Star Wars: The Force Unleashed coming to Mac
Last fall console gamers were treated to a rather sublime Star Wars experience with the release of The Force Unleashed. Telling the story of Darth Vader’s secret apprentice, Force Unleashed once again proved that the expanded universe could weave tales leaps and bounds better than anything Lucas had ever crafted. It had also proved once again that Mac gamers are always left out in the cold. That is, until now.
LucasArts and Aspyr Media have just announced The Force Unleashed: Ultimate Sith Edition for for both Mac and PC. So what makes this release so “ultimate”? Journey with us to the dark side and find out.
Apple Rejects Google Voice App for iPhone
Google’s new invite-only Google Voice service, adapted from the older, standalone Grand Central, has been slowly growing in popularity as more and more invitations have been sent out to potential users. However, one possible roadblock in the success of the web application was announced this week when Apple refused to accept the official Google Voice application for the iPhone.
Opinion: New Final Cut Studio Not Worth Upgrade
Apple as a company is generally pretty good at making great products, and marketing new features as compelling selling points, but the new Final Cut Studio lacks the usual incentive. Let’s take a look at the new features in Apple’s high-end video production software suite.
Final Cut Studio has been around for a number of years, gaining traction on it’s Avid counter-parts. Being used by large-production companies for feature films, or short goofy clips by high school and college students, Final Cut serves a broad audience with its suite of editing, creation, and manipulating tools.
MacApper Podcast Listener Survey
Now that we’ve been back for a few weeks, we would love to hear your feedback on the MacApper Podcast. If you are a listner of the show, we would appreciate it if you could take five minutes and fill out our listener survey. Thank you in advance and we hope to continue to improve and meet our listener’s interests.
1Password Review: A One-Stop Shop for Online Security
New social networking sites, online banking utilities, even new ways to communicate, are appearing nearly every day. Most of these require accounts made, and of course with new accounts come new passwords. Usually the sites have different requirements for how many characters, what kind of letters, and so on, so one ends up with many different passwords. How is one to keep track of all of these? Enter 1Password.
Movie Genie Review: IMDB gets portable
When we reviewed Movie Brain back in January, we praised its effort to create an IMDB-in-your-pocket experience but were more than a little disappointed with the results. Now, months later, Movie Genie has stepped up to the challenge of becoming the de facto mobile movie database that Movie Brain could not. Does Movie Genie deserve a starring role in the AppStore? Or is this just another b-level horror show gone wrong?
Ecoute Review: iTunes Simplified
Most people who have an iPhone or iPod sync it in iTunes. But what if you don’t want to use iTunes to listen to your music while you are using your computer? Ecoute, is the perfect application for this. Ecoute is a small app to browse and play music and videos in your iTunes library. You can browse artists, playlists, and much more and you can even play TV shows and movies.
MacApper Podcast Episode 11: Pardon our Dust
The MacApper Podcast Episode 11: Pardon our Dust.
This week we discuss the Palm Pre-iTunes sync issue, Apple Tablet rumors, and our software picks of the week.
How-To: Sync your Palm Pre with your iTunes Library
In our recent MacApper Podcast we discussed the iTunes 8.2.1 update that eliminated the Palm Pre’s ability to sync with iTunes. One of the Pre’s major selling points was it’s ability to masquerade as an iPod and sync natively with iTunes. If you’re a Pre user feeling left in the dust, or looking to buy the Pre, this is a simple way to get that sync back between your iTunes library and your Pre.
MacApper Podcast Episode 10: Keep Your Palm off my Apple
The MacApper Podcast Episode 10: Keep Your Palm off my Apple.
This week we discuss Apple’s disabling of the Palm Pre from syncing with iTunes, SweetFM going open source, Yale on iTunes, as well as our app picks of the week.
