Teen Mac user site and community Macteens has relaunched, featuring a newly-redesigned site and rebuilt staff. In recent months, new article posting on Macteens had become somewhat slow, as existing staff members either grew out of their teen years or moved on to other projects. In mid-August, editor-in-chief Dan Hollister announced the new staff and the relaunch, stating, “Macteens has been in need of some major changes for some time now. I am pleased to announce that we are implementing every last one of them.”

“Our team worked really hard and I’m proud of what we accomplished, and I’m excited for what we’ve got going on right now,” Macteens staffer Anthony Cole told Deep Thought. “We worked together and pushed ourselves beyond our limits to get this all put together, and had a blast putting it together for you guys. Enjoy it.”

Although the site’s content is written entirely by teenagers, Macteens has a history of producing high-quality, well-written articles.

Good luck, Macteens!

Yesterday I finally received my MacBook. There was much joy and celebration as I told the other guys here at DT about it. I also was pretty excited about it; I mean, I have written for DT almost a year now, and not until now have I had any say on Apple subjects. All of that is beside my main point, which has nothing to do with me being happy about my MacBook. The point I am aiming for is how I ended up in a video chat with my friend Aaron, who has owned his MacBook for as long as I can remember. He started sending me programs that he had dug up from the immense amount of open source/freeware floating around for OS X. There are a couple that I feel obligated to give the spotlight to.

smcFanControl

This little beauty of a program has saved the top of my legs from receiving the burns from a MacBook running at 80℃. Basically what smcFanControl does is it takes over fan speed control and does an excellent job of it. The newest version allows for multiple fan speed profiles. You can assign each profile to a power state, i.e. battery profile is 1800 RPM, and you assign it to be activated while the MacBook is running on battery power. This program really shines when you’re charging your MacBook; everyone knows that charging causes the temperature to shoot through the roof. It also is quite useful during long video rendering sessions.…
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This is the first in a series of articles reviewing iLife ‘08, the latest version of Apple’s multimedia suite. This series will have five parts: iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand, and iWeb. iTunes, however, will not be discussed in this review since it did not receive an update and it is ubiquitous. The score you see in this page is for iPhoto only, not for the iLife suite as a whole.

Those of you looking for part 2 of my iWork Review (Keynote) should get it this weekend. The Numbers review should follow around the middle of next week.

iPhoto 7’s source list.

On the surface, it would seem that iPhoto hasn’t changed much between iLife ‘06 (iPhoto 6) and iLife ‘08 (iPhoto 7). After all, the basic user interface is largely unchanged, and it still works like iPhoto has in the past. However, iPhoto 7 includes a good number of enhancements to make this an update that should please most iPhoto enthusiasts.

iPhoto’s overall user interface model remains unchanged, but it has received a number of minor tweaks and updates. Let’s start simple, shall we?

Finding the photos you want more easily seems to be the central idea behind many of the changes and additions in iPhoto 7. Most of the updates aren’t focused on new projects, but instead on new organization tools. First of all, there’s the sidebar that received an iTunes 7-like makeover. There now exists several categories for all your stuff: Library, Recent (which include the most recent…
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Alongside the new iMac, Apple announced new versions of both iLife and iWork. You know what that means, right? You guessed it—it’s massive multipart review season again!

This is the first of a three-part review of iWork ‘08, the latest and most complete version of Apple’s venerable productivity suite. This first part will cover Pages 3.0; the next two parts will cover Keynote 4.0 and Numbers 1.0 in that order. This review will focus mainly on new features to Pages. Please note that the score on this page reflects the score for this application only and not the suite as a whole. Now that I got this out of the way, let’s get started!

Oh, and if you’re reading this article while on a dialup connection (or for that matter, AT&T’s EDGE network), my sincerest apologies in advance for all the screenshots.

Before Pages first debuted in January 2005, I longed for a well-designed, feature-rich word processor that could take advantage of Mac OS X to its fullest possible extent (e.g. OS X’s excellent handling of fonts and text, something that took full advantage of the operating system’s graphics capabilities, etc). Microsoft Word is a solid piece of software, but I still found it to be, well, lacking in certain areas. I went so far as to ask The Omni Group to make a word processor, considering the high quality of their other applications.

Needless to say, when Pages 1.0 hit the street, I was a very happy camper. For most…
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Can you say why you all are not participating in the “Intel Inside” program of putting the stickers on your new or previous Macs?

--Bob Keefe, as recorded by Macworld

Okay, let’s admit it, that wasn’t exactly the best question to ask at the time. I mean, Steve Jobs is in your midst; I’m sure there are better questions to ask--or at least better ways to frame it. Then again, somehow I don’t think I would have been able to think of a better question. Actually, I take it back: I would ask Jobs why Apple has yet to enter the fast-growing ultraportable laptop market segment, especially considering the excellent industrial design that Apple has shown in the past (and yet they can’t get a laptop under five pounds?). It’s not an amazingly tough question; it may not land me a job on 60 Minutes, but it sure is one question that I would sure like an answer to, and I am sure I am not alone. But I digress.

So here’s the question I would like to pose to you, our readers:

If you had the opportunity to ask Steve Jobs one question--any question--what would it be? Would you ask about something in his personal life? About Apple’s product mix? Apple’s inner workings?

You have one question. No follow-up questions allowed. If you have one, post it in the comments. Let’s see what the Mac community can come up with.