With a seventh beta already in developer hands, Apple’s just about ready to release their seventh Snow Leopard maintenance update. With a not ill-generous girth of 541.5MB, OS X 10.6.7 is an important patch even though it puts little if …

Wednesday was a busy day for Apple’s software simians with the release of iOS 4.3 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, as well as Apple TV 4.2. And, then there’s the passel of tweaks, fixes and patches for Safari, which …

Once a year, almost every band, publicist and journalist affiliated with the music industry descends upon Austin for a weeklong parade of music, beverages, BBQ, music and more beverages. Full of private parties, secret events, label showcases, indie-celeb spotting and …

The iPad 2 launch has led to a bumper crop of parodies and many of them are unfunny, often mean spirited. The exception to date is Autotune Steve Jobs: The iPad 2 song, which is catchy and, if not particularly …

Think your iTunes installation is up-to-date? If you haven’t run Software Update since last week, chances are it’s not — the system administrator’s work is never finished. Slurp it down automagically or install the old fashioned way, it’s ready and …

Here’s a point update, perhaps the last v3.x.x that will ship, for the Mac that addresses some longstanding issues and keeps the feeds flowing. This is a maintenance release and doesn’t contain new features, but it likely heralds the beginning …

The King’s Speech (iTunes, $5.95) was written by London Sunday Times journalist Peter Conradi and Mark Logue — grandson of Lionel Logue, whose recently discovered diaries and correspondence contain fascinating details about these true events.
At the urging of his …

The problem with most music streaming services on the desktop is that they only playback in a browser window or in an Adobe Air app — as users experiences go, not the best. Thereupon, the Rdio for Mac (download) is …

I’ve never owned an electronic device where actual battery performance exceeded the manufacturer’s claims — they never did, not even Apple products. At least none of them ever did until I purchased an iPad and that’s been one happy surprise …

Last week, the Fairer Platform noted the release of Firefox and Thunderbird patches, which came to market with stability and security fixes. Unfortunately, those updates themselves introduced new problems requiring Mozilla issue a new pair patches.
There was Firefox 3.6.14, and …