Well, by now all our regular readers should have nursed their hangovers into sweet regular living, cleaned up their homes, made bail, and managed to find their ways home from three states over where they awoke the next morning. We don't blame you. Most everyone we know was all too ready to say sayonara to 2010, and no matter what the Mayans say, it's full speed ahead 2011. So pour yourself some coffee and let us take you back in time to the last week of the year, the one you've oh so blessedly blotted from your memories, because after this New Year's Eve, this really was a true case of In Case You Missed It.
Features:
- 10 iOS Apps to Help You Party Hardy and 7 Apps to Help You Survive the Aftermath of New Years Eve - We hit you with the double whammy here, our intrepid research team getting cracking on how to party like it's 1999. First step for 2010 is believe in the Internet. Second step, let Mac|Life pour you a tall, cold glass of bubbly. That's just getting started, and while there isn't an app that can get you instantaneous cotton mouth relief nor one that removes unwisely purchased end-of-the-year tattoos, we at least can point you in the right direction for apps that will make the day after a little less hairy.
- App Showdown: Free Texting Apps - Luckily for you, we got this article to print before the New Year's Eve partying started for real, so when you woke up in that Mexican jail, there was no trouble (once you got your iPhone back from la policia) getting hold of your bros. Just drop them a text, include a picture of you and the other criminales, and they'll be wiring you your bail any minute now, right? And all it costs is a free app and the time to set it up -- oh, yeah, and the foresight to do it before you started partying.
How-Tos:
- How To Sync Your iTunes Library to Mutliple Computers With Dropbox - Until Apple finally cracks the nut of cloud streaming and puts LaLa to some work, we've got a Dropbox solution that works just dandy. So, you want to sync your iTunes Library on multiple computers and be the DJ]? Just sit right back and follow along and we'll have you sorted out in no time.
- How To Rid of Comic Sans from Safari - File this one under #firstworldproblems if you're a Twitter kind of person. Okay, fine, there are just some people who have font hatreds. We get that, and if killing Comic Sans when and where it rears its ugly childish head is what you need for inner peace, who are we to stand in your way?
Reviews:
- Renamer Filenaming Utility Review - Do you know what we hate most about digital cameras? Oh come on, you can guess this one. It's how we upload our photos and then later when we want to find one it's all IMG_4562 and IMG_4652 and IMG_5462 and -- what was that number again? If only there were some way to dump our pix on the computer then batch name change them into something recognizable like Mac|Life Mugshot Collection. Oh, wait, here's just that way.
- Studio Artist 4 Review - Artists, get your checkbooks (or your parents') out right now because if you don't have this software, you're going to experience extreme want after reading this article. Even those as un-artistic as some people on our freelance team felt a craving for a beret, a laptop, this software, and some models. Seriously, this might be a little confusing at first, but the software delivers like nobody's business when it comes to picture making.
News:
Yeah, you thought we were going to forget this for yet another week, but no, we got your year end news week cycle all wrapped up snug like a bug in a rug; and without further ados, let's make with the news.
One of our favorite things to happen is when reality outpaces a rumor and Skype hits us up with video calling before the first CES guest has arrived...and as long as we're talking rumors, let's start hitting those Verizon iPhone rumors early and repeatedly...and don't let's forget that an iPad for Verizon is supposedly on its way too...so the question is, will as many iPad 1 owners buy an iPad 2 as Kindle owners bought an iPad? Tough math, tough math...want some easy math? Here's one: chart the hugely declining sales of magazines for the iPad; if this digital publishing saving periodical schtick is going to work, other tablets gotta step up...as long as we're figuring out how to make reading work on the iPad, we have to have a solution to sync our Google Reader accounts, don't you?...back to Apple for a second, looks like, with an announcement this early, that Apple's hittin the good news tree a little early with 2011 quarterly reports.
It's been quite a year, hasn't it? It's been a year when we've taught you small stuff like how to use the tile function, now like a genius, now like a chump....what to do when your Dock freezes up like a 7 year old on a high diving board...how to browse the iBookstore superstar style...and how to take one of those soon-to-be PDFs and edit its butt off in some kind of iPad environment...how to force Safari to open new windows in a new tab instead (which really ought to be the default)...and how to have your picture library with you without eating up tons of iPhone storage.
