Video Tutorials, News and Insights for Apple Users

Want to get a taste of speech recognition for free? The new Dragon Dictation app lets you talk into your iPhone and it will translate your speech to text. It’s not perfect, but works surprisingly well, especially considering it is free. You can then edit the text on the iPhone and send an email (Read More, 2 Replies)

Sick of jumping back and forth between your music library and the iTunes store? You can view both at the same time by opening them up in new windows. Just right+click or ctrl+click on an item in the left sidebar of iTunes and you get the option to open it in a new window. So [...] (Read More, No Replies)

If you want a new 27-inch iMac for Christmas, you’re going to have to settle for next year. Shipping times for the largest-ever iMac have now slipped to two weeks or more. Many are speculating that this is due to the numerous reports of screen problems with the larger iMacs. But Apple simply states that [...] (Read More, 2 Replies)

Web developers creating pages specifically for the iPhone can ask for GPS location data on their Web pages with some simply JavaScript. See a basic example that can be used to get the latitude and longitude of the iPhone viewing the Web page. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) Hi, this is Gary with MacMost Now. [...] (Read More, 9 Replies)

A basic look at Energy Saver Preferences. These can be used to reduce the power consumption of your Mac when you are not using it. You can also schedule shut down or sleep patterns, and set how how Mac behaves while it is asleep. Video Transcript (Click to Expand) (missing) Now if I switch my [...] (Read More, 2 Replies)

Dropbox creates a folder on your drive that automatically syncs with a remote server. You can then access these files from your other Macs and iPhone, as well as share them with friends or everyone. It is a good way to keep a set of files in sync if you have more than one Mac. [...] (Read More, 7 Replies)