Google responded to the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti earlier this week by working with satellite imagery company GeoEye to quickly make images of the destruction available in Google Earth and Google Maps. The images were taken at approximately 10:27 a.m. Eastern time on Wednesday, and c...

Google appears to be trying to boost its customer support for Nexus One customers, posting replies to many more queries on its online forum.

Google has come under fire since the launch of the Nexus One after hundreds of messages were posted with complaints or questions about the phone. Many cus...

Worldwide PC shipments soared during the fourth quarter, driven by historically low PC prices and an increased demand for laptops and netbooks, analyst firm IDC said Wednesday.

Shipments totaled 85.8 million units during the fourth quarter of 2009, growing 15.2 percent compared to the fourth q...

Each year, the nation's largest geekfest, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), is full of hype, overhype, and beyond the valley of the hype. Remember the Internet Refrigerator?

And each year the hype (and overhype, and b.t.v.o.t. hype) inevitably leads to disappointment: Vendors dangle many al...

Barnes & Noble is giving $100 gift certificates to Nook e-reader buyers who placed orders for the devices to be delivered before the holidays and now won't receive them until after the Christmas. The company had hoped that most preorders from November would be delivered by December 24, but says ...

Dragster 1.1.0 from Ambrosia Software is an elegant and easy-to-use drag-and-drop file transfer utility. Dragster resides in the Dock, so it's always available and never in the way. When you wish to transfer a file or folder, simply drag the item to the Dragster dock. A pop-up menu will appear wi...

My fellow guides and I were given a heads-up on a security article by Elinor Mills. In her writing for CNET, she asks 32 security experts from various groups which OS is more secure for consumers, Mac or Windows. It's an interesting read, especially for the security conscious among us, and maybe ...

Shelly Elmblad, About's Guide to Financial Software, recently blogged that the three-year wait for Intuit to update its Mac version of Quicken is finally over. What did the average Mac user get for waiting patiently for three years? According to Shelly's source, not much.

I haven't seen the late...

In early November of 2009, we asked you to tell us which version of OS X you're using. At the time, Snow Leopard was still relatively new, but from our poll results, it seems many of you took advantage of Apple's inexpensive upgrade price and installed Snow Leopard on your Mac.

The Poll results ...

Sung to the tune of... Wait, sorry, never mind. Haven't had my coffee yet. There. Now that I can smell the coffee brewing, let's get down to business. It's Reader's Choice Awards time, and while About: Mac readers have been voting here till the mice come home, Jennifer Kyrnin, our guide to Web De...

Apple is releasing the iPhone 3.0 update today which adds copy & paste functional...

"Are these the only ways to ...

If you work with a lot of documents (and perhaps a lot of users creating a lot of documents), whether digital or physical or both, chances are keeping the output organized is a challenge. That's where Nuance's PaperPort Professional 12 can help. While it doesn't exactly come cheap, it does come...

I love the fact that most new printers--even the cheap ones--come these days with built-in wireless. But if you bought a printer a year or two ago and didn't spend a fortune, you might not have the wireless option. You can turn your USB printer into a wireless printer with the help of a print ser...

The Canon Pixma MP990 offers a lot of great features such as auto duplexing in a rather large three-in-one printer (there's no fax). On the plus side it's very fast and photos in particular look fantastic. On the minus side, there's no ADF and the ink tends to saturate paper, leaving prints soggy...

The Brother MFC-495CW is a decent color all-in-one printer that I've seen online for around $100, making it a great value. It's not particularly fast, especially across a wireless network, but print quality--especially photos--is top notch. Plus, it has built-in wireless, which makes it handy as ...

It may sound like a simple process--measuring how much ink a single inkjet cartridge yields--but it's anything but. In fact it's the subject of lawsuits and marketing campaigns. How do you know what's what? Try this guide to the way that printer manufacturers measure the yield from their inkjet c...