Is an application still free or, for that matter, open source if you have to pay for support? NeoOffice, a popular Mac-only OpenOffice variant, has changed its support policy to favor existing donors and that has some users in an …

Security and stability together? Sounds like a perfect marriage match except for the simple fact that both apps will soon be updated for the same things in a week or three, which sounds quite a bit like my marriage. Come …

The Mac has always excelled at speech synthesis — it’s been in there since the very first Mac shipped back in 1984. In the release of Apple’s next-generation desktop operating system, the company is giving this under appreciated feature a …

Camino’s a fine, fine browser that’s pretty darned fast on older Macs, but it will never get the updated JavaScript and Gecko goodness baked into the latest Firefox release. Thereupon, Mozilla hasn’t included PowerPC support in Firefox 4. What’s a …

Apple today launched the iTunes Music Store, a revolutionary online music store that lets customers quickly find, purchase and download the music they want for just 99 cents per song, without subscription fees. The iTunes Music Store offers groundbreaking personal …

When it comes image editing, my needs and workflow are quite simple. Crop, rotate, size, knockout, combine images using layers, add text and save for web pretty much covers it. Acorn is a simply powerful image editor that gets all …

There’s been a lot of buzz of late that upcoming Macs will ship with Retina displays. Where did that come from? Well, folks discovered that Mac OS X Lion includes a handful of really, really, big application icons — 1024 …

The first two days of the week have seen four new downloads posted on Apple’s Support Downloads Page. With the white iPhone due at any time and updated iMacs coming next week, we can perhaps expect more. In the meantime, …

What’s the most ridiculous waste of time since antennagate? Why the ongoing kerfuffle over smartphone tracking data, of course! There’s a file filled with incomplete and generally highly inaccurate information, but there’s evil afoot — evil I say.
Whereas Steve Jobs …

You say “tit,” I say “tat.” When it comes to mobile file management, Dropbox and Evernote really have the market covered, and it’s fairly common for the two companies to deliver fixes on the same day with one of …