Once past the fairly painless installation of the Windows 7 beta, Mac users will be struck with deja vu. This new version of Windows looks more like Mac OS X than any previous edition ever offered by ...

The dock at the base of the Mac screen lists applications, much like the Windows taskbar. The bar is transparent, and if your screen uses distracting wallpaper, such as a wordy company logo, you may ...

When a new OS upgrade costs $29, you can be forgiven for thinking of it as a service pack. Such may appear to be the case with Mac OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard, which Apple has positioned as an ...

There are hundreds of task managers for the Mac out there. I’ve used many of them, and I’ve faced a bunch of the more popular apps against each other. Here are my finalists, notable mentions — and at ...