Although the official launch is still almost two weeks away, Apple has activated .Me email accounts for current .Mac users. For example, if your .Mac email address is myusername@mac.com, you ... Read More

WALL-E, the latest animation from Disney/Pixar, opened to rave reviews, which is by no means unusual for Pixar. It’s also not unusual to find evidence of Apple’s influence in a ... Read More

The developers’ seed (a pre-release version of an application that developers can test) of iTunes 7.7 contains hints about a free application that Apple will supply to iPhone and iPod ... Read More

Adobe has just released version 9 of Acrobat, which is widely used for the creation of PDF (Portable Document Format) documents. The most notable new feature in Acrobat 9 is ... Read More

A few days ago, I mentioned that a new Trojan AppleScript is being delivered via LimeWire and iChat. A Focus on Macs reader wondered what LimeWire is, and I thought ... Read More

Microsoft has released version 12.1.1 of Office 2008 for Mac. This latest update primarily addresses stability and performance issues. The vexing problem of Office unexpectedly quitting when you double-click an ... Read More

Any day now, OS X 10.5.4 should be making an appearance in Software Update. This minor revision to Leopard is believed to be required for MobileMe, the rebranded and enhanced ... Read More

The latest iPhone has more intrigue than a spy novel. The most recent mystery is: How much does the iPhone 3G really cost? Yair Reiner, an analyst with Oppenheimer, notes ... Read More

Two security firms, SecureMac and Intego, have separately issued security warnings for OS X Tiger and OS X Leopard. Both operating systems can be affected by a Trojan AppleScript delivered ... Read More

It didn’t take long for problems to appear with the newest incarnation of Firefox. Firefox 3.0 is currently unable to display photo galleries created with Apple iWeb 2.0 or later. Firefox ... Read More

Yesterday Mozilla, creator of the Firefox web browser, attempted to get into the Guinness Book of World Records by having the most downloads of an application in a single day. ... Read More

The Mac community is constantly growing, with people moving from Windows to Macs, as well as people who are using or buying a computer for the first time. No matter ... Read More

Apple stopped selling standalone versions of its iSight webcam back in 2006. While the iSight name lived on in webcams that Apple built into the displays of iMacs and MacBooks, ... Read More

AMD made it official today: The ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac & PC Edition is now available. That’s a long name for a graphics card, but the card is long ... Read More

Parallels has released yet another update to Parallels Desktop, its virtual machine software for running Windows and other operating systems on Intel-based Macs. You may remember from last week’s post ... Read More

The iPod line was, until the announcement of the iPhone 3G, pretty straightforward. You had the iPod shuffle and the iPod nano as flash-based, low-end players; the iPod classic for ... Read More

Apple previewed Snow Leopard, the next version of OS X, at the WWDC this week. As I reported earlier, the goal with Snow Leopard is to create a faster, extremely ... Read More

Steve Jobs saved the best for last at WWDC: the new iPhone. The iPhone has been a tremendous success, but even successful products have room for improvement. Apple identified five challenges ... Read More

“Exchange for the rest of us.” That’s how Phil Schiller began his description of what the new MobileMe service will be. Everything on your Mac, PC, and iPhone can remain ... Read More

New iPhone applications demonstrated at WWDC include Super Monkey Ball, from Sega, and Auctions, from eBay. Super Monkey Ball features over 100 levels of play, and will be available for ... Read More

Today marks the opening of the 2008 Worldwide Developers Conference. As expected, Apple started the day by hanging a ‘We’ll be back soon’ shingle on the Apple Store. The Apple Store ... Read More

I’ve been using OS X 10.5.3 since it was made available last week. In that time, the only problem I’ve come across is a video issue when using Parallels virtualization ... Read More

Parallels has released a new build of Parallels Desktop 3.0, Build 5604, in order to correct a video problem that surfaced when using Parallels with OS X 10.5.3. The video problem ... Read More

What’s in a name? Sometimes, a lot. Ars Technica reports that OS X 10.6 will be code-named Snow Leopard. In addition to being the first two-word cat name, Snow Leopard ... Read More

Apple has kicked off its annual back-to-school incentive. Educational customers (students, faculty, or educational institute staff members) who purchase a Mac and an iPod Touch or an iPod Nano on ... Read More

As I’ve mentioned in the past, Adobe makes some pretty interesting beta products available to the general public. This week, I’m giving Adobe Buzzword a workout, to see how well ... Read More