Mozilla today released Firefox 3.5, the newest version of its open source web browser. Available for Mac, Linux, and Windows, this latest version uses an entirely new rendering engine that ... Read More

Steve Jobs officially returned to the Apple campus in Cupertino today, according to Bloomberg. Steve will initially divide his time between working on campus and working from home, but he ... Read More

Cocktail was one of the original OS X utilities that let users gain access to some of the Mac’s hidden capabilities. It has since evolved into a general-purpose utility that ... Read More

PowerVR is the chipset used in iPods and iPhones to drive the graphics display. Designed and manufactured by British company Imagination Technologies, the PowerVR series of chips offers programmers some ... Read More

We don’t normally cover Windows issues here at About: Macs, but when I came across the planned pricing for the various versions of Windows 7, my jaw dropped. To put this ... Read More

On Tuesday, Methodist University Hospital issued a press release confirming that Steve Jobs had successfully undergone a liver transplant at the hospital’s transplant institute. Steve gave permission for the press ... Read More

Bankruptcy may not be all it’s cracked up to be, at least for Psystar, the Mac clone maker that has been fighting off Apple’s legal claims of copyright infringement. Psystar filed ... Read More

A little over a week ago, Saturday June 13th to be exact, I reported on a performance bottleneck in the new 13-inch MacBook Pro. According to many owners of the ... Read More

The iPhone 3G S had a banner opening weekend, with sales figures that easily matched the original iPhone 3G’s first weekend. Between pre-orders that were picked up or delivered before ... Read More

ArtRage from Ambient Design is a drawing program that mimics the way an artist’s tools work in the real world. ArtRage lets you work with oils, pencils, chalk, crayon, markers, ... Read More

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple CEO Steve Jobs underwent a liver transplant sometime in April, at an undisclosed hospital in Tennessee. Courtesy of Apple Steve is said to have ... Read More

Michael J. Copps, the current acting chairman of the FCC (Federal Communications Commission), outlined his concerns about exclusive handset agreements in a speech presented at the annual Broadband Policy Summit ... Read More

Apple has suspended pre-orders for the iPhone 3G S that will be delivered to stores tomorrow. Up until yesterday, you could pre-order an iPhone 3G S for pickup tomorrow at ... Read More

Apple will unleash its latest big cat, Snow Leopard, sometime in September 2009. While Snow Leopard can’t boast as many improvements as the original Leopard, it offers some fundamental changes ... Read More

Apple has begun shipping the new iPhone 3G S. Some individuals who pre-ordered the new iPhone have already received processing or shipping notification . Expected delivery for the first wave ... Read More

Back in May I mentioned that Landon Fuller discovered that Apple’s version of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) contained a bug that allowed a Java applet to execute arbitrary code. ... Read More

According to some owners of the new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro, the SATA channel used in the notebook only sports the slower 1.5 Gbps interface, not the faster 3 ... Read More

Things is a task manager for the Mac. More to the point, it’s a task manager for you. In my professional career I’ve had the misfortune to work with project ... Read More

If you have a PowerPC-based Mac, you’ve probably already heard the bad news that it won’t be able to run Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6). That’s not to say your ... Read More

Malicious software hiding out as video codex is nothing new, but there is a new variant in town. Going by several names, OSX/JahLav-C has been seen at various web sites, ... Read More

While looking through the material at Apple’s web site about the upcoming Snow Leopard, I was surprised to find that two of the new features will only be available for ... Read More

As part of the WWDC keynote, Apple announced that Safari 4 has gone gold and been released for OS X 10.4 (Tiger), OS X 10.5 (Leopard), Windows XP, and Windows ... Read More

Apple did an amazing thing at the WWDC 2009 keynote address, something that no rumormonger or soothsayer predicted. It dismantled one of the four legs that hold up the Mac ... Read More

Apple today took the wraps off the newest member of the iPhone family, the iPhone 3GS. While largely expected, the 3GS doesn’t bring some of the radical changes envisioned in ... Read More

At the WWDC keynote address, Apple took time to show some of the new features in the iPhone 3.0 software. Apple listened to its developers and users, and added many ... Read More

Today Apple previewed Snow Leopard, the next version of the OS X operating system. Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6) will be available in September, although no specific date was given. Snow ... Read More

During the WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) today, Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, revealed updates to the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air line of Apple ... Read More

Adium is a messaging client for the Mac that works with many popular IM services. Most avid users of messaging systems have friends and colleagues scattered across multiple messaging systems. ... Read More

According to sources at the Wall Street Journal, Steve Jobs will be making his return as CEO of Apple later this month. Steve has been on medical leave since last ... Read More

With the WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) taking center stage next week (June 8-12), it’s time to take our best guess at what the two most likely new products ... Read More

Adam Jackson took some photos of the preparation going on at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco for the World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2009. Courtesy of Apple Of particular interest ... Read More

Apple’s announcement today about changes to its One to One program left me scratching my head, wondering what would compel Apple to reduce access to this program. Courtesy of Apple One to ... Read More

Apple has released QuickTime 7.6.2, which addresses a host of known security issues with QuickTime. Available for OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and OS X 10.4 (Tiger), as well as Windows ... Read More

WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) 2009 kicks off next Monday, June 8. Steve Jobs usually provides the keynote address for the WWDC, but he is still on health-related leave from ... Read More