It hardly bears saying anymore. It’s just something everyone knows — iTunes sucks. Personally, on the whole I rather like Apple’s jukebox + store + device manager + app repository. It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but …

As always, when the mothership posts updated drivers for Mac compatible printers, you can get the model specific software you need simply by running Software Update. Thereupon, sys admins and the purely acquisitive aside, there’s no need to download the …

There are perhaps two and a half ways to access or type special characters in Mac OS X. The first is to hunt and peck for the symbol you need using the Special Character Viewer (System Preferences > Keyboard > …

The Apple camera connection kit costs more and does less. This sounds like a recipe for an intervention by the company’s notoriously active and humorless legal department, which killed the über realistic Steve Jobs doll action figure and has generally …

There’s a fresh version of piczilla’s multimedia middleware out there to download. However, the company hasn’t seen fit to provide any release notes or a change log, though it seems safe to assume that the focus is security. That is, …

If you do more than just browse and email on your Mac, chances are you’ve got one or more Adobe apps your machine. Like Apple, the maker of Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere, Illustrator, Acrobat, etc. generally is none too generous with …

Although I’m sure it’s happened at some point or another, I can’t remember ever having to update Apple’s default OS X word processor, TextEdit, to improve security, stability or whatever. Still, if you spend eight hours or more a day …

When using an iTunes visualizer, did you know nearly all visualizers offer a range of controls for tweaking the experience? For example, by pressing the “i” key, you can get iTunes to display the track information. Also, if the visualizer …

The humble iTunes visualizer doesn’t get a lot of attention, which belies the mathematical and computational complexity required to create it, and the often mesmerizing displays they produce. One of the higher practitioners of this under appreciated art form is …

Just in time for the movie premiere of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, comes the complete audiobook of C.S. Lewis’ epic tale of adventure The Chronicles of Narnia (iTunes, $9.95). Featuring lively readings by Patrick Stewart, Lynn Redgrave, Kenneth …