How can I put my iCal events and tasks on my Desktop so I can see them all the time? The dead-simple way to solve this problem is to crack open your wallet. iDeskCal does this easily. It’s $10.99 in the Mac App Store, and you can grab a free trial at hashbangind.com/ideskcal.php. You can [...]

I wanted to buy one of Apple’s beautiful wireless keyboards for my Mac, but then I realized that Apple doesn’t sell a wireless keyboard with a numeric keypad. Do you know if they’re planning on making one? Apple’s decision to only put a keypad on the wired keyboard has baffled us for years, but we [...]

The iPhone’s user interface is pretty easy to get along with — provided you can see it. Unfortunately, not everyone has the perfect vision required to see the diminutive text on their iPhone’s screen. Luckily, for those of us who have to squint ever time they want to look up a calendar entry or type [...]

In the April issue’s Ask column, you recommended “CineXPlayer for iPad ($1.99) or the universal GoodPlayer ($2.99)” for watching AVI videos without needing to convert them first. But you left out the free VLC Player application! Its capabilities appear to be equivalent, but it doesn’t require any financial commitment. That’s a good call. I use [...]

Great weather and summer vacations equal photos — lots of photos — and videos too. But nothing’s worse than flubbing a shot you really care about, so we assembled 20 expert tips that run the gamut from shooting with any camera to editing, layout, and printing once you’re back at your Mac. There’s something about [...]

First you learned to cook from old family recipes stored in memory, then from cookbooks, then while watching cooking shows. But who has a TV in their kitchen ready to go? With the rise of smartphones and tablets, the cookbook has entered the digital age and apps like Epicurious give you a thousand page cookbook [...]

War is hex. Tap a unit, and you’ll see its stats and where it can move. War has broken out on the moon — again! — and Allied victory is up to you in Military Madness: Neo-Nectaris, an iOS sequel to 1990′s venerable turn-based strategy game, Military Madness. True to its old-school roots, Nectaris delivers [...]

  It’s a holiday weekend, which means half of you are being pried off your computers and iOS devices with crowbars right now and you’re unable to feel the sweet salving goodness of the Mac|Life crew in any way, shape, or form. Which is totally a shame, because this week was rockin. Things were popping [...]

Making magic can be tricky The second we laid eyes on the Magic Trackpad, we had one thought: “Please oh please let it magnetically snap onto Apple’s Wireless Keyboard!” Alas, it was not so, which is why we lit up again when we heard about Twelve South’s MagicWand, a simple-seeming doodad that links those two [...]

Lightweight and powerfully portable Nearly everything in our lives has gone digital, but photos, receipts, and docs like newspaper clippings and electricity bills still come at us on a daily basis. Unfortunately, getting all that paper into your Mac isn’t as easy as cramming it into the disc slot, but Fujitsu’s ScanSnap S1100 is probably [...]