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Day One Review - A Personal Diary For Your Life

Karl Hodge, Macworld UK

Bloom Built has put together a polished journaling tool for storing your personal thoughts and experiences.

Staycation, All The Apps I Ever Wanted

Susie Ochs, Macworld

These apps can make sure you have a great one without sweating too much over the planning.

Options for checking free hard-drive space in OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

Firefox 23 Review: Cheerful, Cluttered, And A Bit Too Eager To Please

Nathan Alderman, Macworld

I can’t ignore Firefox 23’s largely lackluster performance, or its crowded and increasingly clunky interface. But Mozilla and its developers show impressive attention to detail in each individual feature, and for all their excesses, it’s clear that they’re thinking hard about how people might use their browser.

Apple Blocking Support Personnel Vacations From Sept. 15-28 For Launch Of New iPhones & iOS 7

Neil Hughes, AppleInsider

How App Store Grifters Clone An Overnight Success To Make A Quick Buck

Casey Johnston, Ars Technica

The app had only been out three months, and already the creators of A Beautiful Mess were scrambling to deal with a big problem: clones, copycats, and rip-offs, as many as seven of them, crowding the search results in the App Store. The clones appeared to be legitimate, affiliated versions, yet as all the developers knew, they were anything but.

EA Reports SimCity Mac Installation Issues Have Been Resolved

Mike Wehner, TUAW

Apple Inadvertently Asking Developers For iOS 7-Optimized App Icons

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

As part of iOS 7′s dramatic interface changes, the Home screen icons have been slightly enlarged compared to the iOS 6 icons.

Apple’s iPhone Trade-In Program Going Live Across The U.S. Today

Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch

The program works by giving iPhone owners a chance to trade in non-water damaged devices in good working order, for between $120 and $250 or so depending on the condition of the device, what model it is and other factors. As part of the stipulations of the trade-in, customers have to walk out with a new contract as well as a new device.

Refreshing Finder Windows In Mac OS X

OS X Daily

There is no refresh button or keyboard shortcut for the OS X Finder, something which can become a nuisance when a folder window or directory does not refresh contents after something has changed. That may be a fairly rare occurrence with a Mac built-in hard drive, but external drives and particularly network drives used for file sharing can often exhibit this behavior, where adjustments to the file system are not represented in the active Finder window.

Report: After Patent Loss, Apple Tweaks FaceTime—and Logs 500,000 Complaints

Joe Mullin, Ars Technica

This month, testimony in a court hearing showed that not only is Apple facing royalty payments that could cost it many millions more, but it has already made changes to one of its premiere products, FaceTime—changes that reportedly have degraded the service's quality.

Beautune Is A Capable OS X Editor For Making Portraits

Mel Martin, TUAW

FunBITS: Blackbar Offers Trenchant Word Puzzle

Josh Centers, TidBITS

iBookstore Customers Receive Ebook Settlement Letters

Michael E. Cohen, TidBITS

Payments will not begin immediately following final approval of the settlement in December 2013, assuming it is approved. That's because the case is still subject to appeal, and the payments will not begin until all appeals are resolved, a process that could take months or even years.

LogDiver Review: Get The Data You Need From Complex Log Files

Marco Tabini, Macworld

Apple iMac 27-Inch (Nvidia GeForce GTX 675M)

Joel Santo Domingo, PC Magazine

DeskConnect Delivers Mac-to-iOS Quick Sharing

Michael Rose, TUAW

DeskConnect, which launched today on both the Mac and iOS App Stores, delivers on the promise of AirDrop while extending the concept of instant, easy sharing to the desktop. DeskConnect supports iOS 6 and devices back to the iPhone 3GS.

Blind, A 1X Web Browser For Retina Displays

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Corel Painter X3 Review

Tom Bagshaw, Macworld UK

Personally, the contextual brush controls alone are a pretty good argument to get the update. If you are currently use Photoshop – or even ArtRage – it really is the case you can't get a more ‘traditional’ painting application than Painter and you should get your wallet out now.

OS X Menu Bar App Released To Control Hue Lighting

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

The app is a simple menu bar drop-down utility that allows users to adjust their Hue lights via several ways.

ESPN Adds Two New Channels To iOS, Apple TV Apps

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Apple Online Store Finally Shipping To Puerto Rico

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Parallels Desktop 9 Soups Up Cloud Storage, Improves Windows 8 Support

Dan Moren, Macworld

Among the major new features of Parallels Desktop 9 is optimized support for cloud storage services like iCloud, Dropbox, Google Drive, Microsoft’s SkyDrive, and more. You can sync files between your Mac and your Windows virtual machine without having the files duplicated, thus saving you precious disk space.

Apple Updates Safari Web Plugin Blocker To Disable New Java Vulnerability

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

The Case Of The Missing Icon: Some People Unable To Access TV Shows On Apple TV

Joseph Keller, iMore

Nasty surprise today for some Apple TV users who powered up only to discover the TV Shows icon was missing from the interface. Yes, literally missing. Gone. Stolen.

Rendering Bug Crashes OS X, iOS Apps With String Of Arabic Characters

Andrew Cunningham And Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

Posters in a HackerNews thread from late yesterday have discovered that it's possible to crash Web browsers and other apps running on current versions of iOS and OS X by making them render a specific, nonsensical string of Arabic characters. The title of the HackerNews thread implies that the issue is with the WebKit browser engine, but it actually affects any browser or application that uses Apple's CoreText API to render text.

SimCity On Mac Is 'Totally Unplayable'

Mike Wehner, TUAW

The official EA forums are overrun with Mac gamers desperately trying to get their purchases to work correctly on computers ranging from brand-new Retina MacBooks to iMacs that are just a few weeks old.

Readmill Update Introduces Reviews And Highlights, Gets Rid Of DRM Complication

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Boss Blocker For Mac Lets You Hide Open Apps, Windows, More

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

It extends a computer’s capabilities by performing multiple actions simultaneously with a customizable keyboard shortcut.

Tower Defense Goes Medieval In Age Of Thrones: Available Now For iPhone

Joe White, AppAdvice

GraphicConverter 8.8

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Lemkesoft has released GraphicConverter 8.8 with a plethora of new features and improvements, including support for XMP (Extensible Metadata Platform) face tags, the capability to create a new image with URL from the Clipboard, and support for exporting a TIFF file with ZIP compression.

Yahoo Adds Customizable Filters And Pro Editing Tools To Flickr For iOS

Vlad Savov, The Verge

The Flickr app for iPhone now includes an even wider array of filters, all of which can be applied and previewed before capturing a photo. Yahoo's calling them live filters and they're part of an enhanced set of camera tools, which include grid overlays, pinch-to-zoom, and exposure and focus locks.

Mention (for iPhone)

Jill Duffy, PC Magazine

Mention actively searches the Web and social media sites for key terms you choose, with advanced search criteria available, and in multiple languages.

How Apple Does Sentimental Consumerism

Nicki Lisa Cole, Pacific Standard

Apple product users are living in the moment, soaking up all the sentimental experiences of pleasure, love, satisfaction, and jubilation that the brand promises, and that the products appear to deliver upon. This promise is what sells Apple products.

Enable The Hidden "Keep Both" Button When Copying Files In OS X

Lifehacker

Prevent Keyboard Layout Changes From Locking You Out Of Your Mac

Topher Kessler, CNET

If you use multiple input layouts with your Mac, use screensaver passwords with caution.

10 Apps To Throw The Perfect Party

Sarah Ang, Mashable

Is There Life After Mail For Mac Users? Yes. It’s Called Airmail

Tera Thomas O'Brien, Tera Talks

It simply feels thinner and lighter and more approachable than Apple’s Mail.

'Minecraft In 2-D' Action Adventure Game Terraria Breaks New Ground On iOS

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Commonly described as basically Minecraft in 2-D, Terraria is a side-scrolling action-adventure game that has you doing some exploring, crafting, constructing, and combating through randomly generated 2-D environments.

Apple Confirms AlgoTrim Acquisition

John Paczkowski, All Things D

AlgoTrim develops data-compression technology that simultaneously shortens processing times and reduces file size — just the sort of thing for optimizing mobile imaging and video.

TicToc Review: A Tracker For When Time Is Money

Marco Tabini, Macworld

Whether you’re a professional that charges its clients by the hour, or are simply trying to make sense of where your days are going, TicToc is a great little utility that helps you keep track of the amount of time you dedicate to your tasks.

Unpatched Mac Bug Gives Attackers “Super User” Status By Going Back In Time

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

Researchers have made it easier to exploit a five-month-old security flaw that allows penetration testers and less-ethical hackers to gain nearly unfettered "root" access to Macs over which they already have limited control.

Blackbar: A Fascinating Word/puzzle Game And Cautionary Tale

Steven Sande, TUAW

Blackbar is a sobering reminder of the ever-present possibility of a police state, and it's also great entertainment.

Charge Your iPhone On Your Bike Commute With The Ecoxpower

Andrew Kunesh, Macgasm

Apple Store's New Design Preserves Fountain

John King, San Franciso Chronicle

Apple has presented city officials with a revised design for the flagship store it wants to build across from Union Square at Post and Stockton streets. And where the initial proposal in May consigned the fountain to an unknown fate, it now will stand amid steps leading up to a plaza between the back of the Apple Store and the side of the Grand Hyatt San Francisco.

Gmail For iOS Updated With Improved Drive Integration And Attachment Viewing

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

How To Block All Incoming Network Connections In Mac OS X

OS X Daily

Best Streaming Video Apps For iPhone And iPad (U.S.): Netflix, Amazon Instant, Air Video, And More!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Judge To Install External Antitrust Monitor At Apple

Joseph Keller, iMore

Though her final ruling is expected to be narrower than what the Justice Department desires, Judge Denise Cote said a third-party supervisor will be installed to prevent further violation of antitrust laws.

Half An Apple: Developer Creates Tiny, Working Version Of Original Macintosh

Nathan Ingraham, The Verge

Using Sintra foamboard and a Raspberry Pi, Leake has successfully created a working scale model of the original Mac that's one-third the size of the original.

Twitter Update Makes It Easier To Follow Conversations

Bent Dirks, AppAdvice

Apple Adds Chat Support To AppleCare Web Site

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Apple has streamlined its AppleCare Web site, (finally) adding a chat support option for when you just have a quick question and don’t want to pick up the phone or drive to the nearest Apple Store.

55% Of U.S. iOS Users With Google Maps Use It weekly

Mike Dano, FierceMobileContent

How To View Your iPhoto Images On An Apple TV

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Apple Attempts To Trademark The Word 'Startup'

Michael Lee, ZDNet

The Impossible Line

Nadia Oxford, Pocket Gamer

Take A Lot Of Screenshots? This Desktop-Cleaning Trick Will Change Your Life

Kif Leswing, Wired

Mac Gems: Give OS X A Makeover With Flavours

Jackie Dove, Macworld

If you’re the kind of person who gets sick of looking at the same old thing every day—including your computer interface—then Flavours 1.0.12, a program that lets you apply, create, and share creative Mac OS X themes, will get your blood pumping.

‘Dots’ Review: Tetris For Hipsters Or The Best Puzzler Ever Made?

Steven Norris, Gearburn

Dots, an insanely simple and addictive game by Playdots, Inc is the best puzzler since Tetris.

Logic Pro X: The Right Tool For Podcasters?

Jason Snell, Macworld

Logic Pro X’s improved interface is easier to use than its predecessor's, and makes it much easier for novice users to discover the program’s many complex features. It’s not so much that Logic Pro X has a lot of features that Logic Pro 9 didn’t, but that it exposes those features more consistently and more logically.

How To Run Windows Software On OS X

James Cull, Mactuts+

In this tutorial, therefore, I will cover a couple of different (and easy) methods you can use to get your favourite Windows programs running on OS X.

Hands-on: Parallels Access Runs Your Mac Apps On Your iPad

Dan Miller, Macworld

ts new iOS app Parallels Access lets you connect to a remote Mac from your iPad and so "run" Mac apps on your tablet.

Radium Is A Beautiful And Functional Internet Radio Client

Daniel Celeste, AppAdvice

The stunning quality of the user interface and station selection definitely make this app worth looking at.

The Omni Group Releases OmniKeyMaster Mac App Store License Tool

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Dreamweaver CC Adds Live Highlight, Enhanced CSS Designer, More

Peter Cohen, iMore

Google Releases Chromecast App For iPhone And iPad

Yoni Heisler, TUAW

Google today released a new Chromecast app for iOS that enables customers to manage their Chromecast settings from their mobile device.

Best Streaming Music Apps For iPhone: Songza, Spotify, Rdio, And More!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Bypassing The Cloud With Transporter

Joe Kissell, TidBITS

Apple TV Updated With New Channels, Netflix Profiles

Josh Centers, TidBITS

Apple is at it again, adding more channels to the Apple TV, including the Smithsonian Channel, Vevo, Disney and Disney XD, and the Weather Channel.

Time To Make Holiday Gifts With Picture Collage Maker For Mac

Ilene Hoffman, TUAW

Picture Collage Maker from PearlMountain Technology Co., Ltd provides over 140 customizable templates ranging from holiday, family and seasonal themes to simple group templates for photos. You use to create calendars, cards, scrapbook pages, albums or a compilation of photos suitable for any occasion.

How Instagram For iOS Straightens Your Photos

Aaron Souppouris, The Verge

Clicking on the icon in the app's post-processing menu uses data from your phone's accelerometer and gyroscope to automatically work out the optimum angle for a straight photo. After your image is aligned you then have the option to tweak the exact angle using a sliding scale.

Centrify Delivers Unified Identity Solution For Security, Management Of Mac Users

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

The company says it’s the industry’s first solution to provide robust Active Directory-based authentication, policy management, single sign-on (SSO) and user self-service for connected and remote Mac OS X systems.

TuneIn Radio 4.0 Features Enhanced Now Playing Screen And Improved Facebook Login

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Easily Create And Manage Simply Great Websites With Jimdo For iOS

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

iOS 7 Available To The Public On September 10Th According To Developer Email

Russell Brandom, The Verge

Today, a developer named Owen Williams received an email indicating that iOS 7 would be released to the general public on the 10th, giving non-developers their first peek at the controversial operating system. The email comes from Nuance, which works closely enough with Apple to know the date in advance.

Mac Gems: Control Sound Volume On An Individual App Basis With SoundBunny

Marco Tabini, Macworld

Hype 2.0 Is A Solid WYSIWYG Tool For HTML5 Animation And Interactive Graphics

Megan Lavey-Heaton, TUAW

The 2.0 release addresses a lot of issues reviewers had with the initial release two years ago, and the support system is excellent.

Mr. Reader Update Adds Two New RSS Sync Services

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

Siri Just Started A Beef With Google Glass

Dan Seifert, The Verge

Apple's virtual personal assistant Siri has been known to have a quirky personality for a long time, offering off the cuff responses to a variety of unconventional requests. Now it appears that Siri is eager to take some jabs at Google Glass, as it responds with subtle and not-so-subtle putdowns on the product when you use the "Okay Glass" command.

300 Days With The iPad Mini

Dan Frommer, SplatF

Keyboard Maestro 6.2

Josh Centers, TidBITS

There are now actions to send and flag messages, along with a number of tokens and status functions to enhance those capabilities.

The Perils Of China For Google, Apple

John Shinal, USA Today

Canon Adds Apple AirPrint Compatibility To Newest PIXMA Printing Solutions

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Share More Happy Moments With More Happy Users With The Newly Updated Happier

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

BusyCal 2 For Mac Updated With Support For Exchange

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Six iPad Magazines That Are Changing The Publishing Business

John Paul Titlow, Fast Company

The field is still being defined, but the best ones out there today merge the design sensibilities of print with the openness and interactivity of the web. The further that print-first publishers can think outside their legacy paradigms, the better served their tablet-bound readers will be.

No More Nagging: 5 Apps For Sharing Tasks At Home

Ki Mae Heussner, GigaOM

Looking for a way to split tasks with your spouse or partner? Here are a few apps that could help manage your joint to-do lists (and maybe even your relationship).

Reward Summit For iOS Helps You Choose What Credit Card To Use To Maximize Points And Rewards

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Reward Summit keeps up with what offers each card carries with it and then uses the merchants you select to give you options as to what kind of rewards you can earn. It recommends to you what card you should use based on the benefits attached to each.

How-to: Setup And Use Dropbox To Manage And Share Photos, Files

Sarah Guarino, 9 To 5 Mac

Apimac Introduces Free Version Of Strip HTML For Mac

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Strip HTML makes it possible to get text from any webpage cleaned up from any code tags.

Rdio For iOS Gets Station Tuning, New Collection Options

Federico Viticci, MacStories

I'm Afraid To Tell You About Shrook, But RSS Users Deserve To Know

Mike Wehner, TUAW

It's fast, it has a fantastic search function, and it auto-refreshes constantly but uses only a small fraction of the system resources of every other standalone reader I've tried. Oh, and it's free.

'Blackbar' Is An iOS Puzzler And A Commentary On The NSA's Love Of Redacted Text

Chris Welch, The Verge

Neven Mrgan and James Moore have built a game that doesn't hold your hand, but that's likely to be a plus for some players. We won't spoil anything; just know that paying attention to a letter's context and events in the overall story arch are critical to keep moving forward.

Review: When Speed Is All You Care About In A Browser, Turn To Chrome For Mac

Nathan Alderman, Macworld

The latest version is once again a lightning-fast, efficiently functional browser, at or near the top of the pack in every benchmark I ran. But the things that have changed about Chrome since this time last year don’t seem quite as significant as those that have remained stubbornly the same.

iWork For iCloud Beta Now Available To The Public

Lex Friedman, Macworld

Words Is A Very Interesting Newish “Read It Later” And RSS Reader Available For Mac.

Patrick Rhone, Minimal Mac

Microsoft Says CEO Steve Ballmer Will Retire In 12 Months; Stock Rises

Associated Press

Microsoft Corp. did not name a successor. The company said it is forming a search committee and Ballmer will stay on until a replacement is found.

Who Owns The Networked Future Of Reading?

Damien Walter, The Guardian

Readmill is an e-reading app that, on the surface at least, will be familiar to anyone who has read a Kindle book on their smartphone or tablet. But what makes this scrappy indie app a potential Amazon giant-killer is how Readmill helps readers – and writers – talk to each other.

Sort Artists By Last Name And Find Missing Digital Booklets

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

This week’s column is a grab bag, where I look at a number of interesting questions about Genius, sorting albums by an artist’s last name, finding digital booklets in your iTunes library, and more.

Collaborating On Group Photo Albums Is So Much Easier With The Newly Updated Cluster

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Cluster offers an easy way for you to share and collect photos with others. Cluster automatically sorts photos based on location and timing and organizes them into special albums called “clusters.” It then lets you invite your family and friends to add to and comment on clusters.

Tracking Time For Fun And Profit On Your Mac

Tera Thomas O'Brien, Tera Talks

Chronos tracks time by projects and tasks (think of a project as two or more tasks) by clicking on the Menubar icon to setup a task in the pop up window.

New Education Section Launched On Apple.com

Rene Ritchie, iMore

Insight: At Apple, Tim Cook Leads A Quiet Cultural Revolution

Poornima Gupta and Peter Henderson, Reuters

Pandora Plans To Lift Its 40-Hour Free Mobile Listening Cap On Sept. 1

Anthony Ha, TechCrunch

ReadKit 2.3

Federico Viticci, MacStories

For me, the two most important additions are the improved sharing system and a global preference to group items by date or feed.

Mac Gems: Look Ma, No Mouse—thanks To Keymo

Marco Tabini, Macworld

The app allows you to control your mouse cursor with a set of customizable key combinations.

Apple Buys (Another) Map App, Embark

Jessica Lessin

Embark, founded in 2011, builds apps for mobile devices powered by Android and Apple’s iOS with information about transit systems in about half a dozen U.S. cities such as New York, San Francisco and Chicago. Its iOS apps are still available for download, but its Android apps aren’t, according to our checks.

Find The Next Awesome Concert With Timbre 2.0, The Music Discovery App For iPhone

Bryan M. Wolfe, AppAdvice

Review: ReadQuick 1.5 Brings Speed-reading To The iPhone

Mike Beasley, 9 To 5 Mac

Can You Draw The Impossible Line In Chillingo's Newest Puzzle Game For iOS?

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

The Impossible Line is as much a memory game as it is a line-drawing game.

Documents By Readdle Gets Photo Library Integration And Drag-and-drop In Latest Update

Richard Devine, iMore

Hands On With Hype 2'S Ten New Features

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

Hype 2 is a huge upgrade to an already-fantastic program, packing in ten new features (and more than a few tiny ones). I took Hype’s new version for a spin; here are some observations.

Award-Winning Puzzle Platformer Badland Bumps Into New Multiplayer Update

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

How To Import And View Images In iPhoto

Christopher Breen, Macworld

The Voice-Off: Android Vs. Siri

David Pogue, New York Times

Though Siri has the edge, the gap has closed substantially, and both systems are rapidly improving.

LIMBO For iOS Review: Shadow Play

Danny Greeff, Gearburn

Graphically, LIMBO is deceptively simple looking at first glance. It is literally a 2D side scrolling platformer, but upon further inspection you’ll see that the landscape has incredible depth and objects like tree branches seem to pass right by your face sometimes, while other small animations take place in the distance, hinting at what is to come. Add to this the ominous soundtrack and you’ve got an addictive, highly entertaining title that is impossible to put down and difficult to get out of your head.

Yelp (For iPhone)

Sean Ludwig, Jill Duffy, PC Magazine

The real selling point of the Yelp iPhone app is that it gives you succinct but essential information about businesses you might need or want to visit that are nearby. There's a lot more going on in the app, too, but it doesn't get in the way of the critical information put at the fore.

Best Handwriting Note Apps For iPad: Notability, Penultimate, Noteshelf, And More!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Top 5 Mac Racing Games To Get Your Motor Running!

Richard Devine, iMore

Apple Updates iBooks With iCloud Fixes

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

When Apps Modify Behavior

MG Siegler, Massive Greatness

The idea is almost laughably straightforward: take a picture of what you’re looking at with the back camera of your phone, then take a photo of yourself with the front camera. The app then automatically stitches those two pictures together, one on top of the other.

Apple Updates Logic Pro X With Bug Fixes

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

WriteDown 2.0 Features iCloud Syncing, iOS 7-Inspired UI And More Improvements

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Released just last month, WriteDown is, as noted by Christine in her review of the app here on AppAdvice, “a Markdown text editor for your iPhone with some powerful features.” And now, thanks to the app’s new 2.0 update, those powerful features have just been increased with the addition of several notable enhancements.

Apple Release iTunes Festival London 2013 App With Refreshed Design

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Hype HTML5 Creation Tool Gets New Features, iOS Previews With 2.0 Update

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Tumult Hype, a powerful HTML5 content creation tool for OS X, was updated today to version 2.0. Designed to allow web developers and designers to create rich, animated web content without relying on plugins (like Flash) or other native code, Hype — launched in 2011 by former Apple engineers — has always been at the forefront of HTML5 editing software on the Mac thanks to a polished interface, powerful features, support for Apple’s iBooks Author, and compatibility with several web browsers and technologies.

Google Maps For iOS Gets Waze Incident Reports

Joseph Keller, iMore

The Final Frontier: 10 iOS Apps For Astronomers, Stargazers And Amateur Space Explorers

Nick Summers, The Next Web

A Great App For Chronic Snoozers

CNET

Carrot Alarm is a unique alarm clock app that made me laugh with its cheesy humor and seems like it would be a fun way to get up in the morning.

How To Silence Your Mac’s Startup Chime

Chris Hauk, MacTrast

Overview Of SCM Tools

Macs In Chemistry

Mac Gems: Born To Hand Jive? Use Flutter To Control iTunes And Out-dance 'Em All

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

The app aims to let you control your music and Keynote slides with hand gestures and your FaceTime camera, with ambitious long-term goals for scrolling, swiping between screens, and more.

Apple Developer Center Outage Fixed 'Remote Code Execution' Flaw

Juli Clover, MacRumors

Apple has released new details on the security flaw that caused the Developer Center to be down for more than a week, noting via its Apple Web Server notifications page that a "remote code execution issue" was fixed.

The Best Free And Paid Text Editors For The Mac

Peter Cohen, iMore

YouTube 2.0 For iOS Released With Picture-in-Picture, Updated Design

Federico Viticci, MacStories

The big new feature of this version is picture-in-picture for videos, which allows you to keep watching a video while browsing or searching.

Hype 2.0 For Mac And Hype Reflect For iOS: HTML5 Interactive Design Tools Come Of Age!

Rene Ritchie, iMore

If you're looking to create HTML5 assets on the Mac, look no further. Hype 2.0 and Hype Reflect make it easier than ever.

Seemingly Benign “Jekyll” App Passes Apple Review, Then Becomes “Evil”

Dan Goodin, Ars Technica

The researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology used the technique to create what appeared to be a harmless app that Apple reviewers accepted into the iOS app store. They were later able to update the app to carry out a variety of malicious actions without triggering any security alarms. The app, which the researchers titled "Jekyll," worked by taking the binary code that had already been digitally signed by Apple and rearranging it in a way that gave it new and malicious behaviors.

Wacom Unveils Pressure-sensitive Intuos Creative Stylus For iPad

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

The stylus is a pressure sensitive device with 2,048 levels of sensitivity that Wacom says is as close to the experience of pen on paper as anyone has gotten on the iPad yet.

How To Move Files Between Accounts In OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

If you have documents saved in your account that you would like other users to access, then there are several approaches you can take.

Enable Time Zone Support In Calendar App For Mac OS X

OS X Daily

If you rely on Calendar app for just about anything and travel or work across time zones with any regularity, this is a worthwhile feature to turn on, particularly for those who also sync the calendars between OS X and iOS.

Apple Seems To Be Allowing 200 Test Devices Per Developer Account Now

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

While Apple has not yet updated its developer support documents officially announcing the change, I've been able to independently confirm the increase in allowed test devices with a number of developers.

Mac Gems: Winclone Is A Must-have Utility For Boot Camp Users

Dan Frakes, Macworld

This utility can create a disk image of your Mac’s Boot Camp partition, making it easy to back up that partition, restore it from a backup, or transfer it to another Mac.

Barnes & Noble Launches Nook Video Apps For iOS, Android, And Roku

Chris Welch, The Verge

Review: Plants Vs Zombies 2 Sticks To Its Roots, But Paywall Leaves Us Feeling Dead Inside

Chris Holt, Macworld

Despite a freemium model that nearly spoils the crop, PvZ2 is still a blue-ribbon mobile title with a charm and humor that is beyond garden-variety.

Apple Makes Changes To Affiliate Program

Ilene Hoffman, TUAW

Apple announced today it is bringing in a new affiliate program partner for its iTunes, App Store, iBooks Store and Mac App Store affiliate program. Performance Horizon Group (PHG) adds more countries (more than 100) and better reporting tools to the program.

From Art Book To iPad App: Josef Albers’ Classic Work Undergoes A ‘Magical’ Transformation

Elizabeth Connolly Martell, YaleNews

“Interaction of Color” — Josef Albers’ iconic book that taught legions of students and professionals alike how to think creatively about color — has been given a modern makeover as an iPad app, just in time for the 50th anniversary of its publication by Yale University Press.

BusyCal 2.5

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

BusyCal 2.5 offers more-granular calendar sharing privileges, public calendars, push syncing, Outlook categories, shared tasks, repeating tasks, shared-calendar notifications, rich text, and graphics.

Popular Physics-Based Puzzler World Of Goo Finally Updated With iPhone 5 Support

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

CuteDJPro Is New DJ Software For The Mac

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

iPad Puppy Training, Really

Miles Klee, Salon

Nowadays a new demographic has emerged for iPad app developers: animals. Yes, when the job of stimulating your household pet simply becomes too much, you can simply get them hooked on any number of games designed specifically to keep them busy (and away from whatever you’re doing that’s more important than loving your cat or dog first-hand).

Share Bucket Edits And Uploads Screenshots, Offers Tons Of Options

Shep Mcallister, Lifehacker

Screenshot apps are a dime a dozen, but Share Bucket offers a lot of flexibility, and lets you use it how you want to.

Deleting Zombie Photos From iPhoto

Iljitsch van Beijnum, Ars Technica

Sometimes iPhoto doesn't delete photos when you empty the iPhoto trash. It just removes them from its database so they're no longer visible without deleting the actual image files. Those files still use up disk space—to the tune of 10 GB in my case.

Voila 3.5

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

Global Delight has released Voila 3.5, adding Dropbox, Evernote, and Tumblr to its list of sharing destinations (as long as you’re running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion or later). The screen capture utility now includes an option to remember the last shape and location for image and video capturing, plus an option to capture windows without shadows.

Full For iPhone Is A Beautiful And Simplistic Way To Track And Maintain Personal Goals

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Review: StatsBar A Handy System Monitor That Lives In Your Mac's Menu Bar

Albert Filice, Macworld

The Perfect Organizational App For College

Topher Kessler, CNET

iStudiez Pro is a college student's best friend, with great ways to manage classes, assignments, deadlines, and more, all with a well-designed interface that makes it easy to use.

Mac Gems: Despite Its UI, Skype Is Still The Go-to App For Internet Communications

Marco Tabini, Macworld

Fruit Ninja And Jetpack Joyride Creator Halfbrick Soft-Launches Band Stars On iOS

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Band Stars is a Kairosoft-style freemium simulation game that has you forming a band, hitting the studio, and recording music to reach the top of the charts.

Apple's USB Adapter Trade-In Program Available Worldwide, Here Are The Prices

Joe White, AppAdvice

Google+ Update Kills The Messenger, Adds Google Drive And Google Apps Support

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Apple Begins Showing Mac Pro Teaser In Movie Theaters With 'Fall 2013' Announcement

Juli Clover, MacRumors

Plants Vs. Zombies 2: It's About Time (iOS) Review

Mike Andronico, Tom's Guide

While "Plants vs. Zombies" is built on a rhythm of and waiting, the sequel’s combat upgrades make the action more engaging.

Adjusting The OS X Security Settings

J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times

I downloaded a program from a Web site to run on my Mac, but the system won’t let me open and install it because of “security preferences.” What is this and is there a way around it?

Remotely Assembled Malware Blows Past Apple’s Screening Process

David Talbot, Technology Review

Mystery has long shrouded how Apple vets iPhone, iPad, and iPod apps for safety. Now, researchers who managed to get a malicious app up for sale in the App Store have determined that the company’s review process runs at least some programs for only a few seconds before giving the green light.

A Simple, Inexpensive Way To Create Personalized Launch Agents On Your Mac

Ron McElfresh, Noodlemac

How To Record Your Mac’s Screen Using QuickTime X

J. Glenn Künzler, MacTrast

Mac Gems: Perform Easy Edits To A Stack Of Photos With PhotoBulk

Jeff Sandstoe, Macworld

PhotoBulk 1.5 is a photo-editing app that provides a simple and easy way to process a bunch of images.

Evomail For iOS Updated With Support For Aliases, Bug Fixes, And More

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Apple Starts Doubling The Number Of Devices Developers Can Use To Test iOS Apps

Scott Buscemi, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple Pushes Out iTunes Update To Address iTunes In The Cloud Issues

Richard Devine, iMore

The bump to version 11.0.5 corrects an issue where iTunes in the Cloud would download or play unexpected items.

Apple Opens Graphics Card Replacement Program For Some Mid-2011 iMacs

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple Asks Devs To Prepare For New App Store Kids Category In iOS 7, Adds Age Ranges For Children

Benjamin Mayo, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple has sent out an email reminding developers about the new Kids category, originally announced at WWDC. The email explains that the category is intended to provide a ‘safe-haven’ for parents that want to find age appropriate apps for their children.

The (De-)evolution Of My Laptop Battery

If We Assume

My usage is the same, as far as I can tell. Some others have reported issues, describing dramatic battery decay in 2012 era Mac notebooks. Maybe these new batteries are just not built as well? My MacBook Pro had a capacity of 4600mAh, while the MacBook Air boasts a factory capacity of 6667mAh. Perhaps the engineering required to provide 45% more power for a computer almost half the size means the battery isn't as durable.

Review: Adobe Hits A Home Run With After Effects CC

Jeff Foster, Macworld

Bugs & Fixes: Back Up To Avoid iPhone Disasters

Ted Landau, Macworld

Take A Bite: Roger's Love Affair With Apple Computers

Chaz Ebert

At one point Roger faced a dilemma. He developed the Cinemania movie software with Microsoft and Bill Gates, whom he also admired. But Gates and Jobs had a very public falling out over their operating systems. Computer geeks within the industry were asking Roger to take sides. He was so passionate about the technologies that it almost felt like family members feuding, even though it had nothing to do with him.

Apple Appears To Be Hiring In China

Lorraine Luk, Wall Street Journal

Among the more than two hundred openings in China on professional network site LinkedIn, some of the eye-catching China-based positions include an environmental affairs program manager, a security specialist and a store specialist.

Passwarden Password Manager Updated For OS X, iOS

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Apple's E-Book Damages Trial Set to Begin in May

Chad Bray, Wall Street Journal

Review: Perfectly Clear iOS Photo Editor Both Stuns And Underwhelms

Jackie Dove, TechHive

While it provides some of the same image editing tools as its competitors, and is the fuel behind SmugMug's Camera Awesome, its unique and powerful method of improving flawed images often sets it apart from the crowd. But not always, at least not on the first go.

App Stores, Portals And Discovery

Benedict Evans

Markdown Text Editor 'Editorial' Launches For iPad With Workflow Automation Features

Juli Clover, MacRumors

Clipr: A Low-fuss OS X Pasting Utility

Erica Sadun, TUAW

Clipr offers a tiny, low-fuss utility that targets anyone looking for a fast, low-footprint solution for OS X clipboard management.

Plants Vs Zombies 2: First Look

Erica Sadun, TUAW

Minecraft - Pocket Edition Gets Sun, Moon, Stars And More In Latest Update

Joe White, AppAdvice

Apple Releases New App Store Review Guidelines With Updated Rules For Kids Apps, Gambling Apps

Juli Clover, MacRumors

The new section detailing apps for children under aged 13 specifies that such apps must include a privacy policy, may not include behavioral advertising (ads based on in-app activity, for example), and must ask for parental permission before allowing children to "link out of the app or engage in commerce." Apps in the Kids Category of the App Store must be made specifically for children "ages 5 and under, ages 6–8, or ages 9–11."

Fore! Super Stickman Golf 2 Update Adds Eight New Courses

Brent Dirks, AppAdvice

The update adds eight new courses to the wacky golf game. And along with video replay sharing, developer Noodlecake Studios has also unveiled new course obstacles and multi-player game modes.

Finish 2.0 For iPhone Adds Reminders, Rewards And More

Dave Caolo, TUAW

My favorite new feature is the "Bother Me" reminders. It's similar to my beloved Due in that it won't stop nagging you until you act. Finish reminds you hourly that a certain task must be completed. No more forgetting this and that.

Digg 5.1 Brings The Most Popular Stories To Your iPhone And iPad

Cody Fink, MacStories

Notability 5.0 Is A Noteworthy Update, Adds iCloud Sync And Universal Support For iPhone

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Mac Gems: Launchpad Manager Will Make You Actually Use OS X's Launchpad

Dan Miller, Macworld

You get the ability to cut and paste apps from one screen to another; to move selected apps from one page to another with a couple of clicks; to select all icons on a page with one click; and to remove selected icons altogether.

Better Code: No Time Like The Present To Use Xcode Storyboards

Gregory Dean, TechRepublic

Storyboards were first introduced in the October 2011 release of Xcode 4.2. As with many forward-thinking concepts, the adoption of storyboards by seasoned developers has been a slow process. Do storyboards help or hinder the development lifecycle? There are two camps as it relates to the advantages and usefulness of storyboards for developing the user interface of an iOS app. After all of the dust has settled, it seems that storyboards may offer developers a distinct advantage.

Run Windows Apps On Both OS X & Linux With CrossOver 12.5

Steve J. Vaughan-Nichols, ZDNet

What CrossOver gives you is easy, automated installation of Windows applications, and technical support. And in this latest version, the CrossOver interface has been improved so it's easier than ever to install and manage Windows applications.

It's About Time You Grabbed Plants Vs. Zombies 2, Now Available On iOS Worldwide

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Following its soft launch in Australia and New Zealand early last month, the game is now out in the U.S. App Store and presumably in the other App Stores around the globe.

Mac Gems: TaskAgent Lets You Sync And Edit Lists Using Dropbox

Dan Frakes, Macworld

Disney Introduces Infinity: Toy Box World Creator And Action! Video Apps For iPad

Steven Sande, TUAW

New App For Winos Invites You To Drync Up

Amber Bouman, Macworld

Launching with an updated inventory and shipping list on Tuesday, the Drync app allows users to track, share, and buy wine directly from the app. Wine aficionados can buy almost any wine instantly by simply snapping a photo of the label.

Yojimbo 4 Brings Syncing, Highlights iCloud Woes

TJ Luoma, TUAW

Bare Bones has decided to offer a syncing solution which will cost US$3 a month. The syncing is handled through Wasabi Sync which describes itself as "Core Data cloud syncing done right".

How To Move An Off Screen Window Back Onto The Active Mac Screen In OS X

OS X Daily

Ever had a window get lost partially off screen in OS X, where the window titlebars and close/minimize/maximize buttons are no longer accessible?

2013 iPhone Photography Awards Showcase Some Stunning Photos

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

Apple Releases AirPort Base Station And Time Capsule Firmware Update

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

How To Delete Duplicate Email Messages

Christopher Breen, Macworld

Popular AVPlayer Gets Enhanced Audio Controls In Latest Update

Joe White, AppAdvice

DirecTV App For iPad Gets Redesigned With New Look And New Navigation Features

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

PresenterCue For Mac OS X Displays A Speaker’s Remaining Time

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Nominari has announced presenterCue for Mac OS X. It’s a free (well, sorta) app that lets the user input a list of speakers, then show them their remaining time on multiple displays as they speak.

Contact Management App VipOrbit Hits Mac App Store

Mike Wehner, TUAW

Yelp For iOS Now Allows Full Reviews From iPhone Users

Juli Clover, MacRumors

How To Fill An Uneditable PDF Form In OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

A number of programs including Apple's default PDF handler "Preview," offer the ability to mark up a PDF document, and you can use this as the means to fill out an otherwise static PDF form.

Apple Acquires Matcha

John Paczkowski, All Things D

Carl Icahn Makes A Large Investment In Apple

Arik Hesseldahl, All Things D

Freshly Squeezed Reviews: ArtRage 4 For Mac OS X

Frank Petrie, Apple Daily Report

Best Cloud Storage Apps For iPhone And iPad: Dropbox, Google Drive, SugarSync, And More!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Daylite 4.3 Update Streamlines Business Management On iOS And OS X

Peter Cohen, iMore

Daylite is Marketcircle's business management software with project management, customer relationship management, scheduling and much more.

Mac Gems: MYStuff Pro 2.0 A Flexible Inventory Database

Marco Tabini, Macworld

MYStuff Pro is a database easy enough to use for most people, but has features for people who want a more complex database.

Apple Briefly Sells Entire Harry Potter Collection For $10 In iTunes

Lex Friedman, Macworld

If you didn’t already buy all the Harry Potter movies for $10, you’re too late.

PrintLife Mac Print Project App Adds New Greeting Card Features

Peter Cohen, iMore

The software helps you create greeting cards, labels, letterheads, gift tags, lists, and a variety of other print projects, and it comes bundled with 7.6 GB of artwork to help dress up your projects.

Daily iPhone App: 4 Snaps Is A Free Puzzler With A Social Twist

Mike Wehner, TUAW

After picking a partner, either by user ID or from a list of Facebook contacts, you and your friend take turns snapping sets of four photos to help the other player guess a specific word.

Apple Aerial Map Photos Blocked Over Oslo In Norway

Zoe Kleinman, BBC

There are security concerns about access to detailed views of government buildings, says newspaper Aftenposten.

Apple Selling 'Lord Of The Rings,' 'The Matrix' Trilogy, And Other Complete Series Starting At $9.99

Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge

A number of complete film series are available for $9.99 as a digital box set, including The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Matrix trilogy, the Austin Powers trilogy, all four Lethal Weapon films, and — perhaps the best deal of the bunch — the complete eight-film Harry Potter series.

Civilization V: Brave New World Review

Cliff Joseph, Macworld UK

Brave New World really epitomizes what the Civilization series is all about. There’s combat aplenty if that’s how you like your strategy games, but the political, religious and cultural elements that it adds to the mix create a game in which you really can develop an entire civilization, rather than just building up a big army. It may be rather complex for beginners, but Brave New World is a must-have expansion for existing Civ fans.

Microsoft Updates Skype With HD For iPhone And iPad, Adds Mobile BI App

Mark Hachman, TechHive

Apple To Support Third-party USB Power Plug Trade-ins Beyond U.S. & China

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

Over the past couple of days, Apple has updated its Support Page for the USB trade-in-program to note a few other supported regions and the corresponding discount pricing: Australia ($14 AUD), Canada ($11 CAD), France (10 €), Germany (10 €), Japan (￥1,000), and the United Kingdom (10 €).

Solving Apple ID Frustrations

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

If you use the iTunes Store, or any other Apple online service such as iCloud, you have an Apple ID. This is the email address associated with your Apple account. I get lots of questions about Apple IDs, and in this week’s column I answer a number of them.

Apple Adds Free iBook Offer To Apple Store App

John-Michael Bond, TUAW

The over-the-air update allows users to download Margaret Wise Brown's children's book Away in My Airplane as a free iBook.

Mac App Of The Week: File Shredder Helps You Securely Delete Files

Kelly Hodgkins, TUAW

File Shredder uses an algorithm to overwrite the file with data and erase it past the point of recovery.

Apple Offers Ebook Settlement Terms… In Europe

Adam C. Engst, TidBITS

Cleaning Up An Ebook Library With Calibre

Christpher Breen, Macworld

CBS Sports iOS App Gets Full iPad Support Including Live Video

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

Mac Gems: ReadKit Could Make You Forget About Google Reader

David Chartier, Macworld

ReadKit brings a great deal of style and customizable features to the newsreading table, while keeping most of it out of your way until you want it. It’s a great app for the post-Google-Reader world.

Five iCloud Email Tricks You Probably Missed

Kirk McElhearn, Macworld

ChronoSync 4.4 For OS X Offers A Fast, Flexible Tool For Synching And Back-ups

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

ChronoSync offers a way to synchronize or backup files and folders. You can synchronize between folders on your Mac, other Macs, PCs, external drives or anything you can mount on your Mac. The latest version (4.4) adds some iPad connectivity.

If It Makes A Sound… Huffduff It!

Patrick Rhone, Minimal Mac

It is a great service that just plain works. But, more than that, it allows me to be intentional about the things I listen to.

How To Bring iOS Apps Back To Your Home Screen

Rob Pegoraro, USA Today

There are a few different ways for apps to move on their own or even appear to disappear on an iOS device, and a friend discovered one of them. You could, too.

Quick Review Of iPhone Podcast Apps

Chambers Daily

I am using Downcast currently, but there is an opportunity for someone else to build the Reeder of podcast apps. Reeder is generally loved by everyone. It's easy to use, but highly powerful and customizable.

Lister 2 For iPhone: Shopping And Grocery Lists For The Overly Organized

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Lister 2 for iPhone lets you create shopping and grocery lists not only easily, but in a way that makes sorting them and finding what you're looking for simple. With support for Dropbox syncing, sharing, password protection, and more, it's a nice option if you want more control over your lists than what the native Reminders app gives you.

Review: LuckReader For Mac Takes A No-frills Approach To RSS Feeds

Jeff Sandstoe, Macworld

LuckNews is incredibly simple and easy to use. Its stripped-down but fast approach will appeal to some, but also off-put others.

Easy Redundant Mac Backups With Time Machine And Multiple Drives

OS X Daily

Circle Sept. 10 On Your Calendar For Apple’s Big iPhone Event

Ina Fried, All Things D

Worms 3 Now Available As An iOS Exclusive

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

The worms are back in Worms 3 with lots of weapons and new challenges for you to work your way through. Your team of worms will have to battle enemies in order to advance using bazookas and all kinds of other weapons. You can pick it up now as a universal download for both iPhone and iPad.

Mac Gems: Multimon Makes For Better Multiple Monitor Support In OS X

Josh Centers, Macworld

All Developer Center Services Back Online, Members Receiving One Month Extension For Downtime

Jordan Kahn, 9 To 5 Mac

The History of the "Boo-Dah-Ling" Sound

Kelly Jacklin

Now a normal person would have just started playing around on the keyboard. But I'm not normal, and decidedly not a keyboardist... So I went all "left brain" on this one (I'm normally used to avoiding that side of the brain when playing guitar or recording), and decided to write a program to generate the various permutations of the notes.

Review: Photo Ninja 1.0 Is The Dark Horse In The Raw Converter Sweepstakes

William Porter, Macworld

Photo Ninja, a new Raw-image converter and photo-processing app by PictureCode, makes a very good first impression. Used alone or in conjunction with other popular photo-management and photo-editing tools, it’s a capable program, and serious photographers should take notice.

T-Mobile Pulls iPhone 4S, iPhone 5 From Its “No Money Down” Promotion

Ina Fried, All Things D

The 2013 MacBook Air Review (11-Inch)

Vivek Gowri, AnandTech

The battery life is awesome, it really changes the way you approach the system, and I still love this form factor, but it’s hard to look at this and not compare it to an Ultrabook with a far better display for the same price.

How To Turn Your iPhone Or iPad Into A Remote Control Device For Your Mac

Ron McElfresh, Noodlemac

Words Is The Wrongly Named But Very Clever All-in-One RSS Reader For Mac

Jeffrey Mincey, Bohemian Boomer

Words does something unique. With each RSS subscription, Words grabs the entire article behind the title and summary, and renders it in Read-it-Later style, then drops it into the inbox so you can, well, read it later.

Review: Withings Pulse Shows Heart

Lex Friedman, Macworld

The Pulse is a $100 tracker that measures steps, elevation, distance, calories burned, heart rate, and sleep quality. It’s a small, rounded rectangular, solid-feeling piece of black plastic, with a bright blue LED display. It weighs eight grams.

How To Secure And Encrypt Your OS X Mail Messages With GPGMail 2

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

GPGMail 2 employs PGP, is available for Mac (and Windows), and can help you make sure your emails are only read by the intended recipient.

Apple’s Evolving View Of “Pro”

Ken Segall's Observatory

In truth though, Apple is walking to a place that’s entirely new — and asking the pros to walk with them. They’re betting that people who love to create and innovate will appreciate a super-powerful computer designed in the same spirit.

Email Phishing Campaign Uses $200 Apple Store Gift Card As lure

MacNN

A new email-based phishing campaign is using a fake $200 Apple Store gift card as bait, says security firm Webroot. The message prompts people to click a download link or open an attachment; doing either will actually install Java-based malware, which is then used to steal personal data from a computer. The data could be used for crimes like identity theft.

Regular People Have No Idea How To Manage Photos On Their iPhone

Chambers Daily

KeyMe For iOS Lets You Digitize Your House Keys For Safekeeping

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

A new app called KeyMe has launched that allows users to scan copies of their physical keys for safekeeping. Should those keys ever become lost, users can log into their app and order a duplicate key right away.

Hands-on: Tastemade Turns Everyone Into A Food TV Star

Marco Tabini, Macworld

The Tastemade app takes the pain out of generating good content, and it does it for free—which gives the company an opportunity to attract users who have the talents but not the means to be the next great food critic, without the need for the massive resources of a TV network behind them.

Explore The History Of Disney's Animated Films In The 'Disney Animated' App

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

5 Essential Tools That Every iTunes User Should Have

Jonathan Seff, Macworld

If you use iTunes regularly, you probably have a litany of frustrations with the software, as well as a list of “I wish it did this” items. I know I do. Here are five tools that will help bend iTunes to your will.

Apple Pays Dearly For Price-Fixing

New York Times

At a hearing on Friday, the department will argue that its plan to remedy Apple’s misconduct will “restore lost competition.” In a narrow sense it may, but the problem with this case all along was that the department ignored the potentially bigger anticompetitive force in the e-book market — Amazon — while focusing on Apple.

Mac Gems: Can't Wait For Mavericks? TotalFinder Offers Finder Tabs And More

David Chartier, Macworld

Apple’s forthcoming Mavericks update to OS X will finally bring some new features to the Finder. But BinaryAge’s TotalFinder 1.4 still offers the real power tools for users who work with files frequently and need more control (or users who have a Mac that they won’t be upgrading to Mavericks).

Art Text 2 … And I Know What I Like

Frank Petrie, Apple Daily Report

Review: Pro Tools 11

Zach McNees, SonicScoop

Pro Tools 11 is now utilizing the power inside my current machine so much more efficiently that it’s likely going to save me several thousands of dollars in computer upgrades alone this year.

Logic Of Logic Pro X

Mark Webster, The New Zealand Herald

Logic Pro X looks a lot bolder and more visual, easier to see at a glance what's happening or where you are, and things that you now click on often open up logical windows or features that you'd expect, rather than do nothing as was sometimes the case with Logic 9.

Roku App Now Beams Videos From Your iOS Device To Your TV

Jonathan Seff, Macworld

Hightail (For iPhone)

Jeffrey L. Wilson, PC Magazine

Who among us hasn't felt the sting that comes when an email fails to reach its intended recipient due to a mammoth file attachment? Hightail (formerly known as YouSendIt) specializes in remedying that problem by allowing users to upload large files to its servers and then share the simple, lightweight generated link with others.

Mac Gems: iDraw Has Surprising Horsepower For An Affordable Graphics App

Nathan Alderman, Macworld

Voice Dream For Instapaper And Pocket Text To Speech

David Sparks, MacSparky

If you’ve ever wanted to have your iPhone read out loud entries from your Instapaper or Pocket lists, Voice Dream is exactly what you’re looking for. It grabs any selected article and reads it to you out loud.

MixBit For iPhone: Shooting, Editing And Sharing Bits Of Video

Steven Sande, TUAW

While you can shoot video bits as short as one second long and up to 16 seconds long, you can also stitch up to 256 of those bits together to create an hour-long opus.

Rdio, Now With Better Stations And ‘You FM’

Cody Fink, MacStories

Hands On: Shutterfly Photo Story For iPad Makes Photo Books That Talk

Jackie Dove, Macworld

A new iPad app called Shutterfly Photo Story lets you use your tablet to create both online and hard copy photo books, complete with your own audio narration.

Boundless Brings Text Book Alternatives And Study Materials Right To Your iPhone

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

iTunes In The Cloud Movies Hits Austria, Estonia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Switzerland

Richard Devine, iMore

All The New Stuff In IFTTT For iOS, And What You Can Do With It

Thorin Klosowski, Lifehacker

The mobile app adds three new channels to IFTTT: iOS Photos, iOS Contacts, and iOS Reminders. It doesn't look like much at a glance, but those three channels enable you to do all sorts of cool new things.

Evernote Review

Molly Klinefelter, Laptop Magazine

Although we wish it had handwriting recognition -- a feature many other note-taking apps have -- Evernote benefits from an excellent organizational structure and slick syncing capabilities.

Airport Extreme

Thomas Brand, Egg Freckles

Microsoft Offers 15GB Of Free SkyDrive Storage For One Year To iCloud Users Losing Their Free 20GB

Joseph Keller, iMore

Publishers Object To U.S. Remedy In Apple E-book Case

Associated Press

"Rather, under the guise of punishing Apple, they effectively punish the settling defendants by prohibiting agreements with Apple using an agency model," lawyers for the publishers said.

How To Quickly Lock Your Mac To Keep Your Chrome Passwords Safe!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Since there's renewed attention on Google Chrome not securely storing passwords, lots of people may be wondering what they can do to prevent people that have physical access to their computer from stumbling across their login information.

Deus Ex: The Fall Update Supports iPad 2

Yoni Heisler, TUAW

Thoughts On Twitter's New Two-Factor Authentication.

Authy Blog

We publically tested this about a year ago and realized that showing the IP, location, browser or any other data wasn't enough for people to determine if they should or not authorize a request. Further this data is easy to spoof (like location), so if the attacker is familiar with the user, he can easily select "good" values to further trick the user into authorizing the request.

Whatsapp Adds Easy To Use Push-to-talk Voice Messaging

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

Facebook Messenger For iPhone Adds Instagram Sharing

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Mac Gems: OptiPNG Makes PNG Files Smaller Without Losing Image Quality

Josh Centers, Macworld

Obama's Apple Rescue

Michael Phillips, New Yorker

MacBook Air 11-Inch (2013) Review: 'An Almost Perfect Portable Package'

Hunter Skipworth, Digital Spy

For the first time since the Air's launch, the baby of the range feels like it is powerful enough to be the only computer you need. Its portability is unparalleled, and that 9-hour battery life is a real boon on those who travel a lot with work.

Chrome’s Insane Password Security Strategy

Elliott Kember

Google isn’t clear about its password security.

Heard Review

Michael Simon, Mac Life

Heard is like a rewind button for your life's listenable moments.

Review: Belkin’s Dyle TV Receiver Connects Your iPad To Your Local Television networks

K. T. Bradford, Digital Trends

Vox For Mac Review: Your Lightweight Yet Powerful iTunes Alternative

Richard Devine, iMore

How To Flatten PDF Forms With Preview In OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

If you need to save a filled-out PDF form so the content is no longer editable, you can do so with Preview in OS X.

Mac Gems: Glui Is The Screenshot App You Didn't Know You Needed

Serenity Caldwell, Macworld

Ikea Introduces Augmented Reality App With 2014 Catalog To See Rooms Furnished

Kaylie Moise, Macgasm

Airmail For Mac Updated With Multiple Signature Support, Better Label Management, Performance Improvements, And More

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore

Audiophile Music Player Offers Better Audio For Your iPad

Mel Martin, TUAW

The free Audiophile Music Player app for the iPad is an attractive and great-sounding way to improve iPad audio if you are connected to external speakers or headphones. Speakers can be the plug-in type, or connected via Bluetooth or AirPlay.

AMBER Alert Usability

Craig Hockenberry, Furbo.org

And if you’re like most people, you had no idea what it meant. Considering it’s a broadcast to locate missing children, that’s a bad thing. Let’s examine the usability of this alert and think about how this system can be improved.

Twitter iOS App Adds New Authentication Feature, Gallery And List Support

Mike Wehner, TUAW

Chief among the new features is the option to add a two-factor login verification system to ensure your account isn't used without your permission. The extra layer of authentication requires you to have your iPhone with you whenever you log in to Twitter by sending a push notification with a special code to unlock your account.

Apple Airs New ‘FaceTime Every Day’ Television Ad

Dom Esposito, AppAdvice

The new ad titled, “FaceTime Every Day,” revolves around people using FaceTime on an iPhone in different situations.

Philips Expanding Hue Range With New LightStrips And Bloom Bulbs

Matt Brian, The Verge

iTunes Tip: Choose Which Types Of Content Display In The iTunes Source List

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

If you have removed all of a specific type of content, or if you simply don’t want to display it in the iTunes source list, you can go to iTunes’ General preferences and uncheck the items you no longer want to see.

Chatology - Improving Mac Messaging

David Sparks, MacSparky

Chatology indexes your messages. It keeps track of who you’ve chatted with and what was said. It also remembers when the conversations took place and any pictures or links that may have exchanged.

Mac Gems: Be A Better MacBook Battery Manager With Battery Health

James Galbraith, Macworld

If you need the most out of your laptop’s battery, the more information you have about your computer’s energy demands and conditions, the better. Battery Health offers a wealth of such information, laid out in an attractive, unobtrusive style. And for free, this app is hard to beat.

Apple Subsidiary FileMaker Reportedly Lays Off 20 Amid Restructuring

Mikey Campbell, AppleInsider

Text Panel Effects New Title/effects Package For Final Cut Pro X

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Apple Now Requiring Cover Art From Internet Radio Providers Apparently For iTunes Radio

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Apple may be planning on integrating Internet radio stations into iTunes Radio, in addition to the service’s preloaded and custom stations.

This is suggested by an email being sent by the company to independent Internet radio providers, asking them to submit cover art for their respective stations.

Following Electrocution Controversy, Apple To Offer USB Power Adapter Replacements

Mark Gurman, 9 To 5 Mac

The replacement program will allow anyone who feels uncomfortable with their adapter to replace it with an official unit for a discounted price of $10. The option will be available until October 18th of this year. Customers must bring in their corresponding device in order to be applicable.

Good PR by Apple.

Official AdSense App For iOS And Android Released By Google

Kaylie Moise, Macgasm

Today Google has released an official AdSense app for both iOS and Android devices, now letting users keep track of their AdSense account data and earnings while on the go.

Weather Or Not: Minutely Can Tell You If You'll Need A Sweater

Amber Bouman, Macworld

Minutely provides users with crowd-sourced weather results displayed via real-time 3D images.

Tencent's WeChat Updated To Version 5.0 With New Sticker Shop And Other Features

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Vox 1.0 Makes Beautiful Music

Brett Terpstra, TUAW

The short version of this post: Vox is a music player with a beautiful interface and an elegant feature set. I love it.

Spotify Announces 'Browse' Curated Playlist Feature On iOS

Michael Grothaus, TUAW

Create A Spark And Show Your Flair With The Newly Updated Lango Messaging App

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

OpenOffice 4.0

Agen G. N. Schmitz, TidBITS

The biggest visible change is the new Sidebar user interface, which brings context-sensitive panels that change properties according to the current editing task. Additionally, developers have been given a framework to build extensions to the Sidebar.

Five Best Online Backup Services

Alan Henry, Lifehacker

If you're backing up your data but you're not saving it offsite, you're putting it at risk. If something happens to your home or electronics, all that data could be lost. That's why there are tons of affordable, easy-to-use online backup services that you can send your data to seamlessly for safe keeping.

Five Apps That Could Help Sharpen The Brain

Jessica Naziri, Los Angeles Times

Mac App Notes: iStat Menus Lets You Keep An Eye On Your Mac

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

A glance at my menu bar tells me how fast a download is coming into my Mac, or whether my processors are maxing out.

How To Recover The Password Of Your AirPort Extreme, AirPort Express, Or Time Capsule Base Station

IClarified

How To Master iOS Security: 5 Simple Ways To Increase Data Protection And Privacy

Rene Ritchie, iMore

Adding security does require more time and effort than going without, but nowhere nearly as much time and effort as it takes to recover after your stuff is spied, stolen, or otherwise violated.

Review: Apple MacBook Air 13-Inch (2013)

Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla, Canadian Reviewer

Today’s 13-inch MacBook Air exemplifies a product that’s been constantly refined, improved and updated while maintaining all the best features and elements that have made it arguably one of the best notebooks of all time.

Making The Switch From GarageBand To Logic Pro X

Mark Crump, GigaOM

The learning curve might seem steep, but as I found out, it’s not that bad. Here’s how I upgraded from GarageBand and what I like and don’t like about Logic Pro X.

Obama Administration Vetoes Ban On Sale Of Some Apple iPhones, iPads

Brent Kendall and Ian Sherr, Wall Street Journal

U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman made the decision to veto the ban on the Apple devices, citing concerns about patent holders gaining "undue leverage" as well as potential harm to consumers and competitive conditions in the U.S. economy.

How Objective-C Messaging Works

Dan Tomlinson

Mac Gems: Free Up Your Mac's RAM With Memory Clean

Chris Barylick, Macworld

Narrato App Updated With Support For Multiple Journals Plus Other Improvements

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Bubble Chart Pro For Mac OS X Floats To Version 5.0

Dennis Sellers, Apple Daily Report

Bubble Chart Pro, which lets you create bubble charts, has been revved to version 5.0. New features include custom legends for tracking groups of bubbles, ability to use short text and date values in charts, common U.S. and European number formats, and more.

Review: Photoshop Touch Brings Hardcore Image Editing To iOS And Android

Jackie Dove, TechHive

Photoshop Touch isn't for everyone. Photoshop users will likely want to have Photoshop Touch as part of their editing toolset, but non-Photoshop users looking for mobile photo editing for social networking will want to go with something easier and more intuitive.

Nokia Photo Transfer For Mac Makes Media Transfer A 1-Click Affair

Chris Burns, SlashGear

My Muppets Show Review

Rob Rich, 148Apps

Djay 2 Review

Ruairi O'Gallchoir, 148Apps

More experienced and amateur DJs alike will appreciate how fun and simple this app makes creating fun and toe-tapping remixes.

DevJuice: New York Times Posts Objective-C Style Guide

Erica Sadun, TUAW

In a piece called Objectively Stylish, the New York Times announced that it has codified Objective-C-style conventions and posted a style guide to GitHub.

Rymdkapsel

Cody Fink, MacStories

It’s Tetris. It’s an RTS strategy. It’s a tower defense game. It’s a race against the clock. It’s endless. It’s all of these things.

Apple's Store App Now Offering App Freebies

Marco Tabini, Macworld

If you like free stuff—and who doesn’t?!—you may want to take another look at the Apple Store app for iPhone, through which the Cupertino company will treat you to a nice gift.

The Apple Store app is not available, I think, in countries that do not have physical Apple Stores.

Apple Not Happy About DoJ E-Book Solutions, Gives Snappy 31-Page Response

Kaylie Moise, Macgasm

"Plaintiffs propose a sweeping and unprecedented injunction as a tool to empower the government to regulate Apple’s businesses and potentially affect Apple’s business relationships with thousands of partners across several markets."

Apple OKs Pre-teen iTunes Accounts Upon School Request

Martyn Williams, IDG News Service

Apple had updated its terms and conditions to reflect an upcoming program that will allow schools to create accounts for young children once they’ve obtained “verifiable parental consent.”

The change is being matched by new mobile device management (MDM) options that will give teachers greater capabilities to control pupils’ iPads.

Parents still will not be able to create iTunes accounts (legally) for their children.

Justice Department Wants Apple To Terminate Existing Book Deals And Compete On Price

Chris Welch, The Verge

The proposal was submitted by the Justice Department along with 33 state attorneys general today, and calls for Apple to terminate its deals with the five publishers involved in the original suit. Further, for a period of five years, Apple would essentially be barred from signing fixed pricing agreements with ebook distributors.

But it doesn't end there: the Department of Justice wants Apple to let competing ebook retailers link directly to their online stores within their respective iOS applications.

Burpple 2.0 Brings New Design And New Features To Popular Social Food Guide App

Aldrin Calimlim, AppAdvice

Burpple’s new, Foursquare-like place pages let you discover restaurants and cafes to try.

Mac App Notes: CoverSutra, The Ultimate iTunes Controller

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

While I spend a lot of time in my iTunes library, CoverSutra saves me plenty of time by giving me quick access to basic controls and simple searches.

Motion Composer 1.6.1 – Part 1 (Introduction)

Scott Siegling

Todoist For iPad

PC World

Todoist provides an outwardly simple to-do list service, with myriad advanced features available to its more organised (or obsessive) users.

Tackle Stubborn Disk Partitioning In OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

If partitioning a drive with Disk Utility gives you unmount or resource busy errors, there may be workarounds you can use.

It’s Baaack! A Classic Mac Utility For Mac OS X. And It’s Free

Jeffrey Mincey, Bohemian Boomer

FinderPop both replicates and expands upon the time honored Apple Menu Items folder. To refresh your memory or bring you up to speed on one of the classic Mac’s best features, it was a folder where aliases could be dropped into to give you one click navigation to any file or folder on the Mac.

How To: Access Stunning Hi-res OS X Screensaver Images To Use As Wallpaper

Ben Lovejoy, 9 To 5 Mac

Pebble Adds Gmail Notification Support To iOS App, But It's Nowhere Near Instant

Chris Welch, The Verge

The Moving Timeline Keynote Trick

David Sparks, MacSparky

In order to create a timeline that moves, you simply need to make a timeline bigger than a single slide and then stack them next to each other. Then you can use the Push transition to make it appear as if the timeline itself is moving when all you are really doing is transitioning from one slide to the next.

Mac Gems: Clear Day Beautifully Portrays Weather Information

Jeff Sandstoe, Macworld

The menu bar icon provides the basic weather information that most people would need: temperature, humidity, wind speeds, and the chance of rain. However, if you’re a weather aficionado and want as much possible meteorological information as possible, then you’ll want to actually open the app.

Apple Reminding Former MobileMe Subscribers That Complimentary Storage Upgrade Ends September 30

Scott Buscemi, 9 To 5 Mac

Former subscribers of MobileMe, the $99/year iCloud predecessor, received 20 GB complimentary storage upgrades when making the switch to iCloud. Apple additionally extended this upgrade until September 30, 2013. Now, Apple is reminding those users, via email, that the complimentary storage will come to an end shortly.

Photowerks Enhances Apple’s Photos App With Smart Albums

Federico Viticci, MacStories

Photowerks, free on the App Store, enhances Apple’s default solution with sorting options and smart albums available today to iOS 6 users.

Quip Lets You Collaborate On Documents In Real Time On iPhone, iPad, And The Web

Joseph Keller, iMore

Apple Recently Acquired Low-Energy Chipmaker Passif

Jessica Lessin

Passif develops communication chips that use very little power. Its technology, which includes a radio that works with a low-energy version of Bluetooth called Bluetooth LE, is promising for health-monitoring and fitness devices that need extra-long battery life.

Downcast For Mac | Review

Chris De Jabet, Techēse

Best New Apps: 'Rymdkapsel'

Andrew Webster, The Verge

Rymdkapsel looks simple and plays slow, but it’s one of the best strategy games I’ve played in a long time. The game is all about expansion. Your team of tiny white squares starts out on a small platform floating in space, and the goal is to expand that platform as far as possible. You’ll need to produce resources like food and minerals, add new members to your crew, examine mysterious artifacts to gain new abilities, and build defenses to protect against regularly scheduled alien attacks. There’s also a puzzle element — new additions to your budding space colony come in the shape of Tetris pieces, so it’s a challenge to come up with the ideal set-up for all of the different rooms. But most of the strategy comes from your ability to balance exploration with defense, while keeping an ever-vigilant eye on your resources.

SlideShark Is An Easy Way To Broadcast PowerPoints Over The Web

Mel Martin, TUAW

You can upload a PowerPoint file from your iOS device, or any computer through a web portal. Then you email links to others and they can view your presentation on any device with a web browser.

Review: Adobe Dreamweaver CC Makes CSS More Visual, Less Coder-friendly

Alan Stafford, Macworld

Rovio’s Bad Piggies Goes Free For iPhone And iPad As Apple’s App Of The Week

Seth Weintraub, 9 To 5 Mac

Use LaunchBar To Launch AppleScripts For iTunes

Kirk McElhearn, Kirkville

Launching scripts in this manner merely saves you from accessing the scripts menu in iTunes, but if you like to keep your hands on the keyboard, it will save you a few clicks. If you run certain scripts often, it is a good way to get to them quickly.

Editing And Annotating PDF Files With Preview

Christopher Breen, Macworld

And while it’s no substitute for Adobe Acrobat Pro as a PDF document creator and editor, it has some useful talents of its own. We’ll explore those talents now.

Apple Does Offer Upgrade Pricing In The App Store. It's Full Retail Pricing They've Obliterated.

Rene Ritchie, iMore

So, it's not that Apple has failed to create a mechanism for upgrade pricing on the App Store at all - it's that they've succeeded in obliterating full retail pricing. Everything is now upgrade-level pricing, all the time, for everyone. No upgrade sales, just "everyday low prices" for all.

Five Free Microsoft Project Alternatives

Susan Harkins, TechRepublic

If you're supporting a small organization with an even smaller budget, consider one of these free software management solutions.

Tackle Finder Launching Errors In OS X

Topher Kessler, CNET

If the Finder in your user account refuses to open, there are a couple of steps you can take to clear settings files and have it open normally.

Testing Google’s Chromecast For Apple Users

Josh Centers, TidBITS

The lack of optical audio kills it for me, as well as the current lack of apps and crippling lag. However, if you own Android devices or are curious about digital content on your TV, the Chromecast is an inexpensive way to dive in — once Google has more in stock.

Prizmo (For Mac)

Edward Mendelson, PC Magazine

What makes Prizmo for OS X different is that it's designed from the start to work with cameras as well as scanners. If you connect an iPhone or iPad to your Mac by a USB cable, you can snap a picture and Prizmo will instantly capture it and try to extract text from it. If you connect any other camera to your Mac, it lets you browse through the photos in the camera's internal storage and select one or more pictures that you want to process with OCR.

Camera+ For iPhone And iPad Goes Hollywood With New Effects Pack

Joseph Keller, iMore

Camera+ for both iPhone and iPad have been updated, adding new, Hollywood-themed effects pack, as well as adding effects layering to the iPhone app.

Mac Gems: Pixa Is An Image Organizer Made For Creative Work

David Chartier, Macworld

Pixa’s real magic comes from its excellent collection, organization, and export tools.

Best Password Manager Apps For iPhone And iPad: 1Password, mSecure, LastPass, And More!

Allyson Kazmucha, iMore