Ada and Mac puzzle time We had some puzzles in the basement–ones that we had picked up for my mom and Curt, but they left them here because they were, I’m not exaggerating, really hard. Mac heard that his dad and Tammy liked to do puzzles, so he took them over there. One day he went over...

Our old 700 MHz iBook G3 passed away quietly on Saturday evening. My wife had used it to check her email that morning, and all had seemed well, but when she tried to wake it for a late-night check just before retiring, it refused to respond. Over the next several hours I tried every method of resusc...

As my last foray into Apple rumour land states: I've been "predicting" a Mac Tablet for 4 years now. Today, it would be more like a super iPhone or iPod Touch, with a 7" screen. Now Om has been reading the tea leaves and finally thinks that a Mac Tablet / Netbook / Super iPhone is som...

Can anyone help me pick a new hard drive for my first generation MacBook? I have a first generation Intel MacBook, the 1.83 GhZ white model. It has an 80GB hard drive. These are not enough gigabytes, I'd like more (250GB/500GB/1TB) I'm comfortable cloning my existing drive and popping a new drive in...

Windows/Mac/Linux (All platforms): The free, multi-platform iTunes assaulter (if not quite killer) Songbird busts out great improvements for a 1.1 version, including a one-click album art grabber, performance improvements, and loads o' little tweaks. The killer new feature is a single menu option, u...

Nach Commercial Times und Dow Jones Newswires fährt nun sogar Reuters eine eigene Quelle auf, die Apples 10"-Touchscreen-Bestellung bei Wintek "bestätigt". Die Auslieferung des 10-Zoll-Touchscreens ist auch dieser Information nach für das dritte Quartal 2009 gedacht, allerdings wusste die Quelle ...

So, funny story. My Macbook Pro? My solid little monster of a laptop that could munch through RAWs like they were candy and handle WoW like a beast? Might be dead. I'm hoping it's a video card type problem and not the logic board like I fear. Oh yeah, I'm having fun. Now have a desktop though. Vista...

Gnomie Luke Scott writes: Hey Chris, I have been planning on getting a Mac Pro for a while, and since my last Mac purchase with the first-gen Intel MacBook, I’ve been keeping an eye on MacRumors’ “when to buy” page and other news to make sure that any future Apple purchases d...

If you’ve just got yourself a new Mac and totally clueless what to install, this article is for you. If you are looking for alternatives for some applications you are currently using in your Mac, the following list might come in handy too. This week, we’d like to showcase you a list of u...

Kevin was all over the rumors out of Asia yesterday that Apple is ready to produce a netbook this year.  The unconfirmed rumors have Apple getting a bunch of 10-inch touch-screens for inclusion on their netbook, even though they have stated emphatically they don’t do netbooks. The rumors have...