The Fuse Antibacterial Screen Guard combines antibacterial properties of microscopic silver particles it’s impregnated with and physical screen protection against dirt and abrasion. I liked this product even more than I had expected to

Apple today updated the Mac mini with next generation Intel Core processors, new discrete graphics, high-speed Thunderbolt I/O technology and OS X Lion

Apple today updated the MacBook Air with next generation processors, high-speed Thunderbolt I/O technology, a backlit keyboard and Mac OS X Lion

Download from the Mac App Store for $29.99; requires OS X 10.6.6 or later to install; requires an Intel-based Mac with a Core 2 Duo, i3, i5, i7 or Xeon processor and 2GB of RAM; Lion will be available on a USB thumb drive through the Apple Store ( http://www.apple.com ) for $69 (US) in August

iPhone åSales Grow 142 Percent; iPad Sales Grow 183 Percent

Apple has released a variety of Mac OS X v10.6.8 updates, and a security update for OS 10.5 Leopard. The Version 10.6.8 Update is widely expected to be the ultimate version of Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard prior to the release of OS 10.7 Lion. The Security Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard

Apple today announced that Mac OS X Lion, the eighth major release of the worlds most advanced operating system with more than 250 new features and 3,000 new developer APIs, will be available to customers in July as a download from the Mac App Store for $29.99.

Bento, the Japanese meal of databases, is back with a new release. Bento 4 brings new printing options (most notably Label printing in addition to printing options that use less ink), new fields such as "Location," the ability to store sound files from mobile media, and a Simple List field that provides a small scale spreadsheet within a record. While not as powerful as FileMaker, Bento is significantly easier to use and, more importantly, is dirt simple when it comes to creating a new databases from scratch. Bento 4 continues to add features and power and still maintains its ease of use and development.

Ever since the Mac had a CD tray, it could burn CDs all by itself and didn't require anything else to do that. Around the same time, Toast was there to help you do it better. Now, years later, nothing has really changed: your Mac can still burn CDs and DVDs, and Toast 11 can burn either of them (as well as Blu-ray disks) and do a lot more, and it still does a better job of the basic function: burning disks. It's pretty straightforward, but if you want subtleties, that's harder to do, and that's where Toast can help. And, if you want to enhance your video's sound, Toast now provides an amazing range of options. I have to add that while there are a number of significant improvements, I also find that at least one change provided a bit of a step backwards in user assistance.

It was only back in November when I first wrote about FileMaker Go for iPad and iPhone. Now, less than a half-year later, we have a big new release, free for current owners of FM Go. Funny thing about apps is that just a minor update in numbers—1.1 to 1.2—and it's a whole new ball game. Some of the limitations about FM Go came from limitations in the iOS; specifically, printing. But now that iOS allows you to print to wireless printers, FM Go can as well. FM Go now supports sliding fields andcharts, and now one can capture signatures in the database. But there's more...

When the iFixIt team heard the news that the new iMacs were out, they knew what they had to do: start sharpening their suction cups! The suction cup gamble paid off, but what lay inside?

Pairing the range of features and capabilities of any application down to a core feature set is a challenge. To make that application easier to use is a separate challenge in itself. Adobe does a great job in shrinking one of these two applications down to size so that the hobbyist can take advantage of what the parent applications have to offer. This release of Elements 9 brings two new applications to the Mac market: Premier (the video application) and Organizer (the content explorer application). Both of these two are not new and are both well seasoned applications. What's new is that they are now available for the Mac. I find Photoshop Elements both powerful and easy to use, Premier Elements is very powerful and a great step up from iMovie, but with a very steep learning curve. If you are used to using Bridge, Organizer is a bit frustrating, but it has a lot of to offer, just in different ways.