Last week’s poll was all about your computers’ age. We asked you to tell us how old your current computer is, and we got some interesting results. Before you read on, what do YOU think was the most popular answer? You might be surprised! Out of 1,158...

Eager as always to compete in the realm of digital content, Amazon today opened a Mac Download Store that will compete with the Mac App Store. Like Apple’s solution, this new storefront streamlines the process of downloading and installing software so...

A bogus version of the MacDefender antivirus application has recently fooled many Apple Mac OSX users into downloading and installing the malware on their computers. The fake antivirus, called MAC Defender, specifically targets Mac users using the Safari...

The idea behind tilt-shift is to make your photographs of real life-sized objects look like photographs of models. No, not supermodels. That’s a whole different subject. TitlShiftmaker makes this easy, and the results are great. You can buy lenses for...

Application launchers are very useful and can save you a lot of time. In their most basic form, they provide you access to your frequently used files and programs. The more advanced launchers support running of different scripts on your computer to...

Portable Apps for Windows and Mac have been around for a long time, but are less common in the Linux world. Due to the complexity of Linux dependencies, and the different way different distributions locate these dependencies, the portable Linux...

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Chromium OS (or Chrome OS) is a new breed of open-source operating system, and like much of Google’s product suite is completely free of charge. The Google Chromium OS relies on the web for all but the bare-bones, and aims to bring the whole internet to...

If you are like most modern people, you’d have your data scattered across multiple devices and places: computers, cell phones, online accounts, USB drives, and maybe even gaming devices. Synchronizing everything would be a mundane task and nobody...

In this era of highly competitive markets, we can spot two general trends among software makers to stay afloat in the sea of similar applications; focusing on only one feature and polishing it well, or throwing in as many features as they can. The latter...