A year and 5 months after releasing iWork '08, Apple finally updated its productivity suite to version '09. Keynote 5.0, Pages 4.0, and Numbers 2.0 all sport some refinements, but this time around iWork isn't joined by a new family member. Apple touts an enhanced template chooser and more ways to share for all three ...

This may seem like somewhat of a stretch, but I'm going to go ahead with the analogy anyway: GarageBand is the multi-function printer in the third-floor office that is iLife '09. With the addition of yet another feature, the '09 iteration of Apple's music-making app has become the ugly, multi-purpose mess that is today's ...

Resident Evil 5 is the first current-generation Resident Evil title to be released—unless you count the Wii light-gun game that took players through past games, and I don't—and it labors under the pressure of following up Resident Evil 4, which was one of the most-loved games of the past ten years. Capcom seems ...

There is no way Wheelman will be good. It's impossible. The game is being developed by the bankrupt Midway, which hasn't released an exciting game since Mortal Kombat II in 1993. It's a Grand Theft Auto knock-off, which usually means you can't expect much. To make matters worse, it's based on a delayed movie by the same ...

Now that we all have our beta copies of Windows 7 to play with, Ars thought it was time to take Vista's successor for a spin on the Apple side of the street. After all, it isn't every day that recent switchers and established users get to (legitimately) try out a copy of Windows for free, so we burned a couple of ISOs and got ...

iWeb occupies a strange place among its iLife brethren. As a truly WYSIWYG, theme-based web design tool, iWeb enables the creation of gorgeous sites in record time, and it is the go-to, well-integrated app for presenting your iLife to the internet. But iWeb has suffered a fair share of criticism since its introduction in 2006 ...

Since its introduction in 2003, the iLife suite has become an integral part of the Apple's sales pitch for the Mac platform. And as the Mac has evolved, the suite's makeup has also changed with the times. iTunes has more or less been made a permanent part of Mac OS X, and so is no longer in the collection. iWeb was added in ...

Creating an RTS title and setting it in the world of Halo may seem like a cheap way to make some cash, but the Halo series has long enjoyed a deeper backstory than many realize. If you've read the enjoyable—if pulpy—novels and noticed how many recognizable units and vehicles the past Halo games have contained, ...

When it launched in early January, Phenom II's sole purpose, its raison d'être, was to rejuvenate AMD's ability to compete against Intel with something other than price cuts. Viewed in aggregate, benchmarks of the new CPUs prove that Sunnyvale succeeded; the X4 940 and 920 are tough opponents in the mainstream quad-core ...

The BBook of Geek: The Only Geek Humor Book You'll Ever Need Citadel Press 104 (hexadecimal) pages $14.95 Shop.Ars Life doesn't present many opportunities to watch the entire Star Trek canon and call it ''research,'' and when it does so, ...