“We’ve actually spent some time working with other platforms. It’s a night and day difference. They’re more difficult for the user, they don’t have the power or the tools available. They don’t have the distribution network. They don’t have the …

The one and only maker of Mac tablets has been flying below the radar for months in part due to the arrival of the iPad. Now comes news that this Canadian company has taken a major step or two toward …

Heading out the door to pick up a bucket o’ the colonel for din-din, but had to share five fine, fine Apple Factory Certified Refurbished Macs, all for under $1,000. Yes, there’s the ever-popular 2.26GHz Mac mini — banish it …

My Musicality review generated an interesting back-and-forth on the merits of that app, as well as Pandora Air, an official app that runs on Adobe’s Air middleware. However, in searching for Pandora Air, which I tried and came to the …

Flash Player 10.1 is a big deal, but mostly for mobile platforms and it’s not entirely clear that’s gonna work out well. The one big come on for desktop users is H.264 hardware acceleration, but that isn’t available for Mac …

For my money, this is head and shoulders above the crowd best (free) antivirus solution for the fairer platform. Since being completely rewritten in Objective C (Java is gone), ClamXav is pretty darned fast and updated with reassuring frequency — …

The most annoying thing about Pandora (and Last.fm) is that it only runs in a browser window. Here’s an app that’s just barely an app, but it overcomes this deficiency while adding keyboard shortcuts and Growl notifications, which would make …

Poison, pleasure or a toxic mix of both, Facebook seems designed to elicit a strong reaction. Perhaps the scariest thing about the world’s number one social networking site is the advertisements, which targeted just a little too personally. Here’s a …

When it comes to Apple’s latest creation, utility is truly in the eyes of the beholder. From hospitals to musicians and restauranteurs to airlines, the iPad is finding steady employment in a diverse range of workplaces around the world, filling …

All of the attention at WWDC is focused on the iPhone, but our cousins from Redmond are there, too, and they’ve released a bunch o’ updates for Office 2004 and Office 2008, Entourage, and Open XML. They also stopped moving …