While not for the faint of heart, this powerful modular synthesis toolbox should appeal to synth pros.

The Elite-AL Pro Mini portable hard drive offers versatile connection options and produced some impressive times for a portable drive with its copy and duplication tests.

We look at three of the many quiz applications offered in the App Store and find that Moron Test and the latest edition of Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader both make the grade.

While most 3D programs on the market play nicely with Adobe’s industry standard apps, none have thus far created an integrated system that removes the guesswork for its users. That’s the strength of Strata Design 3D CX 6.1.

This free-form task-management app inherits many features of its Mac counterpart, along with a few iPhone tweaks. While it doesn't provide the kind of advanced scheduling and task-management features you'll find in some other apps, for many types of lists, as well as for creating outlines and taking notes, there's a lot to like.

All in all, the 3M MPro120 is a solid performer with excellent image quality, outstanding battery life, and easy-to-use features.

Street Fighter fans are rejoicing everywhere, because Capcom's Street Fighter IV has finally made its way onto the iPhone. While not a pitch-perfect port of the popular console fighter, Street Fighter IV for the iPhone captures the spirit of the intense one-on-one battles that distinguish the series.

On Saturday, the Game Developers Conference wraps up at San Francisco’s Moscone Center. By all accounts, it’s been a very exciting week for Mac gaming.

Developed by Gameloft, Pocket Chef is a cooking simulation game for the iPhone designed for the cooking-impaired.

There's a lot to like about the Devour smartphone, especially its social networking features, intuitive user interface, and sturdy design, but it also has some shortcomings.

Power Cam is one of many apps trying to make your picture-taking a bit easier, and while the $1 offering does add some interesting features, it doesn't measure up to similar photography apps.

Quiet Read lets you quickly store, and quickly access, URLs you want to save for later viewing.

Are You Alright? is a medical-themed time-management game. Unfortunately, bugs and long load times distract from an otherwise enjoyable experience.

Jawbone's Icon Bluetooth headset look great, provides a comfortable fit, and includes unique downloadable apps. Unfortunately, the call quality isn't as impressive.

This paid version of the music-identification app delivers a number of features -- chiefly unlimited tagging of songs. It's a solid app, but unless you find yourself using it a lot or find the other features particularly appealing, the free version of Shazam will probably meet your needs.

Although Ion's Tape 2 PC is a relatively simple way to convert the audio on your cassette tapes to digital files for use on your computer, the process for editing those imported files can be either complicated or time consuming, depending on which provided Mac application you use.

There are still some of the same differences between the two major desktop tax preparation programs, Intuit TurboTax and H&R Block At Home (formerly TaxCut. But TurboTax has improved.

People who are willing to take care of data entry but who like the ability to consult with a tax pro as needed might find H&R Block's Best of Both a good compromise between going to an H&R Block office and doing their taxes entirely by themselves online.

TaxAct's tax help is adequate for many situations, and it's a terrific deal, especially if you don't stand to benefit from the data-import options available in TurboTax and H&R Block at Home,

Sign of the times: Most people who use software to prepare and electronically file their income tax returns now opt for Web services.

TurboTax is worth its price premium for anyone who can benefit from TurboTax's superior data import capability, or its superlative context-sensitive help and navigation features.

This app add some nice options to the iPhone's camera -- most notably an anti-tilt feature that keeps your shot level no matter what -- and makes a nice addition to any shutterbug's tool-set.

Tank Raider is a retro tank arcade game by Sunday Solutions that puts you at the controls of an arcade tank pitted against three crafty computer-controlled tanks. Your mission is to capture and hold more gems than the other tanks.

The Ultimate Sith Edition is set in the years between Episode III and Episode IV in the Star Wars canon. Darth Vader has sent you, his secret apprentice, to track down and kill rogue Jedi.

If you like to send cutesy images with your MMS messages, txtagif will be an iPhone app dream come true, even though the free app has a few flaws.

This powerful pico projector delivers very bright images and crisp text, but lackluster color and limited battery life lower its ranking.

This app taps an RSS feed to pump out the first half-dozen words of news headlines, requiring you to play an individual game of hangman on one or more of those words. It's easily one of the more clever and challenging hangman games in the App Store.

Uncle Sam stripped your brother of his Medal of Honor. In this WWII combat simulator, you need to find out why.

Even if you don't know an f-stop from a doorstop, you can easily create wide-angle panoramas with the help of this easy-to-use image editor.

This nicely designed, easy-to-use app that may provide a valuable service for some users. But My Med ID is not without its downsides.

Inspired by the recently released film from Disney and director Tim Burton, Alice in Wonderland is a remarkably clever 2-D adventure game that is more than a mere movie tie-in.

The tiny Optoma PK102 pico projector delivers vivid color images and handles stand-alone presentations via its built-in media player.

A year after the release of the FileMaker 10 database program, version 11 has arrived, with new tools and great new features that make it even easier to use.

Thanks to their ease of use, excellent post-workout reporting features, innovative sharing functions, and pleasing interface, Runmeter and Cyclemeter are among the best fitness apps you'll find for the iPhone.

While the GXR sounds like good news for photographers looking for a high-quality shoot-from-the-hip camera for street and travel photography, getting set up doesn’t come cheap.

Espionage provides a unique twist on encrypted disk images, integrating them with Finder folders.

Noby Noby Boy is less of a game than an experience, and it’s the kind of experience that feels like a trippy art project that’s tough to appreciate.

The PocketCinema V10 Plus is an extremely versatile stand-alone pico projector, but its image quality is undistinguished.

iZotope Music & Speech Cleaner is easy to recommend for anyone who needs to clean up audio files frequently.

While there are a few minor interface issues with these mobile versions of the Audubon Field Guides, the apps focusing on birds, mammals, wildflowers, and trees all deliver the power and depth you'd expect from the National Audubon Society.

If you're looking for a new headset -- headphones with a microphone and inline controller -- for your iPhone or iPod, we take a look at 11 models in our latest roundup.

The new Bloggie MHS-CM5/V pocketable Sony camcorder has a 5X optical zoom, and shoots 1080p footage at 30fps and 5 mega-pixel photos. It's also compatible with SD/SDHC cards, ending the company's Memory Stick-only era.

Instead of the normal "run-and-gun" mayhem, Doom II RPG is a turn-based role playing game with more emphasis on strategy and dungeon crawling than pure gunplay.

Laptop bag that looks like is escaped from the 1970s.

Juicy Development’s FastTrac claims it can get users on more rides and attractions at Disneyland while avoiding long queue times.

For just a buck, this voice-morphing app proves to be a decent source of entertainment.

Finally combining my love of gardening and my need to slaughter the undead, Plants vs. Zombies is a unique tower defense game from PopCap Games

In these days of login-mania, a password manager is almost a requirement if you want to keep your data secure while maintaining your sanity. 1Password on the Mac and the iPhone is a hard combination to beat, regardless of which version of the mobile app you use.

If you're feeling a little nervous about using Macs for the first time, the Switch To Mac Edition might well be worth the extra money.

If you plan on doing any snorkeling on your next visit to Hawaii, this reference guide's vivid pictures and information will prove to be a worthy travel companion.