Suitable for digital framing and/or a place of pride on your coffee table. What exactly does one do with a digital only version of a special commemorative magazine? Dad used to hide memorable editions of the newspaper in the storage …

Like a lot of Apple decisions, dropping the open source SMB (a.k.a. Samba) for its own proprietary SMBX has produced a mixed bag of loathing and love. Yes, SMB was being moved to the restrictive GPL 3 license, obviating it …

As Perian begins its slow farewell comes news that world’s best loved open-source media player has hit an important milestone — one billion downloads. The odd things about the story is that VideoLAN, the group behind VLC Media Player, didn’t …

When Microsoft closed on Skype more than a few people assumed would Redmond, sooner or later, wreck the market-leading IM, chat and VOIP app into the ground. Personally, I don’t think there was much left to ruin. Folks overseas aren’t …

Competition is good and open source software is one of the driving forces of innovation on the Mac. Unfortunately, GIMP for the fairer platform was and still is a very compromised product — because it requires X11 to run, the …

Sweating the small stuff is what this Apple mobile operating system update is all about or, “ah-boot,” as my hoser friends say. Actually, I don’t have any friends on the more polite and culturally adept side of Lake Erie.
However, if …

Neither Gecko nor WebKit and definitely not Internet Explorer, Opera is beloved by a vocal minority of browser users because it’s fast and offers unique features. Part of the attraction is Opera’s strong development cycle and this release will burnish …

Amazon loves the rest of us as much as their PC addled customers, just four months later — Send to Kindle for Windows shipped back in January. Actually, that statement needs qualification — Bezos bunch loves Snow Leopard and Lion users, …

I have been beating this drum for years, though it’s only recently become fashionable to recommend every Mac user install and use antivirus software. But that’s just one of the free and easy steps you should take to secure your …

Apple’s much maligned MobileMe service will go dark on July 1 and is being replaced by iCloud, which is free for Mac, iPhone, iPad and iPod touch owners. The catch for Mac users is that they must be running OS …