Adobe has begun a new educational promotion for students and teachers. Piczilla’s North America Education Store is offering buyers additional $50 off their usual (up to) 80 percent mark downs. On the other side of the pond — specifically in …

Nomenclature can be deceiving — this particular patch looks like a simple dot fix, but there’s more here than you might expect. From new major language localizations to support for PDF files, you need to get this update.
Amazon has released …

If you’ve installed diskless version of Apple’s OS X Lion and need to perform a repair or reinstall, then having proper access to Internet recovery mode is rather important. That said, these three firmware updaters address issues related to just …

Little Apple Factory’s RipIt, the little DVD ripper that does, has been updated yet again. This latest release adds patches for a pair of popular titles, as well as a couple new features.
It’s my go-to app for DVD ripping, and …

A mere wisp of an update, wafer thin, a teeny tiny one. As iTunes updates go, this one’s pretty darned light both in terms of weight (10.5MB) and new features. Nevertheless, as it brings iBooks 2 syncing to iTunes, this …

As always, if you’ve got just one Brother 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 …

Windows Media formats are fading quickly across the interwebs, but there are still places that cling to these legacy, low-quality formats — c’est la vie. Until WMV et al are gone, there’s Flip4Mac Windows Media player for Mac, the free …

Do Berkeley Systems and After Dark ring any bells with you? One of the first things I installed my first Mac, a Color Classic, was the then new, cutting edge and, yes, entertaining package of screensavers. A redo of one …

Pixelmator and Acorn get more press, but GraphicConverter is an image editing app with a lot more history and, in many cases, better features. The latest point release is a case in point with important new functionality and builds out …

If you see this update reported elsewhere, it’s likely you’ll get the impression that something major has happened to Skype’s interface. Not so. In fact, it’s somewhat difficult (image above shows an example) to find anything different — still, it’s …