Something sort of hit me in the head while reading the New York Times as Bob Marley played into my earphones: I have no visual or performance signs that a song is playing other than the music entering my head. It just works.

Under my desk is a PowerMac G4 with a whopping 512MB of RAM. When I acquired the old boy, it was running Tiger, had been used and abused and desktop support had put it out to pasture. But I knew all it needed was some TLC.

When I write about Apple, I do my best to lay out some historical data and discuss where my experience came from as it helps put things in perspective for whatever I'm about to rant or rave about. Mactracker helps me do that.

One of the first disappointments a brand new iPad owner often faces is the fact they simply can't use their magic new toy right out of the box. To setup an iOS device, you need a computer running a compatible version of iTunes. But why?

With the newly released Safari 5.0.1, extensions have now gone public. Here's a list of seven extensions you should install right away. Have you been playing around with Safari extensions? What are your favorites so far?

An ongoing digital strategy by the European Union (EU) could force Apple into allowing Adobe's Flash to run on the iPhone. The incomplete plans outlined by the EU, known as the Digital Agenda, aim to redefine how antitrust rules are practiced.

Amazon has announced a new Kindle. The new device is pretty awesome, both in features and price. It's important that we declare both devices as winners and set some things straight for anyone calling iPad a Kindle killer or the other way around.

I decided to upgrade one of my iPhone 3G's to iOS 4 and leave the other one on iPhone SDK 3.1.3 after purchasing two new iPhone 4's. 1.3. I followed some of my own advice and turned off many of the features.

For Mac users who want to access media with their PlayStation 3, life just got a little easier. A new program called Playback by Yazsoft facilitates UPnP via the PS3.

A handful of the hottest smartphones are at risk of losing fizzle due to supply issues, and the overall problem is likely to get worse, not better. Ashok Kumar agrees, telling me that consumer technology products are gaining complexity faster than so...

I understand Apple withholding of cool features like FaceTime and bluetooth multitouch trackpads to fuel demand and excite Mac users every few weeks with a new toy, but display technologies are universally exactly the same. So where is a 30" LED Cine...

When I was tasked to write a roundup of iPad blogging apps, I figured this would be the usual pros and cons of four or five apps. Instead, I found only two, one of which is specific to WordPress. Neither app made me all that happy.

Apple today announced the release of Safari 5.0.1. When Safari 5 was released in June, it included support for extensions so that developers could start building them, but without access to the Extensions Gallery, users had no easy way to find and in...

Apple's hatred of buttons and love of touch that began as early as 2003 with the 3rd generation iPod and continued with iPhone, iPad and multitouch trackpads should have clued us in that the mouse wouldn't be here forever.

Apple updated its iMac and Mac Pro desktop line today and now technical specifications of these two machines are finally in line with what you can get from their Windows-running counterparts. Let's take a look at these machines side-by-side for anyon...

At a cost of $29, which includes six reusable AA batteries, this little white charger offers you the chance to power all of your wireless desktop accessories with a clean conscience knowleding you're doing your part to help the environment.

The iMac lineup was updated this morning along with the Mac Pro and the new 27" LED Cinema Display. The iMac now sports faster processors, memory, and graphics chips across the line and some new options like SSD drives that make them even faster.

The Mac Pro was the product on Apple's line that most needed a refresh, and it's finally here. It features the latest quad-core and 6-core Intel Xeon processors, giving you up to 12 cores and offering 50 percent greater performance over its aging pre...

The ZumoDrive folks are applying the cloud storage concept to your home computer so you can stream media files right to an Apple iPad or iPhone using ZumoCast. Adaptive transcoding offers optimal playback quality and you can download files for offlin...

The Apple Store went down this morning. When it came back up, what should we find but a new 27-inch Cinema Display? The last time Apple refreshed the Cinema Display was 2008 when it unveiled the 24-inch LED model, so it's been a long time coming.