Coming Attractions: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - more details
They’re back. Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer), Gloria the Hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith), King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), and the rest of the shipwrecked Central Park crew reprise their rol...

Lighten that lead foot with a green app - more details
As Joe Hutsko (greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com) reports, a new application on the App Store — greenMeter — can help you lower your “car‘s impact on the environment” by tapping “into the iPhone’s built-in accelerometer to gauge the car’s rate...

App Store Pick of the Week: iDialUDrive - more details
Wouldn’t it be great, if during your long commute to or from the office, you could have iPhone automatically dial a list of numbers—hands free—while you concentrate on driving? That’s the premise of iDialUDrive. Using the low-cost ($0.99) appli...

Mac OS X Pro Tip: Find files faster with keywords - more details
When you add photos to your iPhoto or Aperture libraries, you probably take a few minutes to assign keywords that will help you find those images faster the next time you need them. Did you know that you can also assign keywords to your presentations, ...

Quick Tip of the Week: Shortcuts Explained - more details
Pull down a menu on your Mac, and you’ll see many of the keyboard shortcuts you can use. Some involve just two keys and are easy to understand. To copy selected text, you hold down the Command key and press the “c” key. Other keyboard shortcuts i...

Google Earth comes to the iPhone - more details
“Google Earth on the iPhone is a clear winner,” exclaims Frederic Lardinois (nytimes.com). Now available on the App Store, Google Earth “is a gorgeous application and thanks to the multi-touch interface, it’s extremely easy to use.” “Just l...

No on Prop 8 - more details
Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to offer equal rights and benefits to our employees’ same-sex partners, and we strongly believe that a ...

Coming Attractions: Changeling - more details
Opening in select theaters today and more widely next Friday, Changeling boasts a stellar cast—led by Academy Award winning actors Angelina Jolie and John Malkovich—and an Academy Award winning director. Clint Eastwood. In the film, Christine Colli...

New MacBook “another winner” - more details
Apple, says Edward C. Baig (usatoday.com), “has fashioned a winner with the new MacBook.” The new model features a “bold new metal design with a glossy backlit widescreen LED display, spacious buttonless trackpad and souped-up Nvidia graphics for...

Bento 2 offers “significant improvements” - more details
Giving it a 4.5-mouse rating (out of 5), William Porter (macworld.com) calls the recently released Bento 2 “a very slick, very easy-to-use database management system.” A “more mature product,” Bento 2 “boasts a number of significant improveme...