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About 12 hours into my week-long Nexus 7 experiment, I realized just how much I missed my iPad. The first pitch was about to be thrown in the Red Sox game, so I visited Google Play to download a copy of MLB At Bat, expecting a similar experience to the one I had enjoyed for the past three years on Apple’s tablet. Not quite. Once I paid to upgrade from the lite version—a rambling, circuitous process that took about a half-inning to complete—I unlocked what appeared to be a dual-orientation phone app. The graphics didn’t come close to matching the quality of the screen, and live pitches were slow and jerky, with none of the superb animations that pepper its iOS counterpart. By the top of the third inning, I…

THE GEAR WE’RE LUSTING AFTER CHRIS S. INTUOS CREATIVE STYLUS www.wacom.com $99.95 »The Intuos Creative Stylus should be just the thing to help me get back in touch with my inner artist. Sure, it’s a little pricey, but this Bluetooth stylus promises 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity, so my illustrations are limited only by my imagination. It’s also designed with palm rejection in mind so I can rest my wrist naturally on my iPad while I draw. JOHN boltBOX www.scosche.com $24.99 »Messy, tangled charging cables can be a real pain, especially when I’m traveling or trying to reduce clutter on my desk. Fortunately, the boltBOX Lightning cable helps me keep things tidy by retracting neatly into its case when I’m not using it to charge and sync my iPhone 5.…

Your Mac can do millions of things, but sometimes even the best of us forget some of the cool stuff it can do—so we’re here to help jog your memory. Some of these tips need recent versions of OS X, but not all of them do. In some cases, these are little features that Apple has sneaked into upgrades that you might have totally missed, and some might be a classic light bulb moment of “I’d totally forgotten you could do that!” This is neither a formal nor an exhaustive list; we’ve just put our heads together to gather the 50 tips we think are awesome. If you’ve got favorite tips of your own to share, we’d love to hear them! Just toss them over to us at letters@maclife.com. SHOW…

Just as Disney has long made drawings come to life with its many classic animated films, the Disney Animated app takes what could have been a solid, static book and makes it feel exuberant and entertaining as an interactive experience, full of behind-thescenes footage and touch-based activities. The iPad app explores the long history of Disney’s in-house animation efforts, detailing the process step by step while explaining its many aspects using more than just words. Equal parts history lesson and breezy breakdown of making an animated motion picture, Disney Animated winds through chapters pertaining to story development, visual effects, and much more, with each blurb of text supported by pertinent examples. In some cases, these are simply still animation cels or sketches that you can tap to see larger on…

Radio has evolved to be something that you listen to on your own terms, and AGOGO gets this, bringing you personalized audio programming in a slick interface and with a number of curated channels. It pulls in the latest radio and news wire archives, podcasts, your local and online music collections, and other audio selections across many different areas. AGOGO’s stylish visuals come at a small cost to usability, with a few unintuitive quirks in how navigation affects playback. However, you’ll soon learn the internal logic for what constitutes browsing episode titles and channels, and what is akin to turning the dial. The inability to import non-Spotify or Rdio-integrated feeds is a drag, though. The bottom line. AGOGO’s personalized feeds and bold design make it a slick replacement for your…

Minimal design with a strategic punch Rymdkapsel is what we imagine playing an isometric, real-time strategy space game on the Atari might have been like back in the day—if the genre had existed then—and it’s fabulous. The complexities that come from gathering resources, expanding your space station, generating new minions, and defending your galactic turf from waves of invading aliens contrast wildly against the simple 8-bit-style aesthetic and tightly focused scope. There’s a certain charm to its simplicity, but enough depth to back it up and keep you immersed in the fascinating task of building out your tiny space-station empire. Minimalism keeps the intense building and battling pretty casual, making it easy to dive into Rymdkapsel’s absorbing flow. Your spacefarers are tiny rectangles that can be assigned to assorted tasks,…

Vaults into the arcade racing pantheon Compared to the generally so-so nature of previous entries, Asphalt 8: Airborne feels like a fresh start for the racing franchise, and is actually a rather amazing feat, especially for a mere dollar. As hinted by the title, it embraces a lively, raucous tone, littering the larger and more diverse locales with a bevy of ramps, including curved ones to send you spiraling through the air. But it’s more than a bit of four-wheeled flight that makes Airborne a much, much better and more enticing mobile racing experience. Fluid controls are paired with more realistic interactions with other vehicles, making for more-satisfying takedowns of rivals and crashes that don’t just look like Matchbox cars slamming into each other. The resulting sprints feel energetic and…

Better sound for your favorite ’buds Along with your iPhone, your earbuds are probably the thing you always have on your person. The trouble is, most earbuds don’t really sound that great. But as we found out, even mediocre earbuds can sound a lot better with a better seal in your ear. Comply offers a full range of replacement earbud tips designed to fit earbuds from more than 100 different makers. We tested the Comfort Plus model, which features a rounded ear tip, and a Wax-Guard screen, which keeps your ear funk from accumulating inside your earbud. Installing the ear tips was easy enough. After pulling off the stock rubber tips from our favorite earbuds, we slid the Comfort Plus tips in place. Comply tips are made from a soft,…

Protect your MacBook Pro’s power adapter with a little silicone and a lot of elbow grease Like Star Trek’s Mr. Scott, Apple’s engineers have well-deserved reputations for being high-tech miracle workers, but even they can only do so much about the laws of physics. Any moving part can become worn or damaged over time, and MacBook owners know few parts move more than their power adapter’s precious MagSafe cord. The Fray Fix adds a layer of protection to your faithful power brick’s most vulnerable spot, but in a way that’s anything but futuristic. The Fray Fix is a soft, sturdy band of flexible silicone that lets you thread your cord through it to fit around your power adapter, reducing the range of motion—and the chance for undue stress—at the cord’s…

Bose goes Mini with the great-sounding SoundLink Portable speakers are known for being portable first, and sounding great...well, almost never. Bose is aiming to change that perception with the SoundLink Mini, a diminutive 1.5-pound speaker that connects to any device via Bluetooth. With seven hours of playback on a single charge, and surprisingly good bass, the SoundLink Mini is an itty-bitty powerhouse, whether it’s on your desk or hanging out in the backyard. With its clean lines and aluminum enclosure, at first glance, you might mistake the SoundLink Mini for something designed by Apple. The matte-silver finish is similar to Apple’s brushed aluminum, and buttons are kept to a minimum, with a single row of six atop the device to control volume and other functions. For charging, the SoundLink Mini…

Home is where the heartbreak is There’s no wrong way to play Gone Home, the quiet, thoughtful, and deeply introspective first Mac game from the newly minted Fullbright Company, but there is an ideal way: at night, lights off, with headphones wrapped around an open mind. Set in a sprawling mansion in rural Oregon in 1995, Gone Home tells the story of the Greenbriar family. Players control Kaitlin, who has just returned from a year abroad to discover that her mother, father, and younger sister Sam are nowhere to be found. By searching the empty house, peeking into diaries, and rifling through the mail, Kaitlin pieces together her family’s recent history—and more pressingly, their whereabouts. Gone Home is primarily about exploration and investigation, with a delicate, restrained story told deftly…

Free your Mac from duplicate files with the easy-to-use utility, Gemini Unless you’re meticulous about managing the contents of your Mac, you can easily end up with all kinds of duplicate files and folders that can quickly gobble up gigabytes of precious storage, and make your computer run slower than a tortoise going uphill in a headwind. Accumulating all this stuff is easy to do, especially if you regularly import photos, download tracks from iTunes, or shuttle files between Macs on your network. One way to make headway with all this stuff—and make your Mac run leaner and meaner—is to find the offending files and simply remove them. But that can be a monumentally tedious and time-consuming task, which is where Gemini comes in. Gemini is a beautifully designed and…

Pivot tables summarize and compare data in spreadsheets and databases. They can be used to sort, count, average, or total data, using criteria you specify. So, if, for example, you had a spreadsheet that showed sales of different versions of a product in different regions, organized by date, you might want to know how many of one type were sold in a specific region in the period covered by the data. Or, you might want to know how many products in total were sold in a specific region on a specific date. But how to do this? You’ll need to create a second table, called a pivot table. In the first example, the pivot table would display product types and regions as the row and column headings in the table.…

Ever since Tim Cook took the reins, Apple observers have kept a keen eye on each new product, presentation, and piece of advertising to determine if the company has strayed from the trail Steve Jobs blazed for it. Jobs had previously been opposed to a seven-inch tablet, so by introducing the iPad mini, was Apple losing its way? Would Jobs have approved of iOS 7? Would a cheaper iPhone diminish the brand’s upscale identity? That kind of talk has made me think about Apple style—exactly what it is, and if Apple has indeed strayed from the principles it embodied during its historic rise. Most of us can tell if something is Apple-ish when we see it, but it can be tricky to define the exact qualities that clue us in.…

Seemingly rushed into production after the Apple co-founder’s death and drawing a wide mix of reactions to its casting choices, Jobs hit theaters on August 16 with little of the impact expected from a film about Steve Jobs. Director Joshua Michael Stern’s dramatic biopic opened on 2,381 screens, yet only notched $6.7 million in ticket sales in its opening weekend, landing at number 7 on the box office charts. It slid out of the top 10 during its second weekend while eking past $12 million in total earnings. Produced by Endgame Entertainment and Five Star Feature Films, Jobs stars Ashton Kutcher in the title role with a two-hour retelling of his rise from college dropout to Apple co-founder and creative force, including his dismissal from the company in 1985 and…

On today’s menu: alphabet soup. The future of your Mac, MacBook, iPhone, or iPad is tied to the future of RAM, CPU, DRAM, NVM, NAND, SSD, V-NAND, CTF, RRAM, ReRAM, GMR, MRAM, OST-MRAM, PCM, and WTF. Just kidding about that last one, but trust me, this is all interesting stuff. For geeks, that is. Of that laundry list, you already know what RAM is: the random access memory in your computer, smartphone, or tablet where the central processing unit (CPU) stashes the information it’s working on when it receives an email, runs a Photoshop filter, or slingshots an angry bird at a piggie. DRAM is dynamic RAM—essentially a bunch of capacitors that store the 1s and 0s that make computing devices tick. DRAM is fast and efficient, but it needs…

On July 23rd of this year, Apple announced that it had reached one billion podcast subscriptions via iTunes. One billion. This number is spread among 250,000 shows available in more than 100 languages with more than 8 million episodes published, and it’s safe to say that audiences’ appetites for quality podcast content will only be getting bigger. Since rocketing into the spotlight in the mid-2000s, podcasts have become an amazing medium with which anyone can share their thoughts and opinions on any topic imaginable. Relatively cheap to produce (you can start with your Mac’s built-in microphone or a single external USB mic and build from there) and easy to set up for a free subscription via the iTunes Store and an RSS feed, audio podcasting is as affordable and effective…

Whether or not you’ve ever scratched a record—or used the prior version, for that matter—your fingers will immediately know what to do with djay 2’s exquisite interface. And it’s even more fun this time around. The updated dual-turntable design turns up the volume on the realism, polishing the rougher edges and adding grooves to the digital vinyl that corresponds with the rhythm of each song. Your stack of wax is even easier to browse with a fresh music library that keeps track of your history and lets you quickly queue songs as you spin. But the killer new feature is the color-coded waveform layer, Algoriddim’s answer to Traktor DJ’s touchable grooves. It’s here where djay 2 breaks convention and takes advantage of the iPad’s infinite interface possibilities. With a tap,…

Like genre leader 1Password, Passwarden stores login, credit card, and other data with 256-bit AES encryption, with the option to sync it between OS X and iOS. Although the core functionality is largely the same, Passwarden’s “freemium” business model is a real kick in the teeth. You’ll pay for “DataRecords” for each entry, as well as a monthly (or yearly) syncing fee, and it really adds up. Moreover, Passwarden doesn’t stand out enough to justify that continued investment. It’s painted in a gaudy shade of blue with uninspired typefaces, and uses a proprietary server for syncing—unlike 1Password, which uses Dropbox and iCloud—which made us a little uneasy about storing our sensitive information. The bottom line. Dubious nickel-and-dime business model aside, Passwarden still pales in comparison to the password-storing competition. —J.R.…

My Muppets Show gives you the chance to put on your own titular performance, inspired by the classic TV series, by tacking myriad tasks around the stage. While the Muppets are true to form, the freemium building gameplay is of an ilk we’ve seen many times before with no real improvement on the basic design. Completing menial tasks—like cleaning up the stage and constructing concession stands—drives the action, with the goal of accumulating numerous Muppets to form your band. Much as the Muppets themselves entertain, the monetization is more forceful than in most such games, and the repetitive audio gets annoying fast when you don’t have a full band in play. That takes the shine off of a music-centric affair. The bottom line. Unless you’re a huge fan, find a…

Thanks to the birth of my son, my life has changed just a bit over the last six months. I’ve worked from my apartment as a freelance writer and editor for several years now, but home is no longer the quiet, predictable locale that’s allowed for very long, productive days in the past. Now I’m juggling the happiness and well being of my infant with the need to maintain both my career and day-today sanity. And while it’s tough going at times, I’m finally getting a hang of it—and several apps have been a huge help in keeping my baby-driven days on track. Much as my wife would love to be at home snuggling with our tyke, she’s at her office job five days a week. When she asks me…

Brains before beauty In case you haven’t noticed, there’s something of a health craze going on in technology. Ever since Nike married fitness and fashion in its stylish, LEDstudded FuelBand, geeks everywhere want to be seen wearing gadgets that blink, flash, and measure their activity. They look great on our wrists, but clunky interfaces and faulty synching often spoil the experience, leaving us with little more than an expensive piece of high-tech jewelry. But if we really want to transform from couch potatoes into health nuts, we need to develop intimate, long-term relationships with our wearable fitness pals. We can definitely see that happening with the Pulse. It may be a latecomer to a crowded market, but much like their other health-oriented products, Withings took the time to get Pulse…

Organize your most important stuff without a trip to Ikea Accessing files on the Mac has been a work in progress since the beginning of OS X. For proof, just look at the evolution of Finder windows and the Dock. Falling somewhere between those familiar fixtures, DesktopShelves offers a new way to help keep digital clutter at bay. Shelves are Finder folders opened through the DesktopShelves menu bar item or its contextual menu command. They share the folder’s name and contents (even any Finder labels you’ve applied) but look just like shelves from the real world, holding Cover Flow–like icons instead of your dusty action figures. Mousing over items in a shelf displays their names and enlarged icon previews, and from there you can open files or launch apps, reveal…

Making screenshots a snap Ember is the successor to the five-year-old LittleSnapper, and in classic Realmac style it offers powerful tools in a finely crafted interface. At its core, Ember helps you collect and organize images, whether they are screenshots destined for documentation, or inspiration you’re collecting for your next website design. Built around a clean, smart file browser and an excellent set of organizational tools, Ember is a bit of a niche product, but if you need its feature-set, the $50 price tag shouldn’t be a deterrent. Users of LittleSnapper will be familiar with Ember’s neat, Finder-like library, but first-timers will have no trouble learning the ropes. Pictures already stored on your Mac can be imported the old-fashioned way, but Ember excels at finding new discoveries, starting with handy…

A sleek, spendy, permanent home for your iPhone When your iPhone is brand-new, it can run all day. But after a few months, it can seem like your battery is shrinking by the minute. Most people deal with that situation by keeping an extra charging cord handy next to their Mac, and charging the iPhone while they work. It’s a bit clunky—and it takes two hands to unplug—but it works. Bluelounge’s Saidoka is a small rectangular puck of glossy white or black plastic designed to be a permanent home for charging and syncing your device. An angled cutout supports your iPhone, and aims it toward the connector built into the base. On a hard surface, the Saidoka sturdily stays in place, allowing you to dock and remove your iPhone one-handed.…

Discover three methods for exporting a PowerPoint presentation There are times when you’ll want to give a presentation but it’s not possible to have your MacBook with you. In these situations, an iPad is ideal; it’s small enough to carry around and whip out for an impromptu presentation. Obviously, in order to do that, you’ll need to get your presentation onto the iPad. But, with no standard Office for iOS available (although Office Mobile lets you access PowerPoint presentations through the subscription-only Office 365), you’ll have to try other routes. Which one suits you will depend on which iPad apps you have and whether you want to control the presentation or let it run automatically. If it’s the latter, then the simplest solution is to export the presentation from PowerPoint…

Sure, the general consensus on the Jobs film starring Ashton Kutcher is that it’s decidedly “meh” (see p16 for more details), but we have to admit that the creators and talent involved at least tried to make Steve Jobs’ life seem very moving and dramatic. In fact, they might have been trying too hard in some instances. With all due respect to Mr. Jobs, here are the movie’s top 10 most ridiculously dramatic instances. 1. Revealing the iPod The movie opens with incredibly dramatic music as Steve Jobs walks through the halls before standing in front of his employees to unveil the iPod. Sure, the iPod changed everything, but the movie made it seem like the world had never heard of MP3 players before. 2. Acid Tripping Jobs was evidently…

For years, Macs have had the reputation of being horrible gaming machines. I used to believe this, too—there’s no denying that comparatively few big games have been released for Macs. But not enough people have realized that the stereotype of the Mac having no games isn’t true anymore. Sure, Mac versions of big games are still few and far between, but think about it: with every Mac you buy nowadays, you also get a PC. Just partition off a part of your hard drive, use Boot Camp to power up your machine as a Windows PC, and pow—instant gaming PC! In the old days, being a Mac loyalist kept me from enjoying a lot of games, but now I don’t miss out on anything. My 2009 iMac is four years…

For more than 15 years, the PlayStation name has been synonymous with quality console gaming, but now Sony is hoping for the brand to make a bigger impact across multiple platforms—specifically onto iOS. Though this isn’t PlayStation’s first foray onto mobile devices (there were Android apps based on PlayStation games SOCOM and Starhawk, for example), Sony promises that their current projects—Counterspy and Doki-Doki Mail—will be on an entirely different level of cross-platform integration. “Our approach on these titles has been refined to include the extensions as part of the development process,” remarks Alex Lee, senior producer at Sony’s Worldwide Studios. “This way we can complement the quality and experience we’re offering on the PlayStation platforms. They are no longer companion applications; they become part of the overall experience.” Counterspy, developed…

BREAKING BAD: THE FINAL SEASON $29.99 (HD) By the time this issue hits stands, the beloved TV series Breaking Bad will be ending its tremendous run, and if the first couple of episodes are any indication, it’ll be a wildly intense and likely gut-wrenching ride towards Walt’s last stand. If you’ve cut the cord and don’t have AMC, you can catch all eight episodes via this season pass. And if for some reason you still haven’t seen the series, everything before this set is streaming on Netflix. THE REVOLUTION WAS TELEVISED Alan Sepinwall $12.99 Noted critic Alan Sepinwall has reviewed many a television episode over his career, but The Revolution Was Televised digs deeper into what he considers to be 12 of the most important serialized dramas of our time.…

A good cloud sync service is an essential tool for any OS X user. We all use a plethora of devices these days: work computer, home computer, iPad, and iPhone. Setting up a decent cloud sync service makes all the difference to your day. Maybe you use USB sticks to transfer files. You can still do this, but it’s unnecessary in the modern age. A good cloud sync service is much easier to use, and with so much competition, they all offer a free service that’s often good enough. Typically, these services provide a folder in OS X Finder where you can drop files. These are then uploaded to the cloud server and appear in the same folder on any other Macs (or PCs) you have connected to the service.…

It’s got the write stuff With rich formatting and powerful automation features, Editorial isn’t a stripped-down tablet app with a pretty face—it’s one of the best text editors we’ve ever used, on our iPads or anywhere else. There’s a lot to learn in Editorial, so expect to refer to its exhaustive help document quite often. An expanded Markdown-style keyboard adds a thin row of commands and punctuation marks that Apple loves to hide on its own interface, and tracing your finger along it doubles as a cursor for easy text selection. It’s not cluttered or unwieldy, and we actually found ourselves using the shortcuts it supplied, unlike those in some of the other apps we’ve tried. A swipe to the right reveals the accessory panels, which includes a live Markdown…

The classic’s comeback proves compelling It’s been an awfully long time since there was a new entry in the Ultima series, and its reappearance on iOS—as a free-to-play game, no less—might seem like a low-key comeback for a property that once helped pioneer computer role-playing games. But underneath its casual-looking exterior lurks a fun, if simple, dungeon-crawling MMO. Ultima Forever takes a lot of gameplay cues from Diablo, and with minimal detail to character creation, there’s just combat, story, and a big, semi-open map filled with towns and dungeons that you can visit and revisit as desired. Amassing loot drives the action, but there’s no way to sell off unwanted items to generate some cash—thus the free-to-play approach comes into play, as you might be tempted to spend real money…

Ever tried to rush your way through a busy street or a crowded room? That’s basically how Pivvot works. Like threading, turning, and shifting your body to weave through a throng of people, you need to rotate the centered on-screen marker in either direction to avoid incoming obstacles. Since Pivvot moves on rails—even if its path and objects are randomized—you can see what’s coming up just ahead of you, theoretically giving you a second to plan your next move. Obstacle types are introduced gradually, using a mixture of previously unlocked shapes as well as new ones that appear after hitting the requisite number of checkpoints. The shifting camera only amps up the difficulty, adding a dyslexic touch to the controls while upping the challenge. The bottom line. Avoidance is intriguing…

In a world of Siri and Dragon voice recognition, the longtime fantasy of completely ditching the keyboard is still pretty much that for folks who spend considerable time transferring words from their brains into their devices. Most are happy with the slim little Apple offerings that offer slick designs, but are less than optimal for touch typists. If you’re interested in moving up into something that is pure pleasure for your fingers, the Matias Laptop Pro is a Bluetooth version of their third-generation, mechanical keyboards that are popular with writers, data entry workers, and anyone who earns a living putting words to screen. The Laptop Pro is based on a different switch technology than Matias’ Tactile Pro keyboards, resulting in a significantly quieter sound when slamming away on the keys.…

Pay-as-you-go hotspot tries to spread goodwill (and Wi-Fi) With many iPhone plans featuring limits on data, as well as expensive overage fees, users often scramble for free (or at least affordable) Wi-Fi wherever they can find it. With Karma on your side, you can find Wi-Fi anywhere there’s a 4G signal via a compact hotspot designed for sharing. Karma is small, and in this case, that’s a good thing. The squarish puck is only 2.6 inches width and depth, and a mere half-inch thick. It’s easy to slide into a pocket or laptop bag, and at barely over two ounces, you won’t even notice it added to a bag. Karma connects to the Clearwire 4G network and rebroadcasts a Wi-Fi signal to up to eight devices. Speeds are typical of…

Google delivers cross-platform streaming, but where are the content providers? After stumbling with the Nexus Q media streamer last year, Google surprised even jaded tech fans this summer with an inexpensive HDMI dongle offering cross-platform playback to HDTVs. But can the search giant rally enough support from developers and streaming services to make Chromecast viable in the long term? This small plastic widget plugs directly into an HDMI-equipped HDTV and uses an available wireless internet connection to stream content summoned by supported mobile devices or desktop web browsers—all for a crazy-cheap $35. At first blush, the gadget sounds like little more than a clone of AirPlay, the Apple TV feature that allows iOS devices or OS X computers to beam content to the television over Wi-Fi. With a free extension,…

Intrigue amidst the clouds BioShock Infinite is at once a beautiful achievement in world-building, a moving sci-fi story populated by memorable characters, a thinking man’s ultraviolent shoot-’em-up, and an unflinchingly brutal critique of the myth and reality of America at the dawn of the 20th century. The first-person adventure sends private investigator Booker DeWitt on a trip to Columbia—a sprawling steampunk metropolis floating in the clouds—in 1912 to find and rescue young Elizabeth, who’s been kept isolated in a tower for her entire life. Elizabeth, it turns out, has the power to manipulate reality by opening quantum tears in the fabric of space and time, and while her abilities mean the plot takes some bizarre turns later on, she and Booker are only one part of the story. The real…

I am trying to install an app on my iPhone 4 8GB model. Every time I press “Install app,” a dialog appears saying, “There is not enough storage, cannot download app.” I have 1.5GB of storage available, and the app is only 870MB. Is there a setting that I need to change, or is something else going wrong? This is a common problem that many iOS users face when installing updates and new applications on their devices. Though you may think that you only need the amount of space that the app you’re downloading requires, that is far from the case. What Apple doesn’t tell you is that your device will actually need twice the amount of storage (or more). This storage is freed up after the installation of the…

In a past tutorial, we had a look at how to add keywords to your photos. The idea behind that was to make it easier to find the shots you wanted, whenever you accessed the Search feature. But you can make use of keywords in other ways. You could, for instance, create a Smart Album with keywords as search criteria. Smart Albums are dynamic folders that gather photos based on certain parameters. Like any other album, they just link to the originals, stored in your main library. What makes them different is that you don’t have to manually populate them with stills; just set up a few conditions, and iPhoto will do it all for you. You can organize smart albums based on a photo’s rating, date, and even location,…