With 170 print titles -- including the best-selling German tabloid "Bild" --, some 10,000 employees, and a revenue of 2.6 billion Euros in 2007, publishing house Axel Springer group is one of Germany's leading media companies. Thanks to their recent decision to go all-Macs, they will also be one of Apple's leading customers within a few years.

I hate the slim Mac aluminum keyboard. Unfortunately, Leopard seems to dislike my Microsoft keyboard. Do I have to buy a Logitech? Sigh.

After spending an entire day installing Windows updates on a friend's computer, I decided to have a bit of good geeky fun by trying out Avast anti-virus for Mac OS X. Whether Mac OS X users need anti-virus at the moment is still up in the air, but regardless of the reality of the situation, knowing our options cannot hurt....

I'm a wannabe podcaster that finally got around to to try to figure out how to create podcasts quickly and simply so it doesn't seem like work to me. I used a couple of freely available tools to create my first formal podcast. Read to on to see what worked for me...

If you wait long enough, things appear. Microsoft finally released a production version of RDC2.

As some of you may have deduced from my previous, rather negative entry about Google's SSL practices, I have spent a great deal of time investing their services as of late. Overall, and despite the aforementioned disappointment, I am extremely impressed by the quality of the offering. Most iPhone users using Google Calendar, however, will inevitably hit a roadblock when...

With a little help from their friends at SightSpeed, Dell have launched their own video chat service, aptly named: "Dell Video Chat." It's a nice touch that a Macintosh client for this service is available. But is there a compelling reason to use it?

Here's something I've missed since OS 9: a wee program that checks if your other programs are up to date. The App Update widget compares your programs against the listings at Apple, Version Tracker, and MacUpdate, and then offers download links to the programs that are outdated. It generated a few "false positives," but also reminded me of a...

In which I pass one some additional tips about past subjects, point out some interesting links, and say farewell for time being.

The cost of fixing bugs found early in development is much less than the cost of fixing bugs found late -- like during Q A or after a product ships.