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The MacBook Air Is So Thin The Sun Can Shine Right Through it [Image]
No one would ever argue that the MacBook Air is a fatty. At just 0.68 inches at its thickest point, the MacBook Air is thinner all-around than most axe blades, which will surely come in handy in a...
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OS X Mountain Lion Vs. Real-Life Mountain Lion: Fight! [Humor]
Which would win in a fight? OS X Mountain Lion or a real Mountain Lion? Over at DealMac, Jeff Somogyi put together this absolutely hysterical chart, delving into the question. The cheeky result? If...
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Take Panoramic Photos On Your iOS Device With 360 Panorama [iOS Tip]
One of the easiest and most effective ways of taking panoramic photos on your iOS device is with 360 Panorama. Unlike other apps that have you moving your device an inch at a time and snapping a...
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Rejected: The Mountain Lions Apple Left Behind [Humor]
With all the news about OS X Mountain Lion, one can only wonder which felines didn’t make the cut for Apple’s next-gen operating system. Luckily, iPhoneSavior managed to get its hands on exclusively...
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Acorn Is A Fine Image Editor For Everyone [50 Mac Essentials #46]
Acorn describes itself as “an image editor for humans”, and that sums it up in a nutshell. What you get inside Acorn are pretty much all the image editing features you’re ever going to need, for a...
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Use Bump To Instantly Share Contacts & Photos With Your Friends [iOS Tip]
Are you still emailing contact cards and photos to your friends? Did you know that you can transfer them instantly with a fist bump using the free Bump app? The best thing about Bump is it’s not just...
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President Obama In The Oval Office Getting Briefed On An iPad 2 [Image]
According to this official White House picture, “President Barack Obama receives the Presidential Daily Briefing from Robert Cardillo, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Intelligence...
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Picture This! The Phenom Photo Album Bundle [Deals]
Don’t have fun and beautiful pictures on your company’s website? Tired of the dull album your using for your blog? Don’t even have a website? The latest Cult of Mac Deals offer has got you covered....
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Forget Swipe To Unlock! Fold To Unlock Concept Brings A Smart Cover To Your...
Like a virtual Smart Cover for your iPhone. There’s nothing that really needs changing about Apple’s patented “Slide to Unlock” functionality, but ever since Apple introduced the Smart Cover for the...
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Even Stanley Kubrick Would Love This Epic ’2001′ iPhone Dock Made Out Of LEGO
The only thing missing from this iPhone docking recreation of 2001's Dawn of Man segment is some Strauss. At the beginning of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s cosmic exploration on the...
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Rotate Groups Of Images All At Once With Preview [OS X Tips]
Let’s face it, rotating a bunch of images can be a time or a money sink. You either have to open each image one at a time, rotate them manually, and then seave them, one at a time, or you need to...
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One Manufacturer Is So Convinced By Leaked iPhone Images That He’s Already...
One manufacturer is convinced your next iPhone will look like this. I’ve lost count of how many “iPhone 5″ images we’ve seen in the last few weeks, but until Apple unveils the device itself, it’s hard...
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These High-Res NASA Images Make Great Wallpapers For Your Retina MacBook Pro...
Space never looked so good. The downside to buying a new Mac with a 2880 x 1800 display is that it’s not easy to find content that matches such a high resolution. All of your old Charlize Theron...
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Facebook Messenger Gets In-App Notifications, Image Sharing Enhancements & More
You can now see who’s online when beginning a new message in Facebook Messenger. Facebook has updated its standalone Facebook Messenger app for the iPhone this morning to deliver a nice selection of...
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80% Off Wallpaper Wizard For Mac OS X For Two Dollar Tuesday [Deals]
Wallpaper Wizard features over 100,000 high-resolution wallpapers for your Mac. Struggling to find beautiful wallpapers for your new MacBook Pro’s high-resolution Retina display? With Wallpaper Wizard...
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Google Partners With NASA To Bring A Virtual Tour Of The Kennedy Space Center...
In celebration of the Kennedy Space Center’s 50th birthday, Google Maps has teamed up with NASA to give curious children, enthusiasts, and space lovers alike, a virtual trip down the launch pad of...
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Apple’s Using A Lot Of Excess Cardboard To Ship Their Lighting To 30 Pin Adapter
That’s a lot of cardboard. The new Lighting To Thirty Pin Adapter is a tiny thing, just a little dongle that routes signals from your old iPhone dock or connector to the appropriate pins in the new...
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What If The Hobbit Used iOS 6 Maps? [Humor]
As everyone who has ever read J.R.R. Tolkein’s classic fantasy novel, The Hobbit, knows, Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf, Thorin Oakshield and a company of twelve other dwarves make their way from Bag’s End to...
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Napkin Is An Essential Mac App For Editing And Annotating Images [Review]
Skitch used to be my go-to Mac app for annotating images. Now I just use OS X’s Preview to get basic editing done in a pinch. As a blogger, I frequently deal with screenshots and images for posts....
View ArticleIs CamFind Four Times More Accurate Than Google Goggles? [Kickstarter]
That’s what CamFind‘s developers are claiming — that the app is at least four times more accurate than Google Goggles at recognizing and then searching for the subject of a photo you’ve taken with...
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This Radical Skateboard Was Made From An Old Mac Pro [Image]
Apparently, the aluminum from this skateboard was repurposed from an old Mac Pro (or Power Mac G5?). Since Apple’s pretty much abandoned updating their Pro desktop, that’s one way to make sure all...
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How To Set Up An Airport Extreme Base Station (Like A Total Doofus) [Humor]
What’s wrong with this setup? (Hint: track the blue cable from end to end.) Our fearless commander-in-chief Leander Kahney is a strange cuckoo. He is, of course, a dashing and famous technology...
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Move The Screenshot Selection Area From Its Original Position [OS X Tips]
One of the big things I do here in OS X tips is take screenshots. A quick Command-Shift-3 will get me a picture of my entire screen, while a Command-Shift-4 will get me a crosshair which I can use to...
View ArticleCooliris Gets Even Cooler, Adds Support for Dropbox [Daily Freebie]
Imagine dining at a sumptuous, football-field-sized smorgasbord where all your friends and acquaintances have made and brought tantalizing morsels for you. And it’s all yours to sample, as you glide...
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These Leaked Parts Suggest That The iPhone 5S Could Come In Gold & Gray
Supposedly, these nanoSIM trays are for the iPhone 5S. They look exactly like nanoSIM trays for the iPhone 5, except for one thing: they are in gold and gray. This is notable because in the iPhone 5...
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Tim Cook Brutally Sums Up The Reality Of The Android Experience [WWDC 2013]
“If you do the math, iOS is the world’s most popular operating system, and number 2 is an Android operating system that was released back in 2010,” says Tim Cook.The post Tim Cook Brutally Sums Up The...
View ArticlePixa Update Adds Full-Page Web Snapper And Way Better Search
Pixa is our favorite alternative to iPhoto for the Mac, and it just got a solid v1.1 update. In addition to lots of polish (some of which you will have already seen in the recent 1.0.x updates), Pixa...
View ArticleWe Heart It Is The Anti-Bullying Social Network For Teens, Young Adults
With teens and young adults leaving Facebook in droves, it’s up to social networks like We Heart It to pick up the slack. The new image-centric app is gaining a ton of traction with this highly-coveted...
View ArticleHow To Add Images And Video To Keychain Secure Notes
One of the lesser known functions of the Keychain on OS X is its ability to add Secure Notes, notes that require you to enter your Keychain login password to view them. There are a ton of third-party...
View ArticleThese ideas for Apple Watch faces are totally ‘mathematical’
Apple Watch comes with a limited number of functional, classy watch faces for you use, but it totally lacks wacky, personalized watch faces for you to gloat over. Now a new collection of images shows...
View Article50 Mac Essentials #28: Picasa
If iPhoto leaves you cold, or perhaps doesn’t run so well on your older Mac, there aren’t many options for a similar application that combines photo editing and photo library management. Not many,...
View Article100 Tips #48: How To Zoom In On Images In QuickLook
Back in Tip #27, we showed you how to use QuickLook, an extremely handy way of previewing all sorts of different files on your Mac. QuickLook is particularly handy for checking out image files,...
View ArticleImages Surface of iPod Touch with Capacitive Home Button, 128GB Storage
Images have surfaced of an iPod touch equipped with a capacitive home screen button and 128GB of storage space. The device is marked with a “DVT-1” badge previously found on an iPod touch discovered...
View ArticleHow To Crop Any Image To A Perfect Square Using Preview [100 Tips #54]
Hopefully you already know how great Preview is. It comes built in with every Mac, it handles PDFs and images with ease, and does a great deal of basic image editing just fine, saving you the bother of...
View ArticleSorry, TechCrunch! Your So-Called iPhone 4 “Lite” Is Just A Cheap Chinese...
Photos published by TechCrunch this morning reportedly claim to be of the upcoming “iPhone Lite,” with panels made from plastic rather than glass, and a “metal banding around the edge.” However, I’m...
View ArticleMake The Most Out Of Preview In OS X Lion [Video How-To]
The new version of Preview in OS X Lion has a handful of interesting new features. From adding signatures to improved searching, the application is overall more useful and handy when it comes to...
View ArticleGoogle’s Photovine Photo Sharing App Now Open To All
We covered Google’s new Photovine photo sharing app when it first hit the App Store back in July, but it was initially available only to a select few users who were lucky enough to get an invite. But...
View ArticleCheck Out The Radical Tattoo This Young Apple Fan Got In Tribute To Her Uncle...
We’ve got an affinity for great Apple tattoos here at Cult of Mac, but let’s face facts: most of them are pretty bad. But the Apple-themed tattoo we’ve fallen in love with today is a lot better than...
View ArticleBookmark Images And PDFs For Fast Access [OS X Tips]
Here’s a neat trick that can be used if you need to view the same images or PDFs repeatedly, or if you want to simply record your position within a long PDF document. Here’s another tip from Mac Kung...
View ArticleDirectly Upload Images You Take On Your iOS Devices To Dropbox With QuickShot...
If you’re a Dropbox user, uploading images to your Dropbox account directly from your iOS devices can be incredibly handy. And with QuickShot ($1.99), it couldn’t easier. Simply link the app to your...
View ArticleHP’s Not Even Pretending Not To Be Shamelessly Copying Apple Anymore [Image]
Meet the HP Envy 15, a laptop that Engadget says “unapologetically copies the MacBook Pro” but “stumbles in several critical areas” including being heavier than the MacBook Pro and having a worse...
View ArticleAutodesk’s Pixlr-o-matic App Has Some of The Most Amazing Photo Effects We’ve...
Autodesk makes industry-leading software for animators, architects and industrial designers, so maybe the fact their Pixlr-o-matic app is a stunning, gasp-worthy photo-effects tool for the iPhone (and...
View ArticleCameraBag 2 for Mac Arrives At the Mac App Store with Launch Sale
We’ve waited patiently for this little gold nugget of a photo processing app to land at the Mac App Store, ever since developer Nevercenter teased us with CamerBag 2‘s beta a few months back. Wait’s...
View ArticleWhat Phones Looked Like Before And After The iPhone Transformed The Industry...
Ask a lot of people who don’t use iPhones like to dismiss Apple’s impact on the smartphone industry. Hey, we had PDA-like smartphones with touchscreens before the iPhone, so what’s the big deal? Such...
View ArticleSide By Side: Samsung’s 5.3-Inch Galaxy Note Megaphone & The iPhone 4S [Humor]
Over at The Loop, Jim Dalrymple posted a picture of what Samsung’s new 5.3-inch smartphone, the Galaxy Note, looks like next to the iPhone 4S. While we were over there, guffawing with the rest of you,...
View ArticleCheck Out This Bizarre Chinese Cyborg Made Out Of Vintage Macs! [Image]
Who is this muttonchopped Steve Jobs and crime-fighting cyborg partner, The Amazing Mac Man? More importantly, where can I get one of those Apple-branded codpieces?!? [via MIC Gadget](via Cult of Mac -...
View ArticleHow to use Siri to search, drag and drop images on macOS Sierra
The Mac debut of Siri on macOS Sierra opens up a ton of intriguing new use-cases in terms of functionality. One of the most useful? The ability to use Apple’s virtual assistant to search for photos...
View ArticleGoogle Photos for iOS now streams to Apple TV over AirPlay
Google Photos for iOS can now stream images and videos to Apple TV over AirPlay. It’s just another reason why you should be using the app to backup all your precious memories. Apple makes it...
View ArticleHow to search Google Images like a boss
Google’s Advanced image search is very powerful, letting you find just the image you want. But did you know that there’s more than one way to use it? (via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an...
View ArticleHow to resize a JPG on your iPhone
This shortcut will quickly resize your photos to shareable JPGs. It's fast, easy, and otherwise impossible to do without an extra app. (via Cult of Mac - Tech and culture through an Apple lens)
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