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Apple Remakes Final Cut Pro X February 01, 2012 
Apple announced an update Tuesday of its video editing software Final Cut Pro X aimed at quelling dissatisfaction with the product among professional media producers. This latest version of the software, release 10.0.3, is available from the Apple's App Store as a free upgrade for existing Final Cut Pro X users and for $299 for new users. A 30-day free trial version is also available.
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Yoink: Efficient Swatch Snatcher Makes Full-Screen Feel Less Bloated January 31, 2012 
Of all the changes brought about with OS X Lion, full-screen viewing was one that failed to make much of an impression on me, at least at first. Ballooning a window to the edges of the screen and blowing out the menu bar seemed a little restrictive at first. Full-screening an app the way OS X does it just felt uncomfortable and weird.
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iOS and OS X: Time for Some Real Convergence January 26, 2012 
Lately I've found myself more frequently irritated and dissatisfied with my Mac than ever before. This is a weird feeling, made all the more powerful by the fact that Mac OS X Lion is the most useful operating system ever. With a simple two-fingered swipe on my Magic Mouse, I can flick my entire screen to a whole new desktop view, and with a swipe in the other direction, go back.
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New Apple Offerings Could Retool Education January 20, 2012 
Apple's release of some new tools for the education market has the potential to transform both the teaching and learning experiences in the nation's schools, according to William Rankin, an academic at the forefront of bringing technology to the college campus.
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Forget a Million Filters - Picturesque Focuses on Just a Few Awesome Effects December 05, 2011 
A while ago I ran into a little photo effects app that helped me make drop shadows and those cool reflection photos that Apple popularized -- you know, the ones that make the iPhone look as if it is sitting on a shiny white tabletop, with a faint reflection below it. To make that reflection happen with a more robust photo-editing tool took many steps.
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Office on iPad and Mac: Late's Just Barely Better Than Never December 01, 2011 
There's a new rumor circulating this week: Microsoft is working on a version of its Office business suite for the iPad, along with a Mac OS X Lion version, according to The Daily, citing unnamed sources. The Lion version will be available via the Mac App Store. About freaking time!
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Color Splash Is a One-Trick Pony, but It's a Beautiful Trick October 03, 2011 
One of the things I like most about the Apple App Store for iOS -- and now, the Apple Mac App Store -- is that you can find and buy highly focused apps that just do one cool thing. Instead of shelling out for a powerful application with features you won't ever need, much less truly understand, you can buy a simple app, for example, that turns your snapshots into black and white marvels with a spritz of color.
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Mactracker Faithfully Pins Down Apple Product Specs September 19, 2011 
If you've ever wanted to track down the specifications of a particular Apple product, you can eventually find them through the company's online support pages. However, there's a better way than drilling down through Apple's site or searching until you find the right document that refers to the Mac in front of you: Mactracker, a free app for Mac OS X available through the Mac App Store.
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Editors Play New Reel in Final Cut Fiasco June 30, 2011 
Apple has attempted to dial down the flack it's received since the release of its latest movie-editing application, Final Cut Pro X, by publishing an FAQ that addresses some of the editing world's edgier criticisms. Meanwhile, professional film editors angered by Apple's recently released Final Cut Pro X video editing software are flocking to sign a petition.
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Apple Amps Up Productivity With Final Cut Pro X June 21, 2011 
Video editing pros, get out your wallets. Apple released a new version of Final Cut Pro on Tuesday. Final Cut Pro X reinvents video editing, according to Apple. Magnetic Timeline allows users to edit on a flexible trackless canvas. Content Auto-Analysis categorizes content during import based on shot type, media and people. The background rendering feature allows the user to work without interruption.
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Heavy-Duty Hard Drive Weeding Machine Drives a Hard Bargain May 09, 2011 
Hard disk drives have a tendency to fill up with all sorts of useless files. I try to keep up on the small stuff by using the trash often and frequently, but there's always some large files lurking deep within the bowels of your Mac. And inevitably, I look at the bottom of a folder and realize I've got just 10 GB left of my 320 GB hard drive.
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Lion Scopes Out Territory in Apple Ecosystem February 25, 2011 
Apple may be hoping that Mac operating system release number eight becomes the eighth wonder of the technological world. The company released a developers preview of the OS, code-named "Lion," on Thursday. However, Lion is primarily a "user interface evolution rather than a back-end functionality upgrade," according to Appitalism founder and CEO Simon Buckingham.
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Mac App Store: The Good, the Bad and the Ambiguous January 11, 2011 
In between gobbling up the tech gadget news coming out of the Consumer Electronics Show last week, I dutifully cleaned a bunch of useless data off of my MacBook, gave it a new pristine Carbon Copy Cloaner backup, then updated all my Apple software applications, including the all-important 10.6.6 update to Mac OS X -- if you don't have 10.6.6, you can't get the new Mac App Store.
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Pirates Make Off With Mac App Store Booty January 07, 2011 
Within hours of Apple's unveiling of the Mac App Store on Thursday, hackers announced they had found a way to pirate apps on the site. The hack took advantage of the fact that some apps don't validate receipts properly. The first app hacked was the "Angry Birds" game. Someone later claimed in a tweet to have hacked the game "The Incident."
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Dragon Dictate for Mac Is an Expert Listener December 29, 2010 
For many years, the speech recognition world for PCs and Macs was split between Dragon Naturally Speaking for Windows and MacSpeech for OS X. That changed earlier this year when Nuance, the maker of Dragon, bought its Mac rival. Both companies continued to produce their programs that allow spoken words to be turned into computer text until recently, when the combo released Dragon Dictate for the Mac.
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5 Ways the App Store Will Rock the Mac Platform December 21, 2010
Frankly, I'm surprised at how excited I am to see the Mac App Store coming Jan. 6. For me, first and foremost, it's about easy application discovery and instant buying from a trusted source. Sure, you can download many Mac apps from a variety of developer websites, but then you're also sharing a lot of key details about your identity, home and billing information.
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