Most Mac users know of two ways to minimize an application or Finder window: double click the top of the window or use the keyboard shortcut, Command + M. There is, however, a slight variation on the latter that can …

Did you know that Microsoft created an “open” answer to Adobe’s PDF, which itself is an “open” standard? I remember reading about Open XML some years back, but had never knowingly run across Redmond’s twist. That blissful ignorance came to …

Whatever the subject or setting, shooting Camera RAW helps you retain more pixels than garden variety JPEGs. Apple’s latest RAW update adds new cameras to the mix, bringing compatibility to the company’s one-two consumer and pro punch — iPhoto and …

Viruses on the Mac — self replicating and spreading malware — are nonexistent, though there seems to be no shortage of trojans, such as the infamous FlashBack Trojan which infected hundreds of thousands of Macs. Whether the current threat is …

Amazon’s more than 50-percent off one-day sale on Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements and both products is over, but the savings continue with markdowns direct from Adobe, as well as reduced Mac App Store and, yes, Amazon pricing.
Amazon still has the …

In the entry-level image editing space, we essentially have Photoshop Elements, Acorn, Pixelmator and Lemke Software’s GraphicConverter. Of course, the latter is the only product available as shareware and ships with perhaps the best integrated slideshow functionality. Good stuff and …

The battle for the entry-level image and video editing markets is hot and Adobe, faced with able sub-$50 competitors, is staying in the fight with big discounts on Photoshop Elements, Premiere Elements or a bundle of the two. However you …

Google Search is useful and many of us it dozens of times a day. Whereas search results are generally spot on, clicking or copying one of those links doesn’t get you the true URL, but rather an indirect one generated …

Increasingly, hotels and conference centers only offer wifi internet connectivity. That is certainly good vis-a-vis convenience until you run into the all-too-common one device per connection limit. Yes, hotels et al will be glad to charge you again and again …

Why did hackers create the Flashback trojan and systematically seek out and infect more than 600,000 Macs? Of course, they did it for profit and it was speculated hackers could be making $10,000 a day from the resulting botnet. Intentions, …