How to build your own Adobe Creative Suite with cheaper Mac app alternatives
Here are the best alternatives I’ve found that offer similar functionality to what is available in each of Adobe’s products. Read more »
Riffstation, an app to help you learn guitar parts by ear
Riffstation is a fantastic tool to help musicians learn to play new songs, but be warned that it is a complement to your ears, not a replacement Read more »
GarageBand 101: Using Magic GarageBand to create a jam-along band
While you can use programs to buy individual songs to play along with, since Macs come with GarageBand pre-installed, this is a great feature many may not know about it. Read more »
Meet the guys behind the iPhone’s best calendar app
The two men behind Fantastical are, in many ways, very different from each other: they work on opposite coasts and graduated college decades apart. But their laser focus and exacting standards are a good match when it comes to building great iOS and Mac software. Read more »
Don’t overspend on new guitar amps: get these 2 great Mac apps instead
There are two OS X modeling programs I’ve become quite enamored with: AmpliTube 3 Custom Shop and Guitar Rig 5 Pro. Both can also plug in directly to GarageBand for use in recording a variety of sounds without having to blow out your bank account. Read more »
Appy Halloween: 6 new app tricks to treat yourself to
From creating a zombified avatar to ghost-o-meters to an app to disguise your voice, there are plenty of iOS apps available this year for free or small purchase to get you into the Halloween spirit. Read more »
Tweetbot for Mac finally comes in for a landing — with $20 price tag
Tapbots explained the $20 price tag on its heavily anticipated Mac Twitter client by blaming Twitter’s “token limits,” set forth this past summer, which effectively cap how many users their Mac client can have. Read more »
What developers need to know about OS X Mountain Lion
OS X Mountain Lion looks to improve on Lion with UI refinements and some significant changes for developers. Most of those changes appear to be out in the cloud. Here’s a list of changes that Apple is rolling out, and how they will affect developers. Read more »
Mac RSS reader roundup: Reeder, NetNewsWire Lite, and Pulp
For all the talk of social media replacing RSS, I still find it to be the best way to get news efficiently. A quick look at the Mac App Store shows quite a few RSS reader options, so here’s a look at three of the best. Read more »
Sandvox 2.0 Makes Push-Button Publishing Even Easier
Karelia Software released Sandvox 2.0 Tuesday, a major upgrade to its website building software for the Mac. I had a chance to get a walkthrough of the new release from Dan Wood, president of Karelia Software, and the new capabilities are impressive. Read more »
