admin @ December 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Come with us as we travel back exactly one year into the past (we won’t be here long; humour us). Nobody outside Apple and AT&T knows about the iPhone, and mock-ups of the fabled ‘widescreen iPod’ have been circulating on the web for months.
People have been murmuring too about a touchscreen iPod, and [...]
admin @ December 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Apple likes to think it’s the oracle of technology; rays of light shining forth from its Cupertino offices, Steve Jobs with a halo around his head.
But oddly, while its products are angelic, its press office is more secretive than the USA’s Homeland Security.
Apple has a strict policy, which it repeats ad infinitum: it won’t discuss [...]
admin @ December 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Nothing is perfect, let’s make that clear from the start. Everything can be criticised. And although I think Apple’s interfaces generally are the best, that doesn’t mean they aren’t flawed. (Just a lot less flawed than the alternatives.)
I’m writing this because my last post on this subject kicked off some interesting comments in some usability [...]
admin @ December 7, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Logic Studio is Apple’s most powerful and complete music software package to date. It comprises a suite of tools: Logic Pro 8, a professional sequencer; Soundtrack Pro 2, a post-production program; MainStage, a live performance application; and a selection of superb utilities, instruments, effects and loops.
At the heart of Logic Studio is Logic Pro 8, [...]
admin @ November 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
With very little fanfare, Apple finally upgraded the last of its WiFi products still to be using 802.11g to the faster and wider-coverage standard, 802.11n.
Actually, 802.11g is still technically the current standard, as 802.11n is yet to be formally ratified, but it’s sufficiently well developed that we’re comfortable recommending it; in any case, the [...]
admin @ October 26, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Getting a Mac on the UK high street used to be tricky.
A handful of Mac resellers lurked in forgotten corners of cities, and only a scant few, such as Square’s New Oxford Street store, were located sensibly and stood out.
The problem was also that Mac resellers were rarely geared towards newcomers [...]
admin @ October 22, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Sure, the MacBook looks great, and the fact that there’s no longer such an obvious style divide between it and the more powerful MacBook Pro models is big news, but for our money the new unibody case of the MacBook Pro marks a bigger shift between the old and new MacBook Pros than between the [...]
admin @ October 21, 2008 # No Comment Yet
At first glance the new Apple MacBook looks like a cross between its iMac and MacBook Air. It’s got the aluminum body and black keyboard reminiscent of the MacBook Air, but it’s chunkier and its 13.3-inch (viewable) glossy screen comes complete with an iMac-style black border.
It’s available in two product SKUs – a 2.0GHz Intel [...]
admin @ October 8, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Apple promised big things for the launch of iTunes 8 last September, and what did we get? A music recommendation engine and another layer of UI glossiness in the Grid view. Genius? Not really.
What we really hoped for and expected was a complete ground-up revamp that prepped iTunes for the future. Why?
Because iTunes, as we’ve [...]
admin @ October 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
We’ll say it upfront, right at the start of this review, that everyone should definitely upgrade their Macs to Leopard. It’s simply the best version of OS X yet, and there’s no reason we’ve found not to upgrade, provided your Mac meets the minimum system requirements. Leopard isn’t a Windows Vista-style bloatware addition that nobody [...]