It is one thing for Apple to allow weeks to pass before issuing a patch for the BackDoor FlashBack trojan and quite another for the great majority of Mac users not to install it, which is apparently the current state …

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 …

Earlier this week, Apple promised a way to remove the Flashback trojan and has now delivered, but with a serious caveat — these Lion and Snow Leopard patches remove the most common but not all versions of the malware, which …

Lion misbehaving? Though Apple’s OS X is very reliable, every operating system, Lion included, needs to be maintained and updates for two of the more popular utilities designed for that purpose are available. Keep Lion purring on your Mac.
Northern Softworks, …

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

Whether or not Apple’s next generation portables include an optical drive or not, the leading disk burning solution on the fairer platform will still be Roxio’s Toast. Come what may, there’s an update available that addresses OS X 10.7 compatibility …

When Apple shipped OS X 10.7, it was the final nail in the coffin for PowerPC applications, ending support for a codebase and processor technology Apple helped create and then bring to market way back in 1994. Lion also saw …

Our good friends, and they are, at Apple have just released a supplemental update for OS X 10.7.3. The purpose thereof is the resolution of an issue with malfunctioning Time Machine backups. Recommended for all Lion users, the specific issue …

Northern Softworks’ Lion Cache Cleaner is billed as a “one stop solution for all your OS X maintenance needs.” Well, add a feature to that claim — the ability to activate GateKeeper in OS X 10.7.3. Yes, it’s a OS …

I am a big fan of screensavers — always looking for new (and old) stuff. That said, I recently stumbled on a website offering a collection of 14 Quartz screensavers, most of which display smoothly on my older Mac.
The Ethereal.org …