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 …

With the Mac rapidly gaining market share in both the consumer and enterprise segments, more and more printer makers offer drivers. However, there are hundreds of unsupported models out there in the wild and you might be forced to use …

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 …

Classic games have die-hard fans. Over the years, these folks have revived a range of game franchises, like Marathon and Doom, just for the joy of it. Although the D2X-XL Project, which has created an OpenGL port of Descent 2, …

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 …

When Apple shipped iPhoto for iOS, it was immediately apparent that many of the maps used in the consumer grade mobile photo editing and management app have been sourced from OpenStreetMap — previously, Cupertino’s apps used Google Maps exclusively. Check …

The previous update shipped in August of last year and, sometime in the interim, v2.2.3 slipped through the cracks or a wormhole perhaps. Wherever it went, there is a fresh version for the rest of us that includes v0.97.4 of …

Last we spoke about VLC there was a major rewrite of this popular video playback solution, featuring a complete overall of the user interface and a plethora of new features. This time around it’s 90 percent bug fixes, the kind …

More than a few people, myself included, have stopped using Google’s Chrome browser — crashy and slow when running in OS X Lion. Maybe a little late, but Mozilla has heard those cries and has created a way to transition …

This is a major upgrade with faster decoding on multi-core, GPU, and mobile hardware and the ability to open more formats, notably professional, HD and 10bit codecs. There’s an all-new user interface that’s beautiful and easy to use — much …