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• Remove Unwanted Text Shadows in IWork Programs If you use the iWork applications, or other programs that use their own font styling features and the system-wide Fonts panel, here's a little potential "gotcha"...
• Four Essential PDF Tips for Snow Leopard PDF files are practical and easy to work with, not only because they retain the layout of your documents, but also because users on any platform can view them...
• Remove Windows 7 from a Dual Boot Dale Bevan set up a dual boot with Windows 7, and now wants to remove the new OS and stick with the old one
• 7 Secret Features in Windows 7 From streaming Netflix movies in Windows Media Center to eye candy desktop themes to a calculator that does a lot more than arithmetic, here's a showcase of cool but unappreciated Windows 7 features.
• Move Cursor While Paging Through Files Here's a quick Friday tip for those who like to navigate open documents via the keyboard. In many OS X applications, including TextEdit, pressing Page Up and...
• Apple Issues Mail Services Update for Snow Leopard Servers If you use the server edition of Snow Leopard, you will want to take note of a couple of updates recently issued by Apple. The first one is a 21MB patch that...
• Enable Better Font Smoothing on Some LCD Displays One of the unwelcome changes in Snow Leopard, at least for myself and others who use certain third-party LCD displays, was the gross simplification of the font...
• Google Dashboard Shows Android Fragmentation Google released a snapshot that shows the percentages of phones running the different versions of Android software.
• Apple Granted Permanent Injunction Against Psystar The age of Psystar may be drawing to a close at last. On Tuesday, Apple snagged a permanent injunction against the clone-maker from U.S. District Court Judge...
• Another Way to Delete the Trash in Snow Leopard Her's a very simple but potentially useful Snow Leopard tip. As you probably know, you can set up the Finder (in both 10.5 and 10.6) to securely empty the trash...
• Free Must-Have Tools, Bargain-Basement Backup FixWin lets you fix many Windows glitches; Paint.NET gives you pro-quality image editing. Plus, Carbonite has a limited-time offer.
• Microsoft Exec on Google, Blue Screen of Death Chris Capossela's career is a throwback, just like Dom's, the Italian restaurant in Boston's North End his parents ran for 45 years. Capossela has been at...
• Creating Diacritics Internationalist Chris Rattan wonders how to create non-English characters. He writes:
• Google Releases Experimental Phone to Employees Google has given experimental mobile phones to some employees.
• Study: More Than 50 Android Phones to Ship in 2010 UPDATE: The trickle of Android-based smartphones seen this year will turn into an avalanche in 2010. More than 50 devices will ship next year, CCS Insight said.
• Google's Chrome OS Aims to Speed Up Netbooks Look for Google’s lightweight, browser-based operating system to debut on mobile systems sometime in 2010.
• Five Web-Centric Alternatives to Google Chrome OS Google Chrome OS isn't the first and only Web-centric OS out there. We look at five cloud OS alternatives.
• Access Old-style Dock Contextual Menus in Snow Leopard One of Snow Leopard's new features is Dock Exposé--clicking and holding on an icon in the Dock will enter Exposé's Application mode for that application...
• The Top 10 Technology Stories of 2009 The Great Recession cast a shadow on all sectors of the economy in 2009. IT fared better than most, however, and the slump did not curb the dynamic nature of the...
• Chrome Browser Arrives for Mac Google has shipped a prerelease version of its browser for Linux and OS X, but work remains.
• Troubleshooting Help: Solve PC Problems Without Losing It Is your technology refusing to cooperate? Don't get mad, get methodical; these tips will show you how.
• Microsoft Yanks $150 Windows 7 Family Pack Deal Microsoft has ended its special offer, which let buyers upgrade as many as three PCs from Windows XP or Vista to Windows 7 Home Premium.
• The Mac Basics Superguide Updated for Snow Leopard The readers of Macworld are amazingly diverse. Among our audience are some incredibly tech-savvy folks, and we're glad to have them. There are also some people...
• First Look: Google's Chrome Operating System we've downloaded an early build of Google's Chrome OS--just released to the open source community-- to show you how it works so far.
• Diet Chromium Offers Slimmed Down Chrome OS A new smaller-sized build of the Chromium operating system is now available courtesy of a UK student.