In Case You Missed It: May 9 - May 16
We're thinking you might have missed some of the great Mac|Life articles up late this week, since you were so busy gaming your days and nights away. That's right, it was the week Steam came to Macs, and like some of us in the office (ahem) you're probably bleary eyed and sleep-deprived from shooting shooting shooting. So, if you're taking a break from gaming, why not take a gander at the week's best articles from the killers over at Mac|Life. Features:- Steam for Mac--A Beginners Guide to Getting Shot - Yes, that's right, you may have been already playing, but we've got the best set of tips on how to get yourself up to speed with your PC brethren. Game on, kids, game on.- Steam for Mac: How to Navigate Portal - In a second Steam article (can you tell what we've been doing with ourselves this week?), we'll walk you through Portal, Steam's very first game for the Mac platform. It may be brief in comparison, but there's plenty to keep you interested while you're in it.Reviews:- Ditch Safari - Install a Faster Browser on Your iPhone - We've had Opera Mini from the moment it was available, seeing as how most alternate browsers for the iPhone were built around the Safari WebKit set up. Yet within that small parameter, developers have delivered a heaping dish of awesome.- Apple iPad Wi-Fi+3G - You knew this was coming after we reviewed the Wi-Fi only iPad. Introducing the 3G. It is the sweetness, of course, though there's been reports of difficulties setting up the 3G account. Our advice in a nutshell: if you don't think you're going to be using 3G on a regular basis, use that extra $130 bucks to upgrade on memory size. How-Tos:- Final Cut Pro Screencast: Animate From the Canvas Window - Probably one of our easiest laid out tutorials ever, we walk you through the process (in full! living! color! video!) of how to animating objects directly from the canvas window in Final Cut Pro. - Store iMovie Events & Projects on an External Drive - We love making movies on iMovie (see above) but what about moving those memory hogging events and projects off our Mac's hard drive and on to an external where we can keep it? Once again, no problems when you ask the pros at Mac|Life.News:You want to see the most tricked out iPad you've laid eyes on yet? Well check out this Stuart Hughes pimped out beauty....however, what you won't be getting an eyeful of in the beauty category are a bit more risque photos from fashion magazines as publishers self-censor to keep Steve Jobs from getting all hotted up....something else you won't be seeing on iPad's any time soon? Hulu, as the company takes a pass on HTML5 for the time being...although Boxee is making all the right noises for a little mobile video lovin for iPads and (dare we dream it?) maybe even iPhones...what you will see, if you watch this video, is just how much touch the iPad can react to at one go; hmmm, ten fingers plus one something or other -- shhhhh, don't tell Steve!....in other touch goodness, one enterprising fellow got all Magic Mousey with his iPad and it's looking promising to us....and finally, this new Apple commercial for the iPad is making some of us nostalgic for ye olden days of the Newton.In our other favorite portable device news, we're getting dangerously close to WWDC which means iPhone 4 rumors are reaching fever pitch. For instance, it is said that the new handset is heading for production....and since another supposed fourth generation handset has turned up in Vietnam (good luck getting that one back) with a few differences from the Gizmodo one, we're thinking it's pretty darn close too...speaking of the Gizmodo saga, turns out the iPhone "finder" got turned in by his roommate; what a swell guy he must be to live with...back to rumors, according to some metadata analysis from the new OS, it looks like front facing cameras are headed our way in one fashion or another...also hopefully headed our way? Wi-Fi based syncing; that'd be a good reason why Apple rejected this fantastic app...what we'd most like to see for the iPhone? how about a data plan like what they do in Spain? one plan for your iPad and iPhone? how about it AT&T, huh, huh?...and since AT&T has done a little rollback of their eligibility, that seems like a sign of something on the horizon, no?...Another day, another Apple-related lawsuit, even if this is where we talk about apps now. The app in question? iBookstore apparently has too much control according to some European laws...elsewhere around the courts, it looks like AT&T and Apple both are going to patent court as a result of mobile Safari....in good app news, Apple's already made with some update lovin' to those of you who bought iWork apps...other good app news? You could be the winner of the legendary Box of Mystery in this month's Mac|Life iPad app contest by just telling us what kind of app you'd love to see...one we're definitely glad to see is Square's free app that lets us charge people's credit cards for the privilege of basking in our presence, or, you know, buying something of real value from us....another app we're glad to see showing up? Castlevania is making its way to the App Store, but what's this about puzzles?
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