December's Highest Rated Reviews
Posted 01/10/2011 at 10:30am
| by The Mac|Life Staff

If you're looking for the best of the best, check out the highest rated products on MacLife.com for the month of December.
Bejeweled 3

A Bejeweled addict can always justify more Bejeweled.

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GarageBand '11

With this newly updated revision, there are even more reasons to really dig this maestro of a music-making app.
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IDR655M Increased Dynamic Range Earphones

The sound quality is excellent, and the 11mm drivers pump out full, accurate sound with strong enough bass to keep us from scrambling for our EQ settings.
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iMovie '11

Ever since Apple completely redesigned iMovie back in 2007 to make it more approachable for novice home-movie editors, it’s received a lot of flak from all those who were using the previous version for more pro-level work. But iMovie was never meant for professionals, and that version (iMovie ’08) was ideal for anyone who didn’t know a thing about video editing. As iMovie ’09 came and went, the howling continued, but with the return of audio editing and more to iMovie ’11, the outcry should subside at last.

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iPhoto '11

iPhoto isn’t just about zeroes and ones—’11 boasts improved book-design tools and a new letterpress-card feature for those extra-special anniversaries and events, making it that much easier and more satisfying to bridge the gap between the digital and physical worlds.

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LaunchBar 5

If you’re ready to give your productivity a turbo boost, LaunchBar is the ticket.

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Rock Band Reloaded HD

If there’s one immutable truth, it’s this: rock stars are among the coolest, most talented people out there and we all want to be one. Thus, it stands as no surprise that an iPad version of Rock Band has just become available in the iTunes Store.
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Sid Meier's Civilization V

Civilization V is worthy of the franchise’s crown as the king of all strategy games.

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Speck DustJacket for iPad

We like this case for its simplicity, and the fact that it sturdily holds up the iPad so we can comfortably watch a flick or type out an email.
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Studio Artist 4

The little-known Studio Artist 4 delivers a one-of-a-kind creative application that can craft visuals like nothing else—if you’re prepared to spend some time mastering its intricacies.
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World of Warcraft Cataclysm

Six years after its release on the Mac OS X and Windows platforms, World of Warcraft, the most popular massively multiplayer online role playing game of all time, needed a shot in the arm to make a familiar thing seem new again.

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