If you're looking for the best of the best, check out the highest reviewed products on MacLife.com for the month July.
Bowers & Wilkins’ MM-1 are solidly built and sound spectacular. They’re intended for the desktop, but they’re powerful enough to pump music to a decent-sized room as well.
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At 5x7.1x11 inches and 15 pounds, the Solo isn’t going to be mistaken for any old desktop drive. The steel enclosure tells you this drive means business. Our benchmarks uncovered read and write speeds of 36.85 and 26.98 MB/s from the 7200 RPM drive, making it fine for use as your working drive. But this sucker is the Mr. T of hard drives--it sure ain’t pretty, but it’s pretty tough.
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Serious producers might defer to more advanced computer software, while wannabes may cringe at the recently boosted price tag (from $10 to $15), but Looptastic HD remains a stellar iPad option for living out your own DJ fantasies.
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IMDb's attractive interface offers easy access to movie and series pages, each of which typically includes cast and crew information, plot details, trivia, and memorable quotes, plus image galleries and a trailer. You can also look up local showtimes for flicks still in theaters, or read reviews from IMDb users and professional critics alike.
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The Dualie is a portable hard drive and a docking station for your iPhone or iPod. It connects to your Mac via USB, enabling you to sync or otherwise manage either device while it’s in the dock. But it’s also powered via AC adapter, so you can recharge your phone or audio player even when your computer’s switched off.
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The iPhone 4’s impressive leaps in performance, its hefty roster of new features, and that lovely screen cement its position as a powerful pocket computer and camera that also makes phone calls. Whether you just bought a 3GS last year or you’re considering your first iPhone purchase, it’s the kind of essential, must-own device that you’ll delight in using every day.
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We've yet to see any magazines replicate the video-heavy reading demo the company touted before release, but after some serious tweaks, Zinio for iPad has become an excellent way to read and follow your favorite magazines.
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If your work includes any explicit information collection, DEVONthink deserves your attention. The amount of information that needs managing grows on a daily basis, and DEVONthink’s latest update makes great strides in its ability to collect and search data. The core philosophy behind all three flavors of the app--Regular, Professional, and Pro Office versions are available--is the same: accumulate lots of information and then provide ways of making that information useful.
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If you’re outdoors regularly or have a secure sunny spot nearby where you can leave your phone during the day, the Surge could quite easily replace the nightly ritual of plugging your iPhone in to charge--or at least let you get through the day without a power-up.
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We’ve seen some fairly ridiculous iPhone and iPod accessories in our day, so it’s extra refreshing when we find one as useful, well designed, and...well, sane as the P-Flip. It ably fills three roles: a dock for charging and syncing to your Mac, a travel stand that works in landscape or portrait, and a powerful external battery.
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The new Mac mini’s strong consumer-level performance, beautiful design, and good value make it a tempting choice, especially if you find the iMacs’ and MacBooks’ standard screens far too glossy. If replacing the hard drive were an Apple-approved upgrade, it’d be just about perfect.
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CloudApp aims to simplify the process of quickly sharing files and web links, either with your coworkers, or with friends on social networks like Twitter or Facebook. Privacy features are limited, but CloudApp is a great way to quickly and almost instantly pass a file to a colleague or your flock of Twitter followers.
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