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• IMedia Browser Makes Accessing Your Media Easy Apple's iLife suite make it easy to share your media--photos, music, and movies--between iLife's programs thanks to a handy media browser. Karelia's iMedia...
• Notify 2 Pro Metamorphoses Into Lightweight E-mail Client E-mail's a very important part of our everyday lives. Between the newsletters, the personal correspondence, the "hold on, did you get that thing I sent you"...
• Mac News Briefs: BBEdit 9.3.1 Released Bare Bones Software released an update to BBEdit Tuesday, giving a maintenance boost to the popular and heavy-duty text editor. BBEdit 9.3.1 fixes a number of...
• Force Mail in 10.6 to Only Copy E-mail Addresses One of the subtle changes in Mail in OS X 10.6 is the way the Copy Address contextual menu works. In previous versions of Mail, when you Control-clicked on an...
• Google Releases Chrome Beta for Mac As promised, the Google Chrome for Mac beta has just made it in under the wire for a 2009 release. Of course, it's still just a beta, not a first release--and...
• E-mail and the Advantages of Deception Reader Gary Campbell expresses a concern about his privacy along these lines:
• Mac News: BusyCal 1.1 Adds 64-bit Snow Leopard Support BusyMac upgraded BusyCal, the multi-user calendaring software it bills as "iCal Pro", to version 1.1, with many changes to both the user interface and under the...
• ITunes Compilations: What Holds Them Together? When you rip a CD in iTunes--or when you buy an album from the iTunes Store, Amazon, or other vendor--there are a number of tags you can set, such as the album...
• Macs Reclaim Top Reliability Rating Apple has retaken the top ranking for computer reliability, edging out Asus.
• Acer Edges Dell in PC Sales iSuppli is now ranking Acer in the number 2 spot for global PC sales, based largely on its laptop shipments.
• Apple Quietly Adds New Mac Pro and Xserve Configurations If you weren't swayed by Rob Griffiths's reasoning that the iMac was now, for many people, a more sensible option than the Mac Pro, you'll be glad to know that...
• ShareTool Extends Bonjour Over the 'net I seem to spend an inordinate amount of time trying to access data and media hosted on a machine that I'm not near--I use Dropbox, LogMeIn, Timbuktu Pro, and...
• Move BBEdit's Documents Drawer to the Other Side I've begun using BBEdit as my primary text editor, as Smultron is no longer being updated, and isn't quite working right for me in Snow Leopard.
• Steampunk Tech Mods: A 19th-Century Take on 21st-Century PCs and Gadgets If Sherlock Holmes--or Jack the Ripper--had owned our technology, his equipment might have looked like this.
• Microsoft: Don't Believe the Black Screen of Death Hype The dramatic-sounding reports over a Windows 7 "black screen of death" are inaccurate, Microsoft says -- and blown way out of proportion.
• Quicksilver Beta 57 Released, Not Dead Yet Fans of the launcher-and-do-everything utility Quicksilver have been concerned for a while that it had might have transformed into a Norwegian Blue parrot. The...
• Airlock Uses Your IPhone to Secure Your Mac The MHA, a Kentucky-based software company with a name that can be tough to work into sentences, released Airlock on Tuesday. Airlock unlocks your Mac when you...
• QuickerTek Unveils Solar-powered MacBook Chargers Planning on being away from a wall outlet with your MacBook for a long time? QuickerTek has released a pair of solar chargers for your laptop, letting you carry...
• Is the 27-inch IMac All It's Cracked up to Be? The quad-core iMac may among the fastest Mac models. But the 27-inch all-in-one desktop might be at risk for a feature that Mac users will not find as...
• Apple Opens up ITunes LP and Extras to Developers Looking to author your own interactive extras for the iTunes store? Well, à la the App Store, Apple has now opened up iTunes LP and iTunes Extras for independent...
• Psystar Sold Just 768 Mac Clones I don't know what kind of beverages they serve at Psystar's Miami headquarters, but I'll take a double helping, thanks. In what can only be termed "extremely...
• Google Chrome for Mac Beta Will Lack Several Features TechCrunch is reporting that in order to meet a self-imposed end-of-year deadline for the beta release of the Chrome Web browser for Mac, Google is trimming...
• Apple Store Offers Free Shipping for Holiday Shoppers If you thought that shopping fever would subside once Black Friday was behind us, you must be new to these parts. In anticipation of people purchasing iPods and...
• Ye Olde Vintage Computer Gift Guide Got a nostalgic geek on your holiday shopping list? Check out this list of classic PCs and other tech paraphernalia, many available for $10 or less.
• Some Retailers Beat Apple's 'Black Friday' Deals Apple cut MacBook Pro and iMac prices for a day, but ongoing Apple bargains may be found elsewhere.