Macworld Reviews and First Looks

iPhone cases: Incase Fitted Sleeve and Uniea U-Suit

The new iPhones may be on the horizon, but that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten about the “old” ones. We take a look at two cases, one from Incase, the other from Uniea.

Review: SOHO Organizer 7.0.2Chronos's SOHO Organizer 7.0.2 suite provides a feature-rich alternative to Apple's built-in that will appeal to business and power users
Review: iCal 3.0.3 calendar programFor the price, and for most users, there is no better calendar application and calendaring system for the Mac OS. It's a bit weak in the task-management department, but even business users may now find that iCal can manage everybody's calendars easily, effectively, and economically.

Latest Reviews and First Looks

iPhone cases: Incase Fitted Sleeve and Uniea U-Suit
The new iPhones may be on the horizon, but that doesn’t mean we’ve forgotten about the “old” ones. We take a look at two cases, one from Incase, the other from Uniea.
Review: SOHO Organizer 7.0.2
Chronos's SOHO Organizer 7.0.2 suite provides a feature-rich alternative to Apple's built-in that will appeal to business and power users
Review: iCal 3.0.3 calendar program
For the price, and for most users, there is no better calendar application and calendaring system for the Mac OS. It's a bit weak in the task-management department, but even business users may now find that iCal can manage everybody's calendars easily, effectively, and economically.
Espy 1.0
Espy is an address book that uses an iPhoto-inspired interface for sifting through your contacts.
Review: Sunbird 0.8 calendar program
If you use Mozilla's Thunderbird e-mail client, or if you need to access a calendar on a server from different computers running different operating systems, or if you need a bit more help than iCal provides for managing your tasks, Sunbird is definitely worth a look. And Sunbird is free.
Review: My Passport Studio portable hard drive
The My Passport Studio is a portable hard drive that’s bus powered—it doesn’t include a power adapter. The drive ships in a Mac-friendly format, and works with Leopard’s built-in disk back up utility, Time Machine.
Twitterrific 3.1
If you can't quite see the appeal of social networking site Twitter, maybe you should try Iconfactory's Twitterrific.
CaliBrate 1.1
This nifty utility lets you batch-modify iCal events, with available actions including moving events between calendars, deleting events, changing times, editing titles and notes, and more.
Review: Xerox Phaser 6130 color laser printer
Though the Phaser 6130 is inexpensive, there are better options in the same price range. For $50 more, you can buy Brother’s HL-4070CDW, a much faster, higher quality color laser printer that includes wireless networking and duplexing.
Changes 1.0
If you’ve got two folders that you want to have the same contents, or if you’re just trying to figure out which of two folders has the latest versions of your files Changes can help.
Warp 1.1
Warp 1.1 is a free system utility for Leopard. It adds more functionality to Spaces.
Review: Bose SoundDock Portable
The portable version of Bose's iconic iPod speaker system improves on the original but sports an even-higher price tag.
TimeMachineEditor 1.3
If you’ve ever wanted to change Time Machine’s schedule, Time Software's TimeMachineEditor lets you do just that. You can tweak the interval so that Time Machine backs up every, say, four hours, or you can choose to have Time Machine back up once a day, once a week, or once a month.
Review: Little Big Disk Quadra 500GB portable hard drive
LaCie’s Little Big Disk Quadra is a high capacity, portable storage device that can be powered off of a FireWire connection. It will cost you considerably more than a similar capacity desktop drive, but its RAID configuration helps keep the drive competitive with desktop drives in terms of performance.
MenuMeters 1.3
Curious what’s going on with your system’s CPU, disk drives, network activity, or memory usage? MenuMeters presents tons of detail in a well-designed an minimally-intrusive interface.
Review: Sierra Wireless Compass 597 USB modem
The Sierra Wireless Compass 597 is the ultimate cellular data modem combo. The device folds high-speed data access and GPS service into a tiny USB cell modem and pairs it with new Mac OS X software that takes full advantage of the new hardware.
SuperDocker 2.2.0
If you don’t like Leopard’s 3-D dock, SuperDocker offers a number of variations that you can implement with a few mouse clicks.
Review: Myvu Crystal video eyewear for iPod
Peter Cohen takes a look through Myvu's latest goggles for iPod-hosted video viewing.
Review: ArtixScan M1 Pro dual media scanner
With its support for many pro-level transparency types and two full-featured professional software packages, the ArtixScan M1 Pro is a step up, both in quality and in price, from consumer photo and document scanners.
Smultron 3.5
As a text editor, Smultron is as feature-rich as other similar programs. But Smultron's interface isn't daunting and is also customizable.