A big chunk of reheated new for the company’s under serviced professional applications — perhaps they’ll get a little more love here at the beginning of Apple’s fourth age? Whatever the case, there are updates aplenty for the pro users …

SoundSpectrum has been pinching and tweaking its stable of iTunes visualizers for weeks and it appears the dust has settled. That is, point updates with new and revised features have shipped and been followed up by dot-fixes to clear up …

A little advice, if you’re planning a trip down a wormhole, do it before you eat. And, given the choice, which would you choose — the blue pill or the red pill? I suppose if a simmering cool babe in …

The year isn’t quite over, but Walter Isaacon’s Steve Jobs has already been crowned the best selling book of 2011. Of course, the really interesting bit is that it went on sale a month and a half ago — a …

What does dominance smell like? Not Internet Explorer. At the other end of the spectrum sits Opera, which is the embodiment of the underdog with measures of laggard and innovator all mixed together in an all-in-one web + email client.
“We’ve …

Here’s a little problem that you may have come across — you try to delete files from an external hard drive and you get hit with this annoying message:
“The operation can’t be completed because backup items can’t be modified, OK?”
Wreck …

Every month, About This Particular Macintosh delivers an eclectic mix of Mac flavored reviews, analysis, opinion and, well, stuff. Therein, a regular feature is reader submitted desktop pictures (a.k.a. wallpapers), which might sound like a Sunday night potluck but actually …

There’s a nasty Java exploit making the rounds and it affects anyone with Java installed and enabled. However, protecting yourself is easy and will only take a couple minutes — update Java and then, unless, you use it all of …

This isn’t a screensaver. It’s more like a festive seasonal sheer curtain to drape over your Mac during the Winter months — a gentle snow shower that will deposit “flakes” on the tops and bottoms of Finder and application windows. …

One of my favorite movies of the last decade is the original The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (iTunes). Freaky, dark and taught, it’s a view into a world that I’ve never lived in, but nevertheless “get.”
The new Americanized version …