It’s great that Skype 5.x can do group video calls. But that can’t make up for the reliability and the simply awful user interface. However, you can go back to an older, more stable version of Skype and it only …

Thar be updates o’ plenty. Apple has pushed out a batch of Mac bug fixes with nary a new feature in sight. Whereas the patches for Snow Leopard are of fairly modest weight, Leopard users have much beefier items lurking …

Sunny days spent in rude health. This fine morning found me, a mug of Dunkin’ Dark in hand, laughing out loud at Dunesbury when Scruffy, the American Kennel Club certified feature retriever, came scratching at my sun porch door with …

Tired of being tracked, whatever that means, by advertisers, their surrogates and pimps? An unheralded and likely not yet fully fleshed out “Do Not Track” feature is built into Safari 5.1, which ships as part of Apple’s Mac OS X …

As always, if you’ve got just one Canon printer, run Software Update to get the specific driver you need. For sys admins and archivists, you may begin downloading now and here’s hoping your collection is complete before you run out …

What’s hot and fresh on Apple’s game changing iPhone and iPad App Stores? Well, there’s an app for that app. The latest twist on discovering software is a new screensaver from Majic Jungle, the creators of my current favorite Mac …

With the codecs in VLC and Perian, both of which are free and open source, you can play most video files. Without them, you can either go without or pay for the privilege. That said, important updates for both packages …

With even Adobe making improved tools, there’s little doubt that HTML5 is the future of animation, video and interactivity on the web. Thereupon, the competition to be the browser with the best HTML5 support is heating up and everyone’s favorite …

A big whole number update for this popular Photoshop replacement, featuring Quickmask, magic erase, layer styles, rotating text and shapes, multi-stop + live gradients, gradients on shapes and text, stroked text, new filters and fonts, and more.
Acorn 3 (release notes) …

Do you want to make your Mac more secure? Here’s a fast and easy way to secure your Mac against unwanted and unauthorized intrusions — there’s nothing to install — you’ve got a Mac, so it just works.
Mac OS X’s …