What could be wrong with marrying BitTorrent and Twitter? Well, aside from the fact that the great majority of torrent traffic is “illegal” and Twitter is innately public, nothing at all. With that in mind, BitTorrent has announced in a …

Running out of hard disk space on your Mac or Windows PC? If you have (or have had) multiple iPhones, iPod touches or iPads, there’s a very good chance old, unused backup files you no longer need are wasting a …

Ever vigilant (go ahead, flame me) Mozilla has updated their popular open-source email client. Likewise Qualcomm has pushed Eudora, a Thunderbird variant, another step closer to the release of final code. However, perhaps the most important story in this post …

One of the most common and frankly silly criticisms of the iPad is that it’s “only” for content consumption. Well, here at the FairerPlatform, we’re not just iPad blogging, content creating types, but we’re none too shy about promoting other …

Ian Page has updated the mobile version of his indispensable Mactracker, which provides detailed information on every Mac ever made, including processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported OS versions and expansion options. This powerful app also includes info …

The company that once touted itself as the world’s number two online music store is planning a new website, as well as a cloud-based locker, to attract new customers. Although its subscriber base is off 16 percent from a peak …

Bryce has been a fixture on the fairer platform for more than a decade and a half, which measured in internet years is something like a century. With a huge and vibrant user and developer community behind backing them up, …

It’s rather disingenuous to say that the latest Chrome dev channel build is faster than last week’s publicly released version of Safari, especially when it’s so easy just to go get the latest build of WebKit, the open-source development version …

The web is awash in free books, though my subjective view is that few of these are worth the time. So, it’s something of an event when a truly good book can be had just for the asking. That said, …

Alexander Clauss has updated his highly capable and I believe best-of-class mobile browser for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. iCab Mobile 3.6 (iTunes, $1.99) comes to market with a mix of improved, iOS 4 tweaked and fixed features that …