Mac OS X (including iPhone version) takes more than 10 percent of the OS market for the second straight month, with desktop OS X closing on 10 percent in its own right

Today is the second Monday in October, Thanksgiving Day in Canada, and Columbus Day in (most of) the U.S

Even though my favorite Apple laptop is named for one, I'm not sure I would have much interest in a computer I could take to the beach

Will Mygazines revolutionize the magazine business the way Napster and P2P did the music business?

I didn't set out to become the Cal Ripken of Mac Web news editors.....

In one very important respect, the never-ending controversy over whether Macs are more expensive than PCs is futile, and that would be that it's an Apples and, well, PCs, comparison. Only Macs can (legally) run the Mac OS, and that is huge, because that is the main event with Macs for many of us, who would, and indeed have in the past, pay a substantial price premium - if not happily, at least resignedly - in order to benefit from the manifold superiorities of the Mac OS. As long as Apple won't license the Mac OS, the argument is moot as far as we're concerned

In which Charles Moore checks out the much-ballyhooed new startup search engine and finds it underwhelming

I've been writing a lot about browsers here lately, what with the recent released of the Firefox 3 and Opera 9.50 finals and a tsunami of iCab 4.1.1 betas. It's truly the best of times for Mac users in the browser department. Here's an update of my impressions of the current releases of four browser apps

Firefox wants you to help set the Guinness world record for Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours. Will you take the pledge?Guinness world record for Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours

DealExtreme offers a battery replacement kit for iPhone for the extremely friendly price of $7.29, free shipping included. With Apple charging in the neighborhood of $90 to replace iPod batteries (plus you have yo send your 'Phone in for the transplant), less than eight bucks sounds like like quite a bargain, but the catch is of course that the iPhone is not designed to be user-serviceable

Mac OS up substantially and the Safari browser gains more ground as well

Is age or attitude the central contributing factor in the widening rift between computer users and the still sizable minority of holdouts?