The increasingly attractive prices for processor card and RAM upgrades makes the prospect of breathing new life into a legacy machine seem enticing

if you have an older PCI Mac that doesn't support USB or FireWire connectivity, you can easily upgrade to either or both by adding a relatively expensive PCI card or cards

I had a problem: after setting up my beloved 8600 in an office away from home, there was only the iBook for both my wife and I to use for email and other online activities. But each of us had different email address books. What to do?

The Calculator, which resides in the Apple Menu, is one of the oldest components of the Mac operating system, having changed little from the early days of the Mac OS in 1984

You've got your email program all setup, so how do you use it? In this article, we'll look at some of the functions of an email program and how to use them to full advantage.

Many new Mac users, and even some veterans never fully utilize some of the advanced capabilities of the Mac OS Finder.

MacsBug can get you out of crashes and screen lockups more gracefully so you can save work and restart your Mac in an orderly fashion

How to manage and customize the appearance of icons on your Mac OS Desktop

If your programs are acting flaky or crashing a lot, you may need to assign them more memory

The Postal Dude spent five unforgettable days raging through the streets of Paradise, Arizona during the now-legendary POSTAL 2 series in both the original entry and the multi-player add-on, Share the Pain. Running With Scissors now cuts loose the next chapter in his bitter, disaffected saga—Apocalypse Weekend—which details the Dude's thermonuclear activities during the 48 hours following his original week-long rampage. A single-player expansion pack, Apocalypse Weekend offers over 20 new areas of Paradise to decimate, 10 original missions to execute with extreme prejudice and an array of "cutting edge" weaponry that would make Kill Bill's Bride salivate.

If you begin having a lot of crashes, especially after installing a new system version upgrade or a new software application version, (third-party software now frequently installs System extensions), extension conflicts may be to blame

If you don't need the powerful but often unused functions available in full-fledged word processors, give text editors a look