The long-awaited redesigned MacBook arrives with a metal enclosure, faster graphics, and a backlit LED screen. It can also drive larger monitors than ever before, but on the downside, it lacks FireWire.
Apple's new 24-inch Cinema Display offers LED backlighting, an iSight camera, microphone, speakers, and, most notably, a cable with three connectors that provide USB, audio/video, and power connectivity to the new models in the MacBook family.
An inexplicable error took us offline for a few hours Tuesday. We're back, mystified, and working to figure out what happened. How can a previously reliable system and two backups all fail?
AOL, left for dead, releases a test version of an updated AOL Instant Messenger with tabbed sessions, animated icons, wallpaper, and custom emoticon sets.
The venerable compression utility StuffIt Deluxe 2009 adds Leopard-specific functionality, integration with MobileMe, and smart handling of duplicates in archives.
After four months of beta testing, VMware has released version 2.0 of Fusion, the company's software for running Windows, Linux, and other operating systems on an Intel-based Mac. The new version catches up to, and in some ways surpasses, the feature list of Parallels Desktop.
With iTunes 8, Apple has at long last enabled us to set per-podcast download and retention settings, rather than treat all podcasts the same.
Google has quietly released Gears support for Safari, making it possible to use Google Docs even when you're not connected to the Internet. Learn how to install, configure, and use Google Gears with Safari.
Bare Bones Software has tweaked and polished the venerable BBEdit text editor, adding productivity-enhancing features for Web developers, programmers, sysadmins, and writers alike.
After checking out some dedicated programs, Charles Maurer settles on FileMaker's new list manager Bento for managing his wine cellar.
Microsoft has released updates for Office 2004 and Office 2008, providing bug fixes and other improvements, as well as important patches for vulnerabilities in the software. Meantime, the company is offering a discount price on Office 2008 when purchased with a Mac, through 08-Sep-08.
Isn't it interesting that of the top paid and free apps for the iPhone and iPod touch, more than two-thirds of them are games or other forms of entertainment? But never fear, if you want your iPhone or iPod touch to make your real life easier, a few actually useful apps are available.
Garmin's basic nuvi 255W GPS pares back inessential features to offer an inexpensive GPS that provides excellent navigational capabilities without confusing extras.
VMware has released the second public beta of VMware Fusion 2, adding features to the Unity Mac-Windows integration technology, virtual machine snapshots, better video performance, support for Leopard Server, and more.
ProVUE's Panorama database is already insanely fast (because all the data is kept in memory), easy to use (because you can always see all your data in a grid), and incredibly powerful (because it basically lets you wrap a GUI application around your data). So where can it go from here? Database sharing over the Internet, that's where!