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• Geared for IPhone Geared, a $1 game from developer Bryan Mitchell with a free lite counterpart, is a clever puzzle game for the iPhone. You're presented with two already-placed...
• General Mobile DSTL1: Good Software, Clunky Hardware The General Mobile DSTL1 smartphone offers all the great features of Google's Android operating system, but it has some major hardware flaws.
• Mac OS X 10.6.2 Hack Gets Atom Support Back The OS X 10.6.2 update dropped support for the hackintosh-friendly Intel Atom processor. Just two days after the update was released, it was hacked to allow the chip to be used once again.
• Third-party Screensavers Return to Snow Leopard When Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) was first released, I noted that many (maybe even all) third-party screensavers would no longer work in the new OS. This was...
• Sony Online Service to Challenge iTunes? Fat Chance Sony has little hope to rival Apple's iTunes with a new music service called Sony Online Service.
• Toggle Sidebar Visibility in All Open Finder Windows When I publish hints here on Macworld, I usually try to walk through and explain how they work, so as to help you understand what's going on behind the scenes...
• Some Nook E-readers Won't Make It for the Holidays Either Following similar news from Sony this week, Barnes & Noble said its e-reader won't ship for some people by the holidays.
• Isabella's Vizit Less Memorable Than We Had Hoped The Vizit digital photo frame by Isabella makes uploading and sending pictures a snap, but the high price tag and uninspired design are big turn-offs.
• Sold-out! Grinch Steals Nook Christmas No, Virginia, there is no Nook for Christmas. Shortage means you are more likely to find Santa Claus than a Nook e-reader under this year's Christmas tree.
• Get Chrome OS Now Google's new operating system doesn't run right out of the box, so here's how to install it on your choice of platform.
• Mad Skills Motocross Back in the days of my misspent youth, one of my favorite arcade games was Vs. Excitebike, a side-scrolling motocross racing game based on launching a little...
• Torture Tests: Stylus Tough 8000 Camera and XP3 Quest Phone The Olympus Stylus Tough 8000 point-and-shoot camera and the Sonim XP3 Quest rugged phone are supposed to be tough. How tough? We decided to find out.
• Canon Selphy CP790 At first glance, Canon's Selphy CP790 snapshot printer looks more like a lime-green lunch pail. With its convenient handle, it begs you to take it to your next...
• Keyboards Buying Guide Is there a more underappreciated part of your desktop computer system than the keyboard? It's the second-most-used component--after the display, of course--and...
• Mice Buying Guide All hail the humble mouse, lowly foot soldier of the productivity wars, pint-size pointer-pushing pawn in service to mighty King Mac. Your mouse is the only...
• Xbox LIVE Gold Free Today Through Monday Microsoft drops its Xbox LIVE Gold cover charge for the weekend to let the masses sample services like online multiplayer, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, and Last.FM.
• Twitter Turns on Geolocation Functionality Twitter has turned on its geotagging functionality for external applications.
• Got Extra USB Drives? Updated Pogoplug Puts Them to Use $129 hardware device turns USB hard drives into an Internet storage cloud for multimedia and data.
• World Tech Update: Google Chrome, Obama in China, and More... Google open sources its Chrome OS, Obama in China, and an application from Microsoft displays massive amounts of data graphically.
• Nokia Cuts Research Staff by up to 330 People Mobile phone giant Nokia on Friday said it will cut up to 330 people from its research and development staff.
• Five Reasons Google Chrome OS will Succeed Google Chrome OS is impressive and will thrive as it redefines what a modern day operating system should be.
• Five Reasons the Google Chrome OS will Flop The Google Chrome OS is generating excitement, but it doesn't seem to be compelling enough to be worth the hype. Here are five reasons Chrome will ultimately fail to impress.
• Techies Gather for a Lunch to Save the World The 43rd floor of the Spear Tower in downtown San Francisco is empty. Possibly because of the slumping economy, there's just a big, open office space with...
• First Look: Super Monkey Ball 2 The original Super Monkey Ball was an App Store launch game and sold like gangbusters. Taking advantage of the iPhone's accelerometer controls and already...
• Snapture for IPhone Getting the most out of the limited iPhone camera is one of the hurdles facing iPhone owners, and the sheer volume of camera apps in the App Store can be...