There are a lot of options out there for the instant messaging crowd. There are probably three multi-protocol clients available for every one single-protocol (standalone) client. There are two related multi-protocol clients, that work pretty much across the board on the three major flavors of operating systems, that ...

The school that I work at has a program where every traditional undergraduate student is "given" a laptop (the cost of the computer is baked into their tuition). Following (or leading) industry trends, we have had a growing number of new students choosing Macs rather than Windows-based computers. ...

If you have heard about Parallels for running a virtualized OS within Mac OS X (Intel) chances are you have heard about VMWare Fusion.  Parallels has a feature called Coherence that pulls the virtualized applications out of the "boxed in" interface, and allows them to "mingle" with the OS X ...

If you are a Mac user, and also use the Cisco VPN client to connect to your corporate (or any other) network, have I got a treat for you. The product name is Shimo, and your VPN experience just became truly Mac-like. The initial reason for the development of Shimo ...

I've seen some chatter about the Mac utility, Paparazzi, that captures the entire length of a webpage into an image. Great product, but limited to those of us who have chosen to "walk in the light" of Mac OS X. :-D I was looking for something similar, but ...

Mac OS X only -- that I know of, any word to the contrary is welcome. I was doing some Wordpress development this weekend while listening to my team on MLB Gameday Audio. While I attempted to Cmd-Tab to another application I miskeyed and hit Cmd-` (` is right above ...

In the little rant I gave on the baked-in Windows screenshot capabilities the other day I mentioned the simplicity of the baked-in Mac screenshot process. Like Windows there are multiple keystrokes to achieve the various types of screenshots. Cmd-Shift-3 will capture the entire screen. Cmd-Shift-4 then click-n-drag will capture a specific ...

Most people in the tech industry are familiar with the accronym LAMP (if not, follow that link). MAMP is a variation on LAMP, but for Mac. I need to preface this post with the advice that the product I'm about to show is not for "production" type environments. The ...

Frank Ohlhorst just asked if the penguin is listening. I haven't thought much about Linux since I made my home computer switch to Mac about a year ago, but he poses some very good ideas. The Mac guy, the PC guy and a penguin are all standing around having a ...

A coworker sent me a link today, and my immediate thought was of Minority Report. Watch this video and you will understand. Here's a YouTube video of Jeff Han, one of the developers of this new multi-touch screen technology, given at the 2006 TED conference. On a ...