The Xbox 360, in case you haven't heard, is a Microsoft product, so many of its features are designed to work with Windows right out of the box, but if you're a Mac user, you don't need to be left out in the digital cold. The 360 is a great gaming platform and can offer lots of great content for your family. This tutorial will help Mac users get the most out of their 360's with some helpful tips and tricks, no coding necessary.  read more »

Features Apple's New Breakthrough Genius Technology  read more »

Both Coke and Pepsi are running specials right now (and have been for a while) that encourage you to collect points with which you can purchase, among other things, free mp3's. But if you, like me, enjoy both Diet Coke and Pepsi One, you may be wondering, "Which is the better deal?"  read more »

Can noble intentions redeem mediocre game design?

Maybe.

Let’s start with the game. Legacy Interactive's The Tuttles Madcap Misadventures is a straight-up platformer in the Mario mold. The story revolves around a standard issue sitcom family called the Tuttles.  read more »

Just a few weeks ago, I swapped an eMac and an iBook for a MacBook as an all-in-one solution. That said, I still prefer a desktop computer, especially the full-size keyboard. When I want to move it (it's a laptop, after all--that's the point!), I have to drag around keyboards and mice or else use the smaller and less comfortable laptop keyboard, so when I heard about Logitech's diNovo Edge, Mac Edition, it seemed like just what the carpal tunnel surgeon ordered.  read more »

Feeding Frenzy is a one player game and just like popcap.com says "It's survival of the biggest". This game is 40 levels of fish chomping fun. I reviewed this game with my 7 year old son and his 10 year old (boy) cousin and they both enjoyed the game. We played the Mac version of the game on a MacBook, but it is also available on Windows and XBox 360.  read more »

Come on down, but you don't get to keep the showcase.  read more »

My kids love to draw and paint, but they also love their computers, and Wacom, known for their drawing tablets, offers tablets in a variety of sizes and feature sets. While the more expensive ones appeal more to professional graphic artists and serious hobbyists, the Bamboo series make the digital art pad available to families on a budget ($79 and $99, the cheapest Wacom tablets ever).  read more »

Remember having to choose between 24 and 36 images to a roll of film? With compact flash, SD/MMC, and other media cards used in modern digital cameras pushing upwards of 4GB, anything less than a few hundred or even thousands of images seems absolutely crippling. But with any magnetic storage device, it's not a question of if the media will fail, but when, and these cards are no exception.  read more »

When I got my first CD burner for my Macintosh Computer back in 2001, I also picked up a copy of Roxio’s Toast Titanium 5 because Mac CD recording abilities were almost nonexistent at the time. It wasn’t long after that CD burners, and then DVD super drives, became standard issue in Macs along with the software necessary to run and take full advantage of such devices.  read more »