ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL!?? No? Prefer to read about all the happenings in the world o' Mac? Well, all rightie then. And if you go both ways, the big game doesn't start for a few more hours and here's something to distract you whilst you wait. Just In Case You Missed It.
Features:
- 25 Awesome Features We Want From the iPad 2 - It seems we never grow tired of wishing and dreaming for more features and new developments with our iOS devices. With yearly refreshes and killer new features hitting all the time, Apple's got us on a pretty good want-get-want cycle. Well, here's 25 more things we want, this time from the iPad 2.
- 17 Must Have Games for Your iPhone and iPad - And since you have to have it, here's 17 must haves for those of you rocking the gaming world on your iOS devices. Spot UFOs and keep them in your viewfinder, tie rope around a wooden block, and cut some ropes to feed your cute little Om Nom.
How-Tos:
- 11 Unix Commands Every Mac Geek Should Know - You're not content just using your Mac like every other buyer out there, no, you want to rock this thing hardcore style. Well, there's one surefire route to unlock your Geek Badge and kick things up a notch: that's right, Unix commands that get you deep into your OS.
- How To Stop Advertisers From Tracking Your Browsing Habits - We're not quite to Minority Report style advertising (yet), but it's more than just a little unsettling when advertising that's specifically tailored to your interests and searches starts cropping up wherever you go online. Want to shut off that noise? Sure you do. And here's how you crank up your browser's privacy options.
Reviews:
- January's Highest Rated Reviews - The reviews are in -- January's highest rated ones, that is, and as per usual, we've rounded up all our little doggies just for you. It's all here: DSLR lenses, apps, audio docks, thigh clips for your iPad (trust us), and more.
- App Showdown: Video Streaming - If you're going to stream video to your iPhone or iPad from your hard drive, there's a whole bunch of ways to go. Some are great, some are not, and some blow the roof off your expectations, but which is which?
News:
Can you hear us...now? Sure, it's Super Bowl Sunday, and your humble correspondents expect this news round up to drop right down into a dark, lonely chasm of silence, just like half our calls on AT&T. (ZING! We're here all week. Be sure to tip your bartender.) That doesn't mean that duty fails to call or that plenty of Mac geeks who could care less about football won't be scouring the intertoobz for distractions from Bud Bowl and the Black Eyed Peas. It also doesn't mean that our editors aren't breathing down our necks, so without further ados, here comes da newz!
It seems like half our news stories this week featured former Apple BFF and now hot-n-cold rival, Google, as the search engine giant continued marching into the App Store with Google Shopper...then rolling our Instant Previews for Mobile Safari...then hooking us up with some seriously great art with the Google Art Project...then there's Android tablet's bumping up their tablet numbers with 22 percent of the market, chipping away at the iPad...what does the Woz have to say about that? Well, he's kinda not really keeping his opinions to himself, now is he?...and one of our own editors doesn't think much of Honeycomb and what it's supposed to bring for the Android tablet market...though win some, lose some, it seems Microsoft has jumped ship on the Google-backed WebM and solidified their stand with H.264 as the online codec for the win...for the online money cha-ching for yourself, here's a little way to hook yourself up with some Google AdSense (even in iWeb); your blog just might someday buy you a cup of coffee...and if you are watching football today, you're likely to see this ad during one of the commercial breaks, provided you're not making a beer run. In it, Motorola makes with the historical comparison angle.
One other story cropped up pretty strong this week. The first is just the mopping up after Verizon destroyed the news with the iPhone 4 rocking their network. Turns out it was pretty popular, with pre-orders selling out faster than anything the carrier's ever seen...and the reviews hit pretty much what we expected, with voice crushing AT&T while data lags...and Best Buy will begin carrying both the Verizon and AT&T iPhone 4 starting February 10th...and Verizon brought out the big guy for the crushing ad, "Yes, I Can Hear You -- Now."
Paging Ralph de la Vega
