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CES: Ion Audio announces iCapture and Anyroom
At CES, Ion Audio introduced a recorder for the iPod, as well as wireless speakers for Apple's music player.
Expo: MacBowl charity event raises $14,500 for SF school
The ninth annual MacBowl charity event raised $14,500 for an at-risk San Francisco public school to use to set up a Mac-based computer lab.
FileWave software management tool updated
With FileWave 3.7, users can re-image an entire computer, allowing multiple computers to have the same software installed.
Macworld Expo show floor grab bag
In this Macworld Video, follow Macworld Lab Director James Galbraith as he makes the rounds of the show floor. He finds a few products that aren’t what you might expect from a typical trade show—but are what make Macworld Expo unique.
Expo: Feral announces Rome: Total War Gold Edition for Mac
Feral will publish a Mac version of Rome: Total War Gold Edition in March.
Expo Notes: Memeo makes an offer
Video and image-sharing service Memeo is extending its Macworld Expo offer of six months of free access to its pro version to Macworld.com readers.
CES: New Boston Acoustic speakers work with iPods, iPhone
The $500 Horizon i-DS3 Powered Speaker System with Wireless Subwoofer features a built-in 100-watt amplifier, two 3.5 inch woofers, and two half-inch tweeters that produce high-fidelity stereo sound.
Expo Notes: The needle and the (hard drive) damage done
How do you make a point about data-recovery? If you’re data-rescue specialist DriveSavers, you graphically illustrate the perils of hard-drive damage on the Macworld Expo show floor.
iPhoto ’09: What you need to know
Faces and Places features highlight the additions to the latest version of iPhoto. But they’re not the only changes you’ll find in iPhoto ’09. Jackie Dove previews the soon-to-be-released version of Apple’s photo editor and organizer.
Apimac intros file-encryption software
The $15 Protect Files creates a password-locked encrypted space for files and folders on hard drives, external disks, or a USB drive.
Opinion: The $169 Mac Box Set and Apple's motives
Perhaps lost among all the discussions about iLife ’09, iWork ’09, and the 17-inch MacBook Pro, the Mac Box Set may well be one of the best things to come out of the Macworld ’09 keynote.
Expo: XtremeMac shows off Micromemo voice recorder for 4G nanos
The XtremeMac Micromemo, which connects to the 4G iPod nano through the dock, captures voice recordings with the help of flexible and detachable omnidirectional mic.
The Macalope Weekly: Do not look back in anger
Apple's last Macworld Expo may be over as of today, but The Macalope doesn't think that it's over and out for the world's most prominent Mac gathering.
Expo Notes: Brother’s big at Expo
Brother is showing off a number of printers at Macworld Expo, but the two that James Galbraith found impressive are the MFC-990CW and MFC-6490CW multifunction devices.
Review: Avid Media Composer 3.0
Avid Media Composer 3.0.5 is a must-have if you or anyone in your facility work with the emerging HD formats popularized by card-based camera systems.
Macworld Expo and Games
A quartet of game developers stops by the Macworld PodLoft at Expo to talk about the state of gaming.
Expo Notes: Securing your Mac
Security isn't just about hackers and malware. Dan Miller takes to the Expo show floor to explore some of the products aimed at keeping your Mac safe from thieves.
See more recent folders in Open dialogs
Use a very simple Terminal command to increase the number of folders that appear in the Recent Places section of OS X’s File -> Open dialogs.
Expo Notes: Merlin project wizardy going mobile
ProjectWizards, makers of the project-management software Merlin, are planning an iPhone component.
Review: Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader for iPhone
This mobile version of the popular game show quickly grows tiresome because of tedious pacing.
HSC updates Aperture plug-in bundle with depth-of-field tool
HSC Edit 1.6 provides 16 plug-ins for more than 4,000 effects to apply to images in Aperture.
GarageBand ’09: What you need to know
Phil Schiller focused on the music instruction features that highlight GarageBand ’09 during his Macworld Expo keynote Tuesday. But there’s more to these lessons—and to the new version of GarageBand as a whole—than what he demonstrated. Christopher Breen goes over what’s different in GarageBand ’09.
Expo Notes: Get Slick
James Galbraith stops by the GeeThree booth at Macworld Expo to see the latest batch of SlickFX plugins for Final Cut.
iPod and iPhone Accessories at Expo
Headphones, cases, and other add-ons are a common sight on the Macworld Expo show floor. We talk about a few noteworthy ones at this year's event.
Canon intros high-resolution multimedia projector
The $2,499 REALis SX800 projector features 3,000 lumens and a contrast ratio of 900:1.
Expo: Blue Microphone introduces Eyeball and Mikey
Blue Microphones introduces the Eyeball and Mikey to keep your Mac and iPod recording well.
Expo: OWC rolls out quad-interface RAID offerings
OWC's new products include the dual-bay Mercury Elite-AL Pro and the four-bay Mercury Rack Pro RAID storage products.
Expo: Parrot by Starck
If you like designer speakers and have $1500 burning a hole in your pocket, Parrot has a system for you.
Microsoft releases TagReader for iPhone
Microsoft's tag technology has come to the iPhone, but we can't tell you if it works.
Expo: Carl Zeiss plans improvements to Cinemizer video eyewear
The new Cinemizer plus—slated for release later this year—gives users the ability to individually adjust the focus of the high-resolution LCD screens for clear viewing, even if the user wears glasses.