Call it mental illness, call it human nature, call it instinct: human beings have an innate desire to hoard things. Sometimes, that hoarding impulse gets out of control, while other times this desire takes the form of a perfect in...
Windows users are well versed in the art of malware — viruses, trojans, randsomware, etc. Mac users? Not so much. However, Mac users have recently been the target of a particularly annoying piece of malware or ‘ransomw...
There are some app “genres” that boggle my mind, some categories where it seems like one app is just as good as any other in the same family. On some level, aren’t all battery monitoring apps created equal? While...
Macs do, in fact, get viruses and this photo proves it.
I love being able to have a timer running in the background while I’m working on my Mac. It’s a great way to keep an eye on when I need to take dinner out of the oven, or use as a Pomodoro timer during one of my ill-ad...
From Grumpy Cat to First World Problems, Futurama’s “Not Sure If” to Condescending Wonka, people love memes. They’re kind of the perfect form of comedy: simple to digest, endlessly variable, and even capabl...
Reading of "File System" shows contents of 140 TB size. On a hard drive.
My guess is the Apple Store can't repair that.
When I was a kid, my parents were big into catalogue shopping. Hammacher Schlemmer, L.L. Bean, Sharper Image…my little fingers would pore over the pages of these catalogues each month, amazed by the sheer variety of cool stu...
Some notebook vendors are worried that the recent trademark filing by Apple to the US Patent and Trademark Office will give the company advantages over other companies’ laptops. Said patent application is about a memory card...
Scores of articles about multitasking have been written over the past few years. In many cases, it seems like researchers are trying to debunk the myth of multitasking. One recent article argues that those people who label themsel...
I’ll be the first to admit that most hidden object games are annoying. One of the only ones I liked in recent memory was Reincarnations: Uncover the Past, and that was because the hidden object hunt made sense in the game...
I’m kind of a messy person. When I bake, I get flour all over myself and all over the kitchen. In my office, I tend to favor what my mother jokingly refers to as a “vertical filing system.” That’s just a ni...
Finding the right font can make all the difference between a bad website and a good one (or between one that’s merely good and one that’s truly great.) There are tons of resources out there for free fonts, and sorting ...
I’m a sucker for a freebie. Free apps, free games, free trials: I’ll snap ’em all up without a second thought. But let’s be honest: if you’re anything like me, the retention rate for free apps and gam...
