Tag archive: Macworld

Here's some pretty neat news for you mobile gaming fans. XMG Studio, the developer behind last year's Inspector Gadget's MAD Dash HD, is now working with another high-profile license for a game that is expected to see an iOS release this summer: Ghostbusters. The dev revealed the game at MacWorld last week (via TUAW), confirming that it would be a location-based adventure that requires players to bust ghosts in familiar… Read More

Apple rumors are a dime a dozen, but here's the latest. DigiTimes, a site known for many true and false rumors, reports that Apple will unveil two new versions of the iPad at iWorld/Macworld on Jan. 26, 2012. The new models will both have 9.7-inch screens like the current iPad, but at least one of them will have a QXGA screen (1536×2048 pixel resolution). A previous DigiTimes rumor, pointed toward a model with a 7.85-inch screen, but… Read More

According to Microsoft's head of corporate communications Frank Shaw, the software giant plans to discontinue the relationship with the Consumer Electronics Show after the upcoming show during January 2012. In previous years, Microsoft has taken up a significant portion of space in the Central Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center. The reason behind pulling out of the event is attributed to different timing on software and hardware… Read More

Dolly Drive will be featured as part of MacWorld's Indie Spotlight. The event takes place January 27-29th. Dolly Drive works with Time Machine to locally duplicate, store online and restart access to your digital world through online storage. Dolly lets MacBook laptop users back-up and recover their data through Time Machine anywhere they travel. Mac desktop users can either skip buying an external hard drive or use both for a hybrid… Read More

Originally, this was supposed to be a “best of Macworld” article. Not much luck with that. With Apple now shunning the conference, and even many of our most anticipated products having already launched at CES, there’s just not much ink to spill over a bunch of Mac fans milling around Moscone Center and fawning over new iPod cases. Which raises the question: Is Macworld dead?

Navigon today announced a significant iPhone app update for MobileNavigator—the Version 1.5.0 update. The update adds three cool new features: in-app Connection to Facebook and Twitter, Panorama View 3D with 3D terrain views powered by NASA data, and personalized route delivery via NAVIGON MyRoutes. The app update will be featured and demonstrated at the Macworld Expo this week.

Apple may not be making an appearance at Macworld, but Steve Jobs and crew still managed to announce a new product for the trade show. Apple announced today that Aperture 3 is ready for all those creative cats out there. Aperture 3 is the next major release of Apple’s photo editing and management software—and it boast s over 200 new features including Faces, Places and Brushes.

The days of Steve Jobs himself appearing before his minions at Macworld are gone. In fact, for the first time ever, Apple will completely snub Macworld this year. But that doesn’t mean there will be nothing to lure the Mac faithful out to San Francisco for 2010. With the launch of Apple’s iPad imminent and the iPhone still stomping the competition on sales, there’s both plenty to celebrate and look forward to this year – not to mention apps,… Read More

Some Mac fans are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore. Their method of protest? Silence. After Apple announced on Tuesday that it would officially be abstaining from an appearing at the Macworld expo after this year, Mac faithful have been expressing their disappointment in the company quite vocally on the Web. And Lesa Snider King, a Mac fan who actually got married at Macworld, has taken it to another level.… Read More

Macworld Magazine has announced its 2006 Eddy Award winners for products and services deemed outstanding for their innovation, excellence, and value. Every year, Macworld reviews hundreds of products and tallies up the opinions of its editors, contributors, and other knowledgeable members of the larger Macintosh community—and this year, it invited the larger Mac-using audience to vote for two Readers' Choice awards. Polling is closed,… Read More

Apple Computer made a lot of press earlier this month by introducing Intel-powered iMacs and the new MacBook Pro notebook earlier this month at Macworld Expo, touting performance of the new iMac with the new Intel Core Duo CPU as being up to twice as fast as it PowerPC G5-based predecessor. However, in tests, Macworld Labs finds the speed gains in the Intel-based systems far less substantial, and, for software which hasn't been… Read More

The editors of the Macworld magazine and Web sites have presented the 2006 Macworld Best of Show awards to products at this year's Macworld Expo in San Francisco, citing 14 products for innovation, excellence, and generating significant buzz amongst the assembled Mac multitude.

As enthusiasts devoted to Apple prepare to descend on San Francisco next week for the annual Macworld conference, at least two online petitions have collected hundreds of signatures from potential plaintiffs seeking to file lawsuits over claims of defects in the iBook laptop. Another growing source of complaints surrounds Apple's wildly-popular iPod line of digital music players, which many enthusiasts believe will get an upgrade at… Read More