Boot Your Mac Into Mavericks Beta From A USB Drive [OS X Tips]
Are you a registered developer with Apple? Do you want to try out Mavericks without risking your entire Mac to a potentially wonky version of OS X? I haven’t seen any major issues, yet, but that...
View Article‘Gentlemen!’ Is A Fun, Chaotic Dueling iPad-Only Game With A Mini-Game Feel...
The fine folks at Lucky Frame are at it again, this time with an iPad-only multiplayer dueling game, Gentlemen!. It’s a bit of a departure for the team that brought us music-based games like Pugs Love...
View Article‘Bloons TD Battles’ Brings Dart-Throwing, Shuriken-Tossing Wizard Monkeys To...
New Zealand-based games developer Ninja Kiwi just released Bloons TD Battles to the iOS App Store. It’s a faster, more multiplayer take on popular Bloons TD, a single-player fixed path tower defense...
View ArticleDogfight With Your iPhone And Mac – ‘Sky Gamblers: Cold War’ Gets Its Wings...
If you like flight simulators, especially those of the more arcade variety, the Sky Gamblers series is a great place to start. Originally published by Namco Bandai Games, the last couple of...
View ArticleSet Default Font Choices For Messages You Send And Receive In Mavericks Beta...
In the OS X 10.8 version of Messages on the Mac, you can set the background color of your own messages, and you can set the background color, font, and font color of anyone who sends you messages. Now,...
View ArticlevBookz PDF Voice Reader Includes New Font For People With Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a disability that likely affects 70 – 80 percent of people with poor reading skills, with one in five students having a language-based disability that could include dyslexia. Many folks...
View ArticleShadowrun Launch Trailer Has Us Shivering With Anticipation For July 25th...
Back in 1989, I was a young punk in college who read science fiction voraciously and had a history of playing Dungeons and Dragons. I know, slow down ladies, what a catch. Anyway, it was with...
View ArticleHere Are Another Five Great Tips And Tricks For OS X Mavericks Beta [Feature]
We’re still finding some great new features and tricks in OS X Mavericks beta, and while it’s not a huge overhaul like the more populare iOS 7 update, Mavericks has plenty of great things going on...
View ArticleApple Hits One Billion Podcast Subscriptions Mark, Celebrates With New iTunes...
Podcasts came onto the scene in 2001, getting onto iTunes in 2005, and have slowly “transformed the media landscape,” according to Apple’s new iTunes splash page celebrating a milestone one billion...
View ArticleFind And Enable Access For Assistive Devices In Mavericks Beta [OS X Tips]
My ten year old son has gotten significantly into Civilization V lately, and we bought him his own copy on sale at Steam yesterday. So, he was at his mom’s house, and I was at my house, and he wanted...
View ArticleIgnore Unwanted Or Unknown Calls To Your iPhone More Easily [iOS Tips]
Now here’s a slick little trick fresh off the boat from those wacky folks at Macworld that will have you wondering, “why didn’t I think of that?” You know how you get tons of calls each week or month...
View ArticlePlay Beautiful Adventure Game, ‘The Raven – Legacy Of A Master Thief’ Right Now
KING Art and Nordic Games just released a brand new, gorgeous point and click adventure game, The Raven – Legacy of a Master Thief to Mac, PC, and Linux via the Steam or Nordic Games shop in both...
View ArticleUsers More Likely To Share Web Content Via Their iPhone Than Any Other Mobile...
ShareThis, the popular content sharing button on many websites, reported a study in which user patterns suggest that the iPhone is the “Most Social Device,” accounting for three times as much sharing...
View ArticleEscape Screen Sharing Via Alfred Or Quicksilver Using Command-Tab [OS X Tips]
I use Apple’s built-in Screen Sharing app all the time to connect from my Macbook Air to my Mac Mini. It’s a great way to just quickly log in from the Air and restart a Minecraft server, for example,...
View ArticleArchive Older iOS Backups Via iTunes To Save Timely Snapshots [iOS Tips]
If you backup your iOS devices to your Mac, you will overwrite the latest backup each time you do so, creating a new, fully up-to-date copy of your iOS device, including settings, apps, and data. But...
View ArticleApple Rolls Out Developer System Status Page, Promises To Keep Fixing Things
Apple just sent out an email announcing that it has a new System Status page for developers who want to track what’s going on with the still-down Dev Center after it was apparently hacked a couple of...
View ArticleStarbucks’ Pick Of The Week Is ‘Cyto’s Puzzling Adventure,’ A Pretty Fun...
You may know that Starbucks, perhaps the most ubiquitous coffee shop in the US and beyond, gives out free iTunes stuff each week. Sometimes it’s songs, sometimes TV show episodes, and sometimes Apps....
View ArticleAnnotate, Improve, And Streamline Your Screenshots With Share Bucket [OS X Tips]
Screenshots are the lifeblood of this tips column, and I’m willing to bet a lot of you use the feature, built right in to your Mac, to capture images of stuff on your screen to share with friends,...
View ArticleApple Wins Best Tablet, Mobile Phone, and Computer Brand Of The Year. Again.
Market research firm Harris Interactive conducts a fairly extensive poll each year in the area of consumer electronic brands. This year, Apple again took the top spot in three major categories, named...
View ArticleTurtleStrike Offers Ridiculous Weaponry, Turn-Based Strategy, And A $5,000...
Out today, TurtleStrike brings iOS and Android gamers a new, turn-based strategy game with over 80,000 combinations of weaponized, armored turtle warfare. You’ll get Tesla coils and kamikaze turtles, a...
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