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• 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.
• The State of Windows 7 Satisfaction Early adopters report they're mostly happy -- and that goes for Vista users even more than XP users.
• Acer: We'll Be First to Launch a Chrome OS Netbook Company is confident its Google Chrome-based netbook will hit the market in the second half of 2010.
• 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.
• Release a Minimized Window Using Application Switcher There are a few ways to release a minimized window from the Dock. You can click on the minimized window in the Dock, of course, or you can Control-click on the...