News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
News, Reviews and more from Australia's Macintosh Authority
Sporting a dramatically different look and feel from previous Apple keyboards, the new line featured an impressively thin design with MacBook-style keys, making the two keyboards unlike any other Apple had made—and unlike any other on the market, for that matter. Although Apple ships both the current iMac and current Mac Pro with the new Apple Keyboard, you can buy either on its own for use with your older Mac.
Dan Frakes | Oct 20, 2008
The debut version of FileMaker’s Bento offered users an interesting product, but reviewers and users complained about the program’s limitations. With this update, Bento is more than just interesting—it might actually be useful.
William Porter | Oct 17, 2008
With the Eos Wireless iPod Speaker System, you can wirelessly transmit audio from your iPod to a remote speaker. It’s a system that uses proprietary 2.4GHz wireless spectrum technology to distribute music throughout your house. The Eos is available in black or white as a $449 Core System with a base station and one speaker; additional speakers are $199 each.
Roman Loyola | Oct 16, 2008
The new MacBook and MacBook Pro are here. No, not just “here” in the sense of “publicly acknowledged by Apple and being shipped to arrive in Apple Stores today.” Here in the sense of, in my office right now. So in advance of our full reviews and lab tests of these products, let me give you a quick tour of the products.
Jason Snell | Oct 16, 2008
Traditionally, still point-and-shoot cameras, not video cameras, were pocket sized. But Sony are out to debunk that theory if the new Sony HDR-TG1 is anything to go by.
Danny Gorog | Oct 15, 2008
Newsstand is a sophisticated RSS reader with a neat gimmick. Viewed in landscape mode, the app lets you skim the headlines from a rack of newspapers and magazines. All that’s missing is the smell ink, newsprint and stale cigars.
Ben Boychuk | Oct 13, 2008
How do you say something simple in 23 languages? Read the manual for Verbatim's 120GB FireWire/USB 2.0 Portable Hard Drive, which is an idiot-proof way to add a fair whack of backup or portable storage to your system -- and maybe learn some Estonian along the way.
David Braue | Oct 10, 2008
Canon’s Pixma MP480 is an inexpensive multifunction ink-jet printer with an integrated flatbed scanner and copier. This basic all-in-one unit doesn’t have all of the fancy features found on some of the MFPs we've tested recently, like integrated fax capabilities, an automatic document feeder, or wireless connectivity; but the MP480 proved to be a very capable device in all of its functions.
James Galbraith | Oct 10, 2008
Imagine if there were a half-dozen high-quality, Photoshop-calibre image-editing applications out there, constantly pushing each other to improve. As a result of this kind of competition, technical-computation systems have innovated at a dizzying pace. The latest development comes from Maple, now at version 12.
Flip Phillips | Oct 9, 2008
HP's iPaq 912c promises plenty but doesn't quite hit the spot.
Anthony Caruana | Oct 8, 2008
Although Apple computers are not somehow magically immune to viruses and other malware, they’ve been remarkably free of such pests for most of their history. But does that mean you can ignore antivirus software?
Scott McNulty | Oct 8, 2008
“Big” doesn’t quite cut it when it comes to describing the size and scope of Adobe’s Creative Suite 4 updates. With CS4, Adobe is updating its entire roster of high-end applications for print, Web, and video pros—13 apps in all, not to mention 14 integrated technologies and seven services. It’s a massive undertaking on Adobe’s part—and chronicling all these changes is almost as demanding.
Macworld Staff | Oct 7, 2008
Myvu has announced that its Crystal video goggles now work with the iPhone. The Crystal glasses require a new cable which costs $US24.95.
