There was a time when every post, change or interface tweak made to a blog required FTP. Web apps have greatly reduced the need, taking over most day-to-day tasks, but there’s no substitute for a capable client when there’s heavy …

As Japan recovers from the devastating earthquake and tsunami that struck on March 11, the world’s top recording artists respond to the tragedy with this benefit album. The 38 tracks include some of their biggest hits, featuring an exclusive remix …

Movies and software. Software and movies. The Downloads folder on my Mac is usually chock full of them. Whereas I can’t tolerate a messy Desktop and clear it off several times a day, trashing unneeded files and putting away the …

After years of sloppy seconds from Skype, version 5.0 brought us within a hair’s breadth of feature parity with our Windows cousins. Now, the industry-leading voice and video over IP solution moves an inch closer with the addition of new …

For many years, OS X maintenance and security meant manually clearing caches, repairing permissions, repair and look out as best I could for any suspicious files and activity. Those semi-informed, infrequent effort and worry has been replaced by a pair …

Perhaps today is a good day to buy? With the asking slashed by five bucks, and a maintenance update just out, this top-down space shooter inspired by the “recent motion picture,” JJ Abrams’ widely acclaimed 2009 reboot, looks pretty good …

If you’ve got a video that won’t play in iTunes or QuickTime, the first best choice is VideoLAN.org’s VLC Media Player. This update comes loaded with updated codecs, some fresh choppers for the spry grandaddy of video playback solutions for …

Daniel Jalkut, founder of Red Sweater Software, has posted a fairly substantive update of his popular, market-leading blog editing solution. From John Grubber to ten-thousand and one little guys, MarsEdit’s the go to publishing app for WordPress, Blogger, Tumblr, Squarespace, …

Over the course of Mozilla’s eight-month beta testing period, a lot of people complained (myself included) about Firefox 4′s general sluggishness and continued bloat. With the finished product now available, user adoption of the updated browser is anything but sluggish.
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Free is good and thar be stuff! If you’re in the mood to help MacUpdate promote their Spring 2011 Bundle with a tweet, then you can get free “as in beer” copies of QuickPick and Secret of Monkey Island, which …