Oh the weather outside is delightful right now. From where we sit, there is a light dusting of snow with the promise of much more later today and tonight. Forget what science says about solstices and equinoxes, winter is here when the snow comes to stay. And since many of you are going to be cuddled up by the fire, why not cuddle up with Mac|Life and the week in review. We'll bring the marshmallows.
Features:
- Vintage Photo Shootout: Instagram vs. Hipstamatic - Troll through the App Store looking at camera apps and you could be there all day comparing features, sizing up the UI, analyzing user reviews. When you get to the niche-y-er apps such as vintage style photos, the pool thins down quite a bit. A couple names we're sure you've heard, Instagram and Hipstamatic, have risen to the top of the heap. Two hipster cams walk into the ring, but only can walk out.
- Q&A: My Month with the MacBook Air - One of our lucky duckie editors, Susie Ochs, got to spend a whole month pallin' around and cuddlin' up to the new MacBook Air, and she's here to tell you what it's all about. How does it stack up? Can you ditch your MacBook Pro for this one? Take it away, Susie!
How-Tos:
- How To Master Photo Organizing and Editing on Your Mac - iPhones, point-and-shoots, DSLRs, old photos we scanned, and suddenly we're drowning in digital imagery and we need help and we need help fast. How the heck are we ever going to corral our imagery if we've got this many already and we are looking at a good fifty more years of life and picture taking? Well, we can't help you with the fifty years part, but we can get you settled with the organization you so desperately need. Today.
- How To Run a Parallels Virtual Machine from an External USB Drive - Sometimes you just gotta bite the bullet and do it. We know! We know! But...still, sometimes you have that one program whose makers just won't create a Mac version. What are ya gonna do? Well, you're gonna set up a virtual machine to run that Windows game, and you're gonna run it right out of an external hard drive. Yeah, that's right.
Reviews:
- Rage HD Review - Mutants out to get you in this first person shooter? Yeah, that's how we like it. The graphics are beautiful and it really is an awesome demonstration of what an iOS device can do as a gaming platform. We just wish there were more than three levels to the game. Are you listening, Bethesda?
- iMovie '11 Review - Apple went and did a huge upgrade to just about all the biggies in the latest iLife suite and we gotta tell you, some of these are just beyond sweetness. iMovie might just be Cupertino's greatest iteration of their popular movie editing software.
News:
So maybe you just don't happen to have one o' them fancy pants new AirPrint compatible printers. No worries, mates, as long as you install AirPrint Hacktivator which turns any printer hooked to your Mac AirPrint compatible...and the kids these days, because they're wanting their iPads, they're gonna want their printing as well...and they definitely will grow up reading their comics on the iPad (heck, even we oldsters are addicted to our digital comics nowadays)...or if they're at college, the iPad is killing it as an e-reader, just tearing up the market...speaking of reading, ahem, let us just burnish our lapels here with the news that our issue zero of Mac|Life on the iPad just picked up a VanGuard Award... pick up a copy, all the cool kids are reading it, and since all the cool kids like themselves some chatting, you may want to wait until the camera enabled iPad 2 hits...but if you have to have it or your kids do as well, here's the bestest of the best games out there for the iPad...and if tons of solid articles showcasing the iPad don't sway you to rush out and get one, perhaps Apple's much more polished emotional appeal will do the trick...if not that, then there's always BBC content for lovers of all things Beeb who don't live in the UK.
If you're a big fan of updates, this was definitely theweek for them as they were popping all over the joint...first there were rumors of a very quickly approaching iOS update...though not necessarily throwing cold water on that, Apple and publishers still aren't speaking the same language...be that as it may, publishers don't seem to mind getting a little tighter with Flipboard and might just be updating the depth of what they make available...similarly positioned in the RSS quick news realm, Reeder for Mac beta arrives on our desktops while the iPhone version gets a boost...and if you can't live without your iPhone gaming, Angry Birds Halloween knocks out the holiday newness for a free Christmas update...closer to Cupertino, Apple is seeding out Mac OS X 10.6.6 moving along their software offerings...while on the hardware end of things, Apple decided to tidy up their accessory offerings updating this, ditching that, and dropping their cable prices...Steven Jobs & Co. also snagged an exclusive Michael Jackson track for Ping, so even the dead have updates coming your way...also for gamers OnlLive PlayBack, a flat rate monthly subscription to gaming, is coming your way, offering you all the gaming you can stand for just a tenner a month....then there's also Infinity Blade hitting the App Store in just four more short days, if you can wait that long....
