So it's nice that Apple users have another choice: Safari. And, as luck would have it, Safari has an extremely efficient API for ad blocking built right in. The ad blocker wBlock uses this, and the ...

Homebrew is the best source for open source software yet, and makes installation easy. Here's what Homebrew is, how it works, ...

Before I bought a Mac mini in 2005 (the first step in my current Mac odyssey), I hadn’t used a Mac since 1996, when I owned several Macs and Windows machines. The five years at the center of the last ...

After updating Apple's Safari 4 beta to it's latest version, some users have experienced frequent crashes. Many of these crashes can be related to InputManagers or third-party plugins that are no ...

Logs, caches and plugins all serve a purpose on your Mac. The problem is that they tend to hang around long after they stop being useful. If you want to know how to clean Mac storage and free up space ...

Parallels is one of those little companies that could make some big companies very nervous. The Renton, Wash.-based software maker is launching its Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac today. The software ...

At support software company Bomgar, executives admit their products didn’t support Macs very well just a few years ago. But that’s been changing over the last 12 months, and last week Bomgar released ...

We’ve come an incredibly long way from the initial System and Finder, but a Mac user plucked from 1984 and plopped down in front of a modern Mac wouldn’t find it that foreign. We still have icons, ...