Read MacFormat's reviews of the new
iPhone 5, the iPod touch and the
iPod nano, from Issue 253 of MacFormat.
With two biopics of Steve Jobs currently in
production, we asked how the world's best
film directors would deal with the life story of
Apple's enigmatic founder. So stock up on
popcorn and pass the pic’n’mix as we try to
re-imagine Steve Jobs, the movie...
Read all about the new iPhone 5, iPod touch
and iPod nano. Also, great tutorials on
GarageBand and iMovie.
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Popular first-person shooter Borderlands 2 is coming to the Mac on 20th November. Developed by Gearbox Software and brought to the Mac by Aspyr Media, this sequel to the critically-acclaimed four-player co-operative blaster Borderlands is ‘bigger, better and more badass’.
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If you want to pack in some serious gaming action this Halloween, check out Aspyr’s Halloween promotion. To celebrate the arrival of the scary season, the electronic download versions of its 18+-rated first-person shooters – and a real-time strategy game – are half price.
KEY INFO Developer: Parallels Price: £65 REQUIREMENTS OS X 10.6.8 or later Requires Intel Core 2 Duo or later, 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended), 700MB hard disk space, 15GB per virtual machine Parallels makes it really simple to get Windows running on your Mac. Going head to head with VMWare Fusion 5 is Parallels Desktop 8. This latest version boasts speed improvements and other enhancements such as support for 32GB of RAM. As with…
KEY INFO Developer: VMWare Price: £40 REQUIREMENTS OS X 10.6.7 or later Requires Intel Core 2 Duo or later, 2GB of RAM (4GB recommended), 750MB hard disk space, 5GB per virtual machine You can run Windows applications as if they were Mac ones. Running Windows on your Mac may sound like sacrilege, but for many its just one more convenient aspect of being a Mac owner. The latest virtualisation tool from…
KEY INFO Developer: Kaspersky Labs Price: £40 REQUIREMENTS OS X 10.6 or later, Intel processor, 512MB RAM, 350MB disk space The suite offers a range of security solutions. Kaspersky has updated its security software with a new and – it claims – improved real-time protection engine. As with the previous version, this has a low processor footprint, with Activity Monitor reporting it as using less than 3% of the processor in…
Those familiar with Dragon Dictate 2.5 might wonder what more Nuance could add to its already comprehensive speech-recognition application. Although not a radical overhaul, Dragon Dictate 3 does much to expand on its predecessor’s feature set without straying into bloatware territory, and packs in significant performance improvements too.
KEY INFO Developer: Orbicule Price: From £31 REQUIREMENTS Mac OS X 10.6+, Internet connection Undercover 5 can use your FaceTime or iSight camera to photograph a thief. This new version of Undercover, Orbicule’s in-the-background app for tracking and recovering stolen Macs, is a complete revision rather than an incremental upgrade. The licence-key approach has been dropped in favour of account-based purchasing, the browser-based interface has been redesigned and the application is far…