Happy Father's Day to everyone out there. We know, we know, you were spending so much time looking for that perfect gift for dad (i.e., tie) that maybe you might have missed a few stories this week. Well, that's all right, you know, because like dad, we're always toiling in the background, making sure you have food on the table and a roof over your head and plenty to read. So here you go. Don't say we never gave you anything. And shut the door already, were you born in a barn?
- How To Prepare Your Mac for OS X Lion - It's not quite like updating the iOS. You don't just click update and that's it. Oh no. There are tons of things you need to do to get ready. For starters, make some backups of your hard drive, make sure your hardware's compatible, then make sure your apps are too. There's more too, because you don't want to miss a trick going to the king of the cats, Lion.
- iCloud vs. MobileMe: What We Might Lose and What We Might Gain - We're all getting iCloud come this fall, but how does it stack up to MobileMe just in terms of what services are on offer? (How well it works in comparison will remain to be seen.) Well, we've got a handy dandy chart (clip it, keep it in your wallet!) that breaks down, based on what Cupertino's said so far, what is and isn't offered in Apple's cloud and how it stacks up.
- App Showdown: Phone-y Apps - Take the magic of free stateside phone calls on your desktop Gmail and put that into your phone? Not for you? How about use your iPod to make "fone" calls to your Facebook friends? More your speed? Well, we break down the pros, the cons, and the wrong numbers in both style of app, just the way you like it.
- Trucks and Skulls Review - It's a game, it's got trucks and it's got skulls. We're just so surprised that it took someone this long to come up with that magic combination. Now we know what people must have felt like right after they got peanut butter in their chocolate, a kind of awe and amazement.
- How To Get Two Docks in Mac OS X - What is this magic of which you speak? We love our docks, but we've seen people scroll through so many icons looking for the right program, we wondered what was the point. Now two docks (or more) each with a dedicated function? This could be a convenience game-changer.
- How To Move Your iWeb Sites to a Dedicated Host - Apple makes everything easy, until one day they don't. Internet scuttlebutt with a reputed Steve Jobs email to back it up says iWeb hosting may disappear with the shift to iCloud, and that spells trouble for everyone who bought in big with Apple's website hosting. We're here to help, and we'll show you how to move your site over to a dedicated hosting solution.
