Apple’s Image Playground app has been getting not so great reviews. I’ve played with it a little and I will agree it is not
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Category: Mac OS X
Take Control of Upgrading to Mojave – Book Review
Take Control of Upgrading to Mojave Author: Joe Kissell Publisher: alt concepts inc. Version 1.0 Price: $9.99 114 pages, ebook format: PDF, EPub, Mobi
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Crucial RAM – Review
Crucial RAM Manufacturer: Crucial MSRP: $82 to $152, for my iMac, your mileage may vary. It has been said that, “One cannot be too
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Printworks 2 -Review
Printworks 2 BeLight Software $29.99 U.S. Printworks 2 is a desktop publishing app for Mac OS. It includes templates that will create brochures,
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Kinesis Freestyle2 Blue Keyboard for Mac – Review
Kinesis Freestyle2 Blue Keyboard for Mac Kinesis $89 U.S. Freestyle2 Blue For Mac The Kinesis Freestyle2 Blue for Mac reinterprets the the traditional QWERTY keyboard
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DiskMaker X 5 – Review
I find myself lamenting the passing of the Mac OS install disk. It provided me with peace of mind knowing that I could boot from that disk if something went horribly wrong on my internal drive. I researched how to make a bootable USB thumb drive to replace the optical disks of yesteryear. Finding the instructions was easy enough, but upon reading through the procedure, I found that the amount of dealing the the built in UNIX terminal exceeded my comfort level. A little more digging turned up DiskMaker X.
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Logickeyboard Adobe Photoshop CC Shortcut Keyboard for Mac – Review
Keyboard shortcuts have long been a method for experienced Adobe Photoshop users to increase productivity. The Logickeyboard Shortcut Keyboard will jumpstart the process of using the keyboard in lieu of the mouse.
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Macspiration Basics: Bring back the sidebar in Photos
Apple’s new iPhoto replacement, the Photos app, can be a little scary for some people. No more events. It looks different. Plus, what
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Macspiration Basics: Force Quit
Have you ever had a Mac App stop responding? Usually this leads to the spinning “beach ball.” If this has happened to you, there is a quick and easy way to fix it. It is called “Force Quit.”
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Macspiration Basics: Set an app to open at login
If you have ever wanted an app to open automatically when you log in to your Mac this is the article you’ve been looking for! There are two methods for accomplishing this.
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ScreenFlow 5 – Review
Recently I was given the opportunity to review ScreenFlow 5 for MyMac.com, so I jumped at the chance. I had bought a previous version of ScreenFlow in a bundle, then did nothing with it. Now I would have to take some time and learn how to use the application. I’m so glad I did.
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Tonality, Black & White Photo Editor – Review
There is a long history of monochromatic images created by humans. Chauvet Cave in France is credited with having some of the earliest, dating back 30,000 years or more. Tonality by Macphun works to bring this long standing artistic practice forward into the current century. The easy to discover and use tools available in Tonality will assist photographers and graphic artists of all skill levels to explore this age-old tradition.
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OWC Express 2.5″ Portable USB 3.0 – Review
With USB 3.0 and Thunderbolt ports available on recent computers, using an external storage device is becoming a very attractive option for a bootable drive. In this review we explore the OWC Express 2.5″ Portable USB 3.0 external enclosure as an option to install a bootable SSD to a 2012 Mac mini.
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ArtRage 4 for OS X – Review
When I purchased my first iPad several years ago, the first art painting app I installed was ArtRage. At the time it offered, and yet continues to have, the most realistic oil painting brushes of any painting app for the iPad or iPhone. As I use it so frequently on my iPad, I was eager to use the Mac OS X version on my new iMac.
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FaceFilter3 Pro for the Mac – Review
FaceFilter3 Pro is a photo retouching toolkit that allows you to enhance your portraits utilizing a multi-layer makeup system. The software package has tools for skin color tone adjustment, skin smoothing, and blemish removal. It also includes hundreds of templates for one-click make up applications.
Read MoreRecording your Mac’s voice
Apple doesn’t always make things easy. Especially when it comes to audio. However with a little bit of searching, you might find that all
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Take Control of Upgrading to Mavericks
Although Mavericks (OS 10.9) differs from previous OS upgrades in being free and more readily installed “over” existing systems, users can still benefit from adequate preparation, from planning, from a thorough understanding of Mavericks’ benefits (and possible pitfalls) and from access to a rich set of resources to make the most of it. Experienced Mac author Joe Kissell’s ebook, Take Control of Upgrading to Mavericks, provides all of that – and more.
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Voila Screen Capture Suite – Review
Does anyone remember Skitch? Developed by Plasq, it was a light, simple app that allowed you to quickly take screenshots on the Mac and then annotate them easily with text, callouts and graphics.
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Mac Kung Fu – Book Review
Mac Kung Fu is a collection of hundreds of little things that can make a big difference in the way your Mac works. I’m always surprised when someone stumbles across features that I’ve known for years but are new to them. Mac Kung Fu is full of that kind of stuff. While you may be aware of some of these tips, I doubt many besides the author will know all of these.
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Mac Hacks – Book Review
The cover of Mac Hacks features a Swiss Army knife, which is very fitting given the breadth of topics this book addresses. The hacks covered in this book range from Quick Hacks for Mountain Lion to Give Your Polycarbonate Mac a Dye Job. But whether you consider yourself a “hacker” or not, this book contains some great information that many Mac users will find useful. Topics like Create a Great Backup and Create a Bootable Flash Drive should be of interest to many Mac owners.
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