Like the week of the Verizon iPhone, there was one story that was the dominator of the news here, and that story was Macworld Expo 2011. We've got videos, we've got galleries, we've got stories, we've got interviews. We've got it all. And here it all is, just in case...yeah, yeah, you know, just In Case You Missed It.
Features:
- Mac|Life Interviews Macworld Expo VP Paul Kent - Well, it was the Macworld week, so we'd be remiss if we didn't draw your attention to this interview where Paul Kent gives us the scoop. We took his advice and checked out his recommendations and you should too.
- Mac|Life Interviews iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens - We're big fans of iFixit, because we have a DIY groove going on, and we're a little irked sometimes at Steve & Co.'s heavy controlling hands when it comes to our Apple products. So we nabbed a sit down with Kyle Wiens, CEO of the teardown company, and he took us apart (not really).
How-Tos:
- How To Jailbreak Your New Apple TV with Seas0nPass (and Install XBMC Too!) - With the second-generation Apple TV rocking the same iOS as the iPhone and iPad, that means jailbreaking options are out there. Don't like the artificial limitations put on your gear by Cupertino? Seas0nPass is the route to XBMC where IOS, AVIs, MKVs and other treats await.
- How To Set Up DynDNS On Your Mac - Remembering your IP Address is a chore and then it goes and changes on you and then you've got this new number to remember -- until it changes, then how do you go about connecting to your SSH-ready Mac back home when you're not there. DynDNS is on the case, making things easy.
Reviews:
- App Showdown: Calendars - You don't just want a little calendar, you want your calendar maxed out and accessible whenever and wherever, which is why we took a look at two top contenders to replace your native iOS calendar. Who came out on top? Read on and see.
- LaCie USB 3.0 ExpressCard/34 Review - USB 3.0! USB 3.0! It's the awesome blazingest speed and we Apple users are on the cutting edge and we -- what? No USB 3.0 on any Apple products? No OS-X-compatible drivers from Intel? Surely someone can give us the hot power action we desire. LaCie has got us covered. Well, maybe they do.
News:
And...it was Macworld Expo 2011, and of course we were there, beating the pavement, chasing down the good stories, snapping pix, taking video, working the floor.
First, how do you get around San Francisco? Yeah, yeah, yeah, app for that and all that...we cruised around the city ourselves then swung into the Moscone to see what was going down with the set up...and the folks over at iMacworld got their app update on just in time for the show...and since we're all about the reader participation, we set up a Flickr feed where you, our beloved readers, could upload your own pictures to the site to show us what you loved at Macworld...plus we wanted to know what you thought about how to make Macworld evern better, and you didn't disappoint... then finally your wait (and ours) was rewarded when the doors opened...and it was Gear City!
First up, we loved this Dry Case for taking your iPad under water, because we've always wanted to scuba AND play Angry Birds at the same time...then Flo went all cuh-razy with the cases in an extra special super duper bling bling episode of Best Case Scenario...hopefully a good case would have solved this man's complaint as he takes dropping his own glass-backed phone to the class action level...based on what we've seen in this video, we're pretty sure that FastMac's Impact Shield case would do the trick, though watching the hammer come down still makes us cringe. Every. Single. Time...so let's turn away from case issues to another storage issue, namely what to do with all those pirat-- uh, totally legit copies of movies we're cluttering up our hard drives with; Seagate debuted two especially formatted for Mac users hard drives that took the cake...not to be undone by any stretch of the imagination, HyperJuice brought out there just for the iPad 1TB hard drive that makes taking your movies on the go a snap...because iOS hardware was everywhere we turned at Macworld and we've got the pix to prove it...like this little honey of a keyboard that lets you type one handed on your computer or your iOS device....and we like this external battery pack that lets you charge to mobile phones at the same time...then we moved on to Mac hardware, like some sweet SSD action and Mac Mini mounts and more...and then, like a dream, it was all over, but we have not just one gallery, but two galleries of pix to prove that it happened.
