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WD Introduces New My Passport Studio Portable Drives for Mac Owners

WD Introduces New My Passport Studio Portable Drives for Mac Owners

 
WD®, the world’s leader in external storage solutions, today introduced its new My Passport(TM) Studio(TM) portable drives featuring the super-fast FireWire® 800 interface and a customizable e-label that’s always visible, even when the drive is unplugged. Sporting a sleek and stylish design, the new high-performance My Passport Studio drives are formatted for Mac® computers, compatible [...]

Thought Boards on a Mac – iWorking Creatively with iWork

Thought Boards on a Mac – iWorking Creatively with iWork

Being a person who A. uses a computer and B. at least tries to have an occasional original thought, I have tried many of these packages, with a varying degree of success. But I have found them to be either too rigid in their design or too alien to what ticks inside my own head. That is, until I stumbled upon something on a Mac that works well for me. That creative program suite is iWork from Apple.

BlackBerry to Laptop Tethering Made Easy

BlackBerry to Laptop Tethering Made Easy

Searching the internet for methods of tethering your phone to a laptop can be overwhelming. There are dozens of ideas out there depending on your phone model, service and software. Some look easy, some look complicated, some look illegal, and some look like they’ll end up costing you your first born child in [...]

be.ez Debuts LE rush Notebook Bag Collection

be.ez, designers of stylish accessories for the mobile lifestyle, is proud to announce the LE rush notebook bag collection custom-fit for MacBook Pro 13.3” and 15.4” models. The LE rush features a lightweight, slim, and stylish design available in 3 color choices: LE rush Black Coffee, LE rush Lime Park, and LE rush Lagoon Dream.
Each [...]

Apple Tips #5 -Recovering 5GB of Hard Drive Space in Intel Macs Running Leopard

Apple Tips #5 -Recovering 5GB of Hard Drive Space in Intel Macs Running Leopard

Mac laptops don’t come with the biggest hard drives in the world. No laptops to, but Macs are hanging in there in the lower end of what’s standard for a notebook, particularly within their price range. A standard MacBook starts at 250GB, which is up from the 120GB drive that shipped last year. [...]

Apple Tips #4: Play Windows Games on Your Mac

Apple Tips #4: Play Windows Games on Your Mac

Hello there everyone! It’s that time of the week for quick and handy Apple tricks. This week I’ve got one that is dear to my heart. As a lifelong gamer, one of my biggest qualms about being a Mac user is that the majority of my favorite PC games never make it [...]

Apple Tips #3 – Ejecting a Stuck Disc from a Mac Superdrive

Apple Tips #3 – Ejecting a Stuck Disc from a Mac Superdrive

It’s all about discs today, folks.

You know what’s snappy? Having a CD/DVD Superdrive on your Mac that is nothing more than a little slit on the side. It’s unobtrusive and stylish, and oh so fun to glide a disc into and wait for that moment when it grabs hold with its little motor [...]

Genius Easypen i405 Graphics Tablet Review

Genius Easypen i405 Graphics Tablet Review

With today’s modern computers, the medium in which we interact with them has grown from simple text to media rich compositions, serving to both entertain and to convey information on any myriad of topics. In fact, the medium has so outgrown the simple printed word that many of us find it advantageous to include charts, pictures, and yes even drawings and illustrations in our own works.

Apple Tips #1 – Six Quick iPod / iPhone Tips & Tricks

Apple Tips #1 – Six Quick iPod / iPhone Tips & Tricks

We’re going to be starting a new feature here at iGadgetLife, and we promise you’re going to love it more than that $12 check you got from your grandmother on your birthday. Once a week, we’ll dish out some handy tips and tricks related to anything Apple; from the iPhone and iPod to the [...]

14 Mac Safari Plugins That Won’t Cost You a Cent

14 Mac Safari Plugins That Won’t Cost You a Cent

Some Mac users love Safari. Others see it as the bane of internet browsers. Some use it out of respect for the Apple brand – it’s what comes on the machine, so it is pure Mac. Some use it because they appreciate its simplicity. Some hate it for the same reasons; [...]

Google Chrome for Mac is on its way

Google Chrome for Mac is on its way

Google Chrome for Mac
Great news for all you Mac users out there that have been desperate to hear when Google’s web browser Google Chrome will be available on your Apple computers, as a developer version has been released.

Although this is far from being a complete working browser, its a good sign to show that us [...]

Tweetie for Mac launches Monday 20th April

Tweetie for Mac launches Monday 20th April

Get Tweetie for your Mac
For all you Twitter users out there, you may have heard of a very slick iPhone app called Tweetie, well now atebits, the team behind it,  have announced that their Tweetie for Mac (aka BigBird) will launch on Monday 20th April.

Tweetie for the iPhone has a gorgeous interface, allowing multiple Twitter [...]

Demand Five now for Macs

Demand Five now for Macs

Mac users rejoice – Five have updated their online TV catch-up service Demand Five to stream in Flash, meaning that you can all now watch your favourite Five TV shows on your lovely Apple Macs!

Mac users have a tendancy to be forgotten about, or not supported for a whole host of services.  The BBC first [...]

Google Picasa Now Available for Mac

It has been a long time coming, but today Google finally announced that the popular Windows Photo Management tool Picasa is now available for Macs (in beta). I wonder how this will compare to the already established iPhoto?
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDKFjc3_wrk
Download Picasa for Mac.

BBC iPlayer Desktop for Mac Now Available

BBC iPlayer Desktop for Mac Now Available

Great news people – a year after the launch of the highly successful BBC iPlayer comes the announcement that the much anticipated BBC iPlayer Desktop for Mac is finally available for download!
The new version of the BBC iPlayer Desktop launched in Beta today uses Adobe Air meaing that the application is platform netural and will [...]

Nokia Multimedia Transfer for Mac Updated

Nokia Multimedia Transfer for Mac Updated

Nokia’s Multimedia Transfer Application for Apple Macs has been updated to v1.3.
The application that allows you to sync the content (images, video and music) on your Nokia Nseries handset now supports syncing of bookmarks from your Safari web browser as well as general bug fixes.

Download the latest version of Nokia Multimedia Transfer.

Free DivX Pro for Mac

Free DivX Pro for Mac

For a limited time DivX are giving away free DivX Pro licenses for Mac users.  All you need to do is provide an email address and a serial number will be emailed to you.
DivX Pro normally retails for £12.99 and comes with DivX Converter, DivX Pro Codec, DivX Player and DivX Web Player.
Grab your copy [...]

Mac Users Now Get Skype With Video

After much waiting Mac users can now get a beta version of Skype for Mac with Video. This feature was added to the new Skype 2.0 for Windows back in May, as usual Mac users have had to wait..

This video beta is running in parallel to the new Skype for Mac 1.5 which has also [...]

XP on Apple Macs

Looks like Apple has finally given its blessing for XP and OSX to live in sweet harmony on their new Intel Macs with the release of Boot Camp. The Beta download is only availabe for a short period of time and is a precursor to the full product that will be part of the [...]

Just buy a Mac!

It would seem that PC users are trying to emulate more and more characteristics of an Apple Mac as each day goes by. The latest is TopDesk – which is a Windows version of OSX’s Expose.
If people want interfaces like that – why don’t they just go and buy a Mac? You know [...]

A Tiger in my Mac

I knew that I wouldn’t be able to resist for very long.. I have now upgraded my Mac Mini from Panther to Tiger.
Not a very dramatic upgrade to be honest, OK Spotlight is neat, as are the Dashboard Widgets, but at the end of the day the relatively small enhancements to the other bits of [...]