrassed to sing karaoke in front of a live audience? Is Rock Band not stimulating enough for you? Here’s a little solution that might do the trick. Using Garageband, there’s a way to reproduce popular songs. It has the capability to remove the individual […]
iLife ’11 – Must Buy, or Do You Care?
It’s funny how two people can have completely different reactions to the same thing. I watched the big press event yesterday live, with my wife popping into my home office here and there to check things out. I caught myself dozing off a bit while iLife ’11 was being introduced, mostly because I rarely use […]
Back to the Mac Event: Wrapup
So what happened at today’s Back to the Mac event? Here are the deets, provided in a convenient list form. Looking for commentary? It’s coming soon. iLife ’11 Introduced – Free with every new Mac, $49 retail. Available Now. iPhoto ’11 Full screen display for all features New Slideshow themes Album view very similar to […]
Audio HiJack Pro – Record Anything
Last week I talked about Pulsar, a program that lets you listen to satellite radio via your desktop, without having to log into a clunky web interface. Turns out that Rogue Amoeba makes a lot of products, including Audio Hijack Pro, so I sent off an e-mail, and they sent me a free license so […]
Apple Updates Mini, Pro, iMac, and More!
Today Apple updated the Mac Mini, Mac Pro, iMac, Airport Extreme, and Time Capsule. There are no real cosmetic changes, but everything is a little greener, and a little more powerful. It’s the most publicity the Mac Mini has received from Apple in a LONG time… Apple® today announced updates to its iMac® and Mac® […]
Apple issues update to Garageband 09
Apple has issued an update for GarageBand just a few days after the product was released. The 5.0.1 update is a 26.7 MB download available from your Software Update. It offers stability improvements and fixes some issues with downloads from the “Learn to Play Lessons Store”.
iLife ’09 Ships Tomorrow
Apple issued a press release this morning announcing that iLife ’09 would begin shipping on Tuesday, January 27th, 2009. The software package represents a major upgrade to Apple’s premiere suite of “life” applications including iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, and Garageband. The updated iLife suite was a major focus of this year’s Keynote at Macworld, and […]
Video: The Greatest “Star Wars” Movie ever filmed!
When the Star Wars prequels were in production, my circle of friends and I were fascinated, not only by the movies themselves, but by the fan film community that was building around the Star Wars universe. We wrote our own fan films like “Urban Jedi” where two Jedi were lost on planet Earth, and another […]
Christmas in May, June or July at the Apple Store, Boston
by Jeff Cutler When I’m sitting in line outside the Boston Apple Store’s Boylston Street entrance on May 15, I’m going to be blogging and probably Twittering about the experience. It won’t be totally about the free T-shirt I’ll get at 6PM when the doors are reportedly going to open for the first time to […]
Download the “missing” iPhone ringtone – FREE
If you’ve ever listened closely to the iPhone Ads (most of them anyway) you’ve probably heard a curious sounding ringtone. It’s curious because its not one of the default ringtone options on your iPhone. Interestingly, any of you who have iLife ’08 do actually have this ringtone – you just don’t know it yet. 😉 […]
