Your source for indispensable Apple and Macintosh news, reviews, tips, and commentary since 1990.
Recent TidBITS Talk Discussions
Shopping for a new digital camera? In "Take Control of Buying a Digital Camera," pro photographer Larry Chen helps you pick out the right camera and accessories for your needs and budget. This book is loaded with tips on using your camera, pointers to the best review sites, and more!
Displaying results 1 to 20 of 86
Show all summaries Refine Search
Show summary
Recently I've heard the name Myanmar pronounced several different
ways on news broadcasts, and I was curious to know what the
officially correct pronunciation was...Read more...
Show summary
A new Mac data recovery utility is actually not Mac software at all, but a bootable Linux CD. That's an odd concept for most Mac users, but even excusing the unfamiliar exterior, is this software a useful problem-solving tool?Read more...
Show summary
MozyHome, an online backup service for Macs, has finally reached version 1.0 after more than a year of beta testing. The service offers unlimited online storage for only $4.95 per month.Read more...
Show summary
The Nabaztag is a plastic rabbit with motorized ears, blinking lights, and a Wi-Fi connection. Is it a silly piece of kitsch for people with too much money on their hands or a brilliant glimpse into the future of smart objects?Read more...
Show summary
A pair of articles I wrote for Macworld provide several AppleScripts that address common complaints in Word 2008.Read more...
Show summary
If you want more than one person to be able to access and edit iCal calendars, a collection of articles I wrote for Macworld may give you the guidance you need.Read more...
Show summary
Can your personality type affect your willingness to use certain modes of communication? In particular, do introverts have a harder time with technologies like instant messaging and Twitter than extroverts?Read more...
Show summary
An undocumented change discovered in the beta iPhone 2.0 firmware may indicate that Apple plans to turn the iPhone and iPod touch into portable backup destinations for Time Machine. Could this presage versions of these devices with dramatically more storage?Read more...
Show summary
An article I wrote for Macworld provides an overview of the ten leading Web browsers for Mac OS X.Read more...
Show summary
If you're unhappy with the way your Mac laptop handles sleep mode, you no longer need a command-line script to change it. This new preference pane makes it easy to tailor sleep settings to your liking.Read more...
Show summary
A new and improved version of Joe's Paste Plain Text AppleScript is shorter, more elegant, and less likely to result in the wrong font being used.Read more...
Show summary
A new maintenance utility looks fantastic and does a few things well, but has some serious bugs, missing features, and other problems.Read more...
Show summary
The latest version of the popular disk cloning utility is not only compatible with Leopard, it has some fancy tricks up its sleeve - such as making copies of Time Machine archives.Read more...
Show summary
I have a couple of new articles posted at Macworld.com about Time
Machine. Both have been generating lots of comments. If you're using
Time Machine, or thinking about it, check these out.
Is Time Machine all you need? looks at cases in which Time Machine
might be adequate as a sole backup mechanism and cases where you'll
want to supplement it with something else - or even skip it
altogether...Read more...
Show summary
Leopard's iChat Theater feature makes remote video presentations far easier and more flexible than before. But the experience doesn't always match up with the elegant effect of Apple's demos.Read more...
Show summary
In this week's discussions, readers weigh in on the changes in Mac OS X 10.5.2, discuss AT&T's recent announcements about progress on their 3G network and their new relationship with Starbucks, try to solve the problem of a recurring beachball icon, and more.Read more...
Show summary
This week's discussions include questions about PC equivalents to iWeb and BBEdit, speculation on the causes of undersea network cable breakages, the reliability of Western Digital MyBook drives, and more.Read more...
Show summary
Using iChat or Skype for video chats or remote presentations can be awkward in that you can't look into the camera and see the person on the other end at the same time. Until Apple's patented solution to this problem materializes, you can get partway there with a simple gadget called See Eye 2 Eye.Read more...
Show summary
Microsoft has changed its mind once again, and now permits Vista Home editions to be run as guest operating systems using virtualization software.Read more...
Show summary
Pasting plain text in Word 2008 turned out to be weirdly complicated. I found one way of doing it, though, that doesn't rely on third-party utilities, and there may be others.Read more...
start of results | previous 20 results | next 20 results | end of results
