Reviewing the iPad mini

Philip Michaels Editor, Macworld

Philip has covered the Mac market since 1999, with a focus on the iPhone, iPad and iOS in recent years. In all that time, he has never tested a fart app.
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We’re continuing to work our way through the pile of products Apple unveiled in October. Last week, it was the MacBook Pro’s turn in the podcast spotlight. This week, we turn our attention to the iPad mini.

I’m joined by senior editor Dan Frakes, fresh off writing his epic-length iPad mini review, and senior editor Dan Moren, who’s reviewing the fourth-generation iPad. (Look for that review to appear on Macworld.com later this week.) We focus our time on the mini, with both Dans sharing their experiences using Apple’s new slimmer tablet.

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Evaluating the 13-inch MacBook Pro Retina display

Christopher Breen Senior Editor, Macworld Follow me on Google+

Chris has covered technology and media since the latter days of the Reagan Administration. In addition to his journalistic endeavors, he's a professional musician in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Much as we’d like to make this an extra-spooky episode of the Macworld Podcast, the truth is that, Halloween or not, for us this season is all about new products prepared by Apple for the upcoming holidays. Two such products have recently graced the test benches of Macworld Labs—the 13-inch retina display MacBook Pro and Apple’s latest Mac mini. Lab director Jim Galbraith and senior editor Roman Loyola join me to provide their impressions of these and other new Apple products.

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Rounding up Apple's spate of product announcements

Philip Michaels Editor, Macworld

Philip has covered the Mac market since 1999, with a focus on the iPhone, iPad and iOS in recent years. In all that time, he has never tested a fart app.
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A busy Tuesday for Apple means a busy evening for us, as we round up all the announcements to come out of Apple's press event. I'm joined by Jason Snell and Dan Moren—the heroes of Tuesday's live blog—as we recap Apple's latest hits and misses.

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Preview of Apple's "A Little More to Show" event

Christopher Breen Senior Editor, Macworld Follow me on Google+

Chris has covered technology and media since the latter days of the Reagan Administration. In addition to his journalistic endeavors, he's a professional musician in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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It seems that Apple hasn’t finished creating products appropriate for the holiday season and beyond. How else can you explain next week’s “A Little More to Show” event? With press invitations issued earlier this week how do we respond? By speculating about what Apple might have up its corporate sleeve, of course.

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iOS 6 quirks

Dan Moren Senior Editor, Macworld Follow me on Google+

Dan has been writing about all things Apple since 2006, when he first started contributing to the MacUser blog. Since then he's covered most of the company's major product releases and reviewed every major revision of iOS. In his "copious" free time, he's usually grinding away on a novel or two.
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iOS 6 has been out for about a month, which has given us time to explore not only its peaks, but valleys as well. In this episode I’m joined by Lex Friedman and contributor Glenn Fleishman to plumb the depths of the latter.

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Exploring iCloud Backup

Christopher Breen Senior Editor, Macworld Follow me on Google+

Chris has covered technology and media since the latter days of the Reagan Administration. In addition to his journalistic endeavors, he's a professional musician in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Now that we’ve settled into Mountain Lion, the iPhone 5, and iOS 6, it’s time we devoted several minutes to a feature that’s common to all of them—iCloud syncing and backup. I’m joined in that devotion by staff writer Lex Friedman who recently penned How to Free Up iCloud Storage Space, available right here on Macworld.com.

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Reviewing the iPhone 5

Philip Michaels Editor, Macworld

Philip has covered the Mac market since 1999, with a focus on the iPhone, iPad and iOS in recent years. In all that time, he has never tested a fart app.
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Our whirlwind tour of Apple’s September iOS announcements concludes with our review of the iPhone 5. Editorial direct Jason Snell has spent a week with Apple’s latest smartphone and joins the Macworld Podcast to render his verdict on the new device.

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