Macworld Reviews and First Looks

Review: Gas station finders for the iPhone

Several apps take advantage of the iPhone’s ability to pinpoint your location in order to help you find nearby gas stations offering the least expensive gas. Rob Griffiths takes three of these gas finders out for a test spin.

Review: Razer ProClick Mobile Notebook MouseThe ProClick Mobile takes Razer’s excellent high-precision 1,200 dpi optical resolution technology, and packages it into a smaller wireless body. The ProClick Mobile is available in four colors.
iPod case roundup: Give your old iPod touch a new caseRoman Loyola takes a look at three cases for the original iPod touch: Core Cases' Aluminum Slider Case, OtterBox's Defender, and Speck's TechStyle Classic.

Latest Reviews and First Looks

Review: Gas station finders for the iPhone
Several apps take advantage of the iPhone’s ability to pinpoint your location in order to help you find nearby gas stations offering the least expensive gas. Rob Griffiths takes three of these gas finders out for a test spin.
Review: Razer ProClick Mobile Notebook Mouse
The ProClick Mobile takes Razer’s excellent high-precision 1,200 dpi optical resolution technology, and packages it into a smaller wireless body. The ProClick Mobile is available in four colors.
iPod case roundup: Give your old iPod touch a new case
Roman Loyola takes a look at three cases for the original iPod touch: Core Cases' Aluminum Slider Case, OtterBox's Defender, and Speck's TechStyle Classic.
Review: StoryMill 3.1
StoryMill 3.1 provides an impressive workflow approach and toolset that can’t be replicated in your current word processor.
Review: Save Benjis for iPhone
This free app provides quick, efficient comparison-shopping online, searching dozens of retail and auction sites for the best prices.
MercuryMover 2.0
If you're a keyboard-centric person, MercuryMover lets you move and resize windows without ever taking your fingers off the keys.
Review: Creative Xdock Wireless Music System for iPod
If you want to listen to your iPod's audio in multiple locations, Creative's Xdock Wireless Music System is one option, although it doesn't come cheap.
Review: SlimBlade Media Notebook Set
The Kensington SlimBlade Media Notebook Set is inarguably a stylish group of wireless input devices. Its three-piece matching keyboard, numeric keypad, and scroll-ball mouse would be sleek and attractive additions to any desk. Unfortunately, stylish does not necessarily mean well designed—and in this case, form forgot to follow function.
Review: FreeAgent Go for Mac portable hard drive
The FreeAgent Go is an external hard drive that promises fast FireWire 800 transfer speeds, spacious storage, and a stylish (if bulky) white and aluminum design meant to compliment the Mac.
Boggle games for iPhone
Two programs stand out from the crowd when it comes to iPhone games inspired by the classic word-dice game Boggle.
Review: Kroll for iPhone
Kroll is not an overwhelming challenging game. It’s more of a fun throwback to ’80s gameplay mixed with a thoroughly modern 3-D engine that really showcases how beautiful the iPhone can look as a gaming system.
Review: MediaImpression 1.2
ArcSoft MediaImpression 2.1’s do-it-all approach to media asset management is indeed impressive for such an inexpensive program. But despite a few neat tricks, Mac users will be far better served with a combination of the Mac’s built-in media browser and Apple’s iLife suite for cataloging, editing, and creating multimedia presentations.
WindowShade X Revisited
If you've been missing WindowShade X since upgrading to Mac OS X 10.5, there's good news: version 4.2 brings Leopard compatibility.
Review: Instapaper for iPhone
Instapaper Free is a very good, low-frills app for downloading online articles and reading them at your leisure. Instapaper Pro is a first-class reader with gewgaws and gizmos of enormous convenience but debatable utility. Whichever one you pick comes down to personal taste, but you’ll be happy with either version.
Review: V550 Nano Cordless Laser Mouse for Notebooks
The V550 Nano Cordless Laser Mouse is a fine notebook mouse and well worth its mildly pricey admission fee.
Review: FreeAgent Desk for Mac external hard drive
Thanks to the FireWire 800 connection speed, the FreeAgent Desk is a respectably fast external drive. Seagate has produced a fast, competitively priced, and Mac-centric external drive that should satisfy your storage needs.
Review: Sanyo Xacti HD1010
The Sanyo Xacti HD1010 is a charming little device. Its HD video comes close to the quality produced by full-sized consumer HD camcorders, and its still photos are good enough to replace a no-frills point-and-shoot digital still camera.
Profile: Automotive performance apps for the iPhone
Learn about a number of different programs that run on your iPhone 3G (or iPhone/iPod touch in some cases) to help you measure your car’s speed, acceleration, g-forces, and braking abilities.
Review: Maildash for iPhone
This macro-maker and auto-reply generator for the iPhone and iPod touch is a clever conceit, undermined by a couple of annoying bugs.
Review: Campaign for iPhone
The idea behind Campaign is that it delivers election news based on your candidate preference. It works as advertised, though not without some interface quirks.