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 …

If you have been using the Mac for awhile, then you know at least one way to kill a misbehaving and/or unresponsive app. The method most folks know is ⌥ + ⌘ + Esc (Command + Option + Escape) and …

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 …

Dashboard Widgets in OS X haven’t gotten much if any love from Apple in, well, years. Nevertheless, this interface technology, which dates back to OS X 10.4 Tiger, has its fans and adherents as evidenced by the arrival of OneMac’s …

In the late ’90s and early noughties, a developer or hacker at an open source or security conference with an Apple notebook was often a minority of one. These days it can be hard to find anyone carrying a portable …

Apple’s latest Mac operating system opus, OS X Mountain Lion, is currently in beta and generating surprisingly little heat — last year at this time, the inter webs were chock full of Lion previews and feature descriptions.
However, one mystery about …

A bear and eight cats. Hmm, makes you wonder whether Apple’s Unix-based Mac operating system is running out of lives? ‘Twas eleven years ago on Saturday, March 24 that OS X 10.0 Cheetah was delivered unto a highly expectant world. …

Is a Mac still a Mac if it can’t “moof” or make the call of the “wild eep”? I think not. But you can get back what Apple took away from us all of those years ago with Steven Jay …

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 …