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Quicken's history with the Mac is long and spotted. It's been ages since there was feature parity with the Windows version of Quicken. Quicken Essentials for Mac will continue that time-honored tradition. I've been using Quicken to manage money on my Mac since before OS X, way back in the last century. I stopped using Quicken a few years ago when it became obvious that Intuit didn't care much about Mac users. What about the new version? Full Story »

There is little question that Hollywood's movie makers love me. My wife and I have hundreds and hundreds of DVD movies in our collection. Some good. Some classic. Some bad. The only real problem with a DVD movie collection is portability. We travel quite a bit and dragging along DVD discs is not fun. What to do? We stuff the Mac full of movies and hit the road. It's easier said than done, but worth the effort. Full Story »

To hear my wife tell it, my Mac has a multiple personality disorder. How so? There are multiple ways to do the same thing. For example, how many ways can you store and manage video clips on your Mac? Including iMovie and iPhoto, there must be a dozen different ways, all with a few different features. We have video clips in iPhoto, which just seems wrong. Is there a better way to manage video clips on a Mac? Full Story »

How do you keep the apps on your Mac up to date? Easy question. Easy answers. Most of us wait for an alert from a software update utility. Apple has one in System Preferences. Both Adobe and Microsoft use a software update tool. What about all the rest of the apps, utilities, and games on your Mac? Here are the four top ways to keep your Mac's apps up to date. It's all point and click. Some just have more clicks than others. Full Story »

The web is full of attractive web sites which feature photo galleries and video galleries. One of the more popular tools to display both photos and videos is called Lightbox. If you want to create a web page with pop up photos and videos, you need to dig into the Javascript of Lightbox. It's not exactly point and click. Or, you can use a couple of Mac tools which make the whole gallery creation process a point and click affair. Full Story »

Your Mac is a powerful beast. Lurking under that shiny exterior of easy-to-use eye candy is full-fledged web server ready to love, honor, and obey. Your Mac's Unix underpinnings are well hidden from the average Mac user, but a few utilities can turn it into a power laden web site development machine with just a few clicks. Your Mac can become a local web server with all the technical bells and whistles. Full Story »

Who among the growing ranks of Mac users does not know about Microsoft Office? It's the business standard for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation, and email. For the most part, Office for Mac 2008 (the latest) gives Mac users reasonable compatibility with the Windows version of their Office-using counterparts. With Office for Mac 2011 just months away, here are 5 of the best reasons why Mac users should get it, use it, and love it. Full Story »

Change is an interesting phenomenon. Like it or not, change happens. Sometimes change can be overwhelming. Other times, change can seem excruciatingly, painfully, slow. The Mac brought massive change to the world of computers. The iPod brought change to how we listen to and manage music. The iPhone changed how we use cell phones. If this trend continues, Apple's iPad may signal another era of dramatic change. Should we begin to prepare for the day when our Macs and Windows PCs are no longer the center of our computing universe? Full Story »

I remember magazine ads for computers back in the early days of the PC. Invariably, one of the apps in many ads was a digital recipe, as if we'd lug an IBM PC into a kitchen and use a recipe app instead of a cookbook or index card. Times have changed. Whatever you want to do, Mac or iPhone, there's an app for that. My latest love is Vinoteka, a full on and fully fun wine cellar management app for your Mac. Full Story »

In case you haven't heard, Twitter is all the rage in social networking. Today. Tomorrow might bring something new, better, different, funner. But today it's Twitter. That means there's a gold rush to produce Twitter apps for Mac users, and there are plenty of contenders for the crown of easiest and funnest time waster ever (pardon me; is my Twitter bias showing through?). Move over Twitterrific and Tweetie. Here comes a Twitter app of a different color. Full Story »

How long have we had computers on the office desktop? 25 years? Why is it, in an age where every computer is connected through the internet to every other computer on the planet, that we still don't have a paperless office? Look around. Paper is everywhere. It's in the inbox. It's in file cabinets. It's probably in our human DNA to have paper. Apple's iPad may represent the future of media publishing, but Paperless is the affordable, digital way to reduce paper clutter. Full Story »

Sometimes I wonder if it's just the nature of human beings to pit one thing against another in a never ending competition of features, rankings, and comparison. Mac vs. Windows. Google vs. Yahoo! Apple's Aperture vs. Adobe's Photoshop Lightroom. If you're running out of room in iPhoto and need more professional tools, which is better? The new Aperture 3? Or, should you wait for Lightroom 3? Full Story »