Category Archives: Apple

The iPhone 5S Camera Is Good, But How Good?

“Every day, more photos are taken with the iPhone than any other camera.”

Apple touts the iPhone’s camera as the most popular in the world, but does that make it the best? Flickr’s camera finder page supports the claim, listing the iPhone 5, 4S and 4 as the top three most used cameras on the popular photo-sharing site. When Apple announced the iPhone 5s on September 10, it boasted the new camera as one of the best in a smartphone. The iPhone’s camera is always regarded for quality pictures, but how does it stack up against other cameras this year? read more

MobileGo for iOS by Wondershare Review

Have you ever wanted to pull a song or picture off of your iPhone or iPad? This can often be tougher than you would think since Apple doesn’t want its users freely moving music, videos, etc around. iTunes also has a few other limitations, particularly when it comes to syncing contacts and just generally backing up data/contacts/etc. This is where software like MobileGo comes in.

I recently had a chance to test out MobileGo for iOS. This is a handy little utility from Wondershare that allows you to transfer files, pictures, and music from an iPhone/iPad to your computer and vice versa. This software essentially makes it much easier to manage the files on your Apple device. According to Wondershare’s website, this software is 100% compatible with iPhone 5, 4S, iPod touch 5, iPod nano, iPod classic, iPod shuffle, iPad mini, the iPad, and more. read more

iPad Missing Manual Paperback and eBook


So, I have had the chance to play around with the iPad, and iPad mini for that matter, quite a bit lately. Generally speaking, I think the iPad is quite user friendly and generally, pretty easy to use. However, there were still a few things I wasn’t sure how do to. I decided to pick up the eBook version of iPad: The Missing Manual from Amazon to see if I could improve on my iPad knowledge.

Not to spoil my whole review, but after a combination of skimming and reading of this book, I was really impressed. The first chapter or so is a great read for beginners. I like to consider myself more of a tech expert, so I was able to skim over this a bit. I could really see this being useful for novices to the iPad or Apple in general though. read more

Running Windows 7 on a Mac

Apple computers are solid all-around computers that come with a great OS, OS X. However, let’s face it, Windows is still the most used operating system right now. Due to this, there are many cases in which it would be helpful to run Windows on your MAC computer. Let’s take a look at a few ways that you can run Windows 7, or even Windows 8, on your MAC.

Install Windows with Boot Camp

If you have OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard or later, OS X v10.7 Lion or later, or Mountain Lion v10.8 you can use a program called Boot Camp to install Windows 7 on your MAC machine. Boot Camp is software included with OS X Lion and Mountain Lion so you can run compatible versions of Microsoft Windows on an Intel-based Mac. read more

Best HDMI Extenders for Mac

An HDMI extender usually consists of a single or couple of devices that are powered with a 5V DC from an HDMI source such as a Mac or an external power source. Although transmission via HDMI cable is limited, an extender can surpass this using fiber optic technology.

This device usually has a receiver and the sender that are connected through HDMI cables to the display and source. At the same time, this device can send signals to far away distances utilizing a receiver and transmitter. There are several HDMI extenders available today for the Mac. read more