An update to OS X Lion has been made available by Apple today, bringing the software up a notch to OS X 10.7.3. Included in the update, among other things, is Safari 5.1.3 and additional language support. Other general house keeping fixes address issues like smart card OS X login, Microsoft Windows file sharing compatibility

Don’t look now, but the little hackintosh that could made it to the big time! Patrick Norton and the Tekzilla crew invited me to the Revision 3 studios earlier this week to talk about the $20 Mac. I had a blast guesting on the show, and got to watch the segment before mine about a

A few months back I decided to cut the cord. Tired of giving $150+ per month to Comcast, my wife and I decided we could live without cable TV for awhile, a decision made easier by the NBA lockout. As it turns out we didn’t cut the cord entirely, as the infinite wisdom of Comcast’s

If you’re the proud owner of an Apple MacBook Pro and your machine has been suffering from random shutdowns during “heavy workload,” then there’s a firmware update waiting just for you. The MacBook Pro SMC Firmware 1.5 update is available to download now via Software Update on your Mac, or from Apple’s website. The file

Could two of iOS 5′s cooler features be headed to OS X? Maybe, according to 9to5mac. The blog, citing the ole “sources familiar” line, says OS X may see AirPlay Mirroring and iMessage in a future update. One of the cooler features to hit iOS 5, at least for me, was iMessage. Similar to BBM

OS X Lion officially launched this morning, and our own Jon Rettinger has already downloaded the update and started checking it out – he started earlier with Mission Control, and is now taking a look at LaunchPad. LaunchPad gives you instant access to all of the apps you have downloaded onto your Mac by clicking

OS X Lion officially launched this morning, and our own Jon Rettinger has already downloaded the update and started checking it out – starting with Mission Control. Mission Control is a new feature in Lion that gives you a birds-eye view of everything running on your system. The feature allows you to essentially “zoom out”

With it looking like Mac OS X Lion will launch next week, it seemed like a good time to take a look back at the introduction of the OS itself, all the way back in Jan. 2000. It’s hard to believe that the same operating system has been around for 11 years now, but it’s

When the Apple Stores do an overnight shift, it usually means something in the stores is changing.  Sometimes it is as simple as changing displays, shifting all of their paper signs to iPad units or even just a training session.  But sometimes it also means new products, and with a new overnight appearing to be

Monsoon has been selling placeshifters for awhile now, first under the Hava brand name, and now called Vulkano. The entry-level Vulkano Flow is a $99 Slingbox fighter that offers up the core functionality of a placeshifter with a few bonuses and a few notable absences. For the uninitiated, a placeshifter is a piece of hardware that

Today at WWDC Apple showed off the newest version of its OS X operating system, OS X Lion, which is expected to hit stores in July. We already knew quite a bit about Lion from a previous announcement, and Apple has even had a product profile page up on its for the OS for some

Apple announced this morning that it will be holding its annual Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco beginning June 6th. The five-day event is where Apple traditionally announces the newest iPhone, and this year’s event is being teased as an opportunity to check out “the future of iOS and Mac OS X.” From Apple’s press

With the anticipation surrounding Mac OS X Lion steadily rising, many have been happy to find out that the next iteration of Apple’s popular operating system has been pushed out as a developer preview, meaning that it is on schedule for a summer release. Will it be able to live up to the hype, delivering

Did you recently upgrade from your 4+ year old Microsoft “Miscellaneous” or Logitech “Whatever” mouse for something advertised as the “weapon of choice” for gamers? I did. If you have, than you and I might have experienced the same thing. The very second you’ve plugged your optical or laser weapon (laser sounds cooler) into your

It’s been just about three weeks since the Mac app store was launched, Jan. 6 to be exact, to what was perceived by many as a lack of fanfare. Maybe it was due to the fact that many media and industry analysts were busy preparing for another frantic day at the International Consumers Electronics Show

OS Wars is Back! In this round, Matt puts the bundled applications head to head. Who will come out on top this time?

As most of you know by now, I am a Network Administrator by trade working with mostly Windows machines, yet at home I am a committed Mac user, so I get to see the good, bad and the ugly of both operating systems. I prefer Mac OSX, but I know a good feature when I

The Mac vs PC battle is back! In this round we are putting the two OS’s head to head to battle out Customization. This is a category that often comes up in the heated insult wars between angry geeks and it will be our first head to head of many.

It’s an argument nearly as old as the home computer itself. It breeds hatred between friends and can cause all out brawls in the IT room. Of course we are talking of the ongoing battle between Macs and PCs This disagreement has seemingly always been around, and it always seems to be changing. New innovations on

Yesterday I ran a piece on the history of OS X names, and I mentioned that I felt that Lion would be the end of Apple’s nearly ten-year-old operating system.  You just can’t really come up with a bigger cat name for another version (although I suggested on Twitter it might be”Mac OS 10.8 Mr.