How to fix Drop Box permissions issues in 10.5 Some users have permissions issues—read-only files—when working with documents placed in their Drop Box folder. Learn how to fix the cause of the problem, and a simple workaround.
United Lemur announces Puzzllotto for iPhone Developer collaborative United Lemur announced the company's first iPhone app, an exploration puzzle in the spirit of Zork and Myst.
Favorite Firefox extensions In this week's Macworld Video, Rob Griffiths show you how to use extensions to extend the power of Firefox, all for no cost and with only a little bit of work.
Delkin offers SD to CF adapter Delkin's new SD to CF adapter enables you to use SD and SDHC flash cards in CompactFlash-compatible devices, such as digital cameras.
Tom Bihn Zephyr Tom Bihn's Zephyr is attractive and well-made, but you pay for that quality. It's best-suited for those with specific organizational needs.
Review: i-rocks RF-7550A 2.4GHz Cordless Optical Mouse The affordable RF-7550A is a good mouse—not a great mouse, but a solid five-button RF-wireless unit that at 3.5 ounces is heavy enough to be comfortable but light enough to be portable.
Review: Newsstand and News Now for iPhone Newsstand is a sophisticated RSS reader with a neat gimmick. News Now is a free, bare-bones RSS reader. Both apps take different approaches to keeping you up-to-date on the latest news via your mobile device.
Apple's fall notebook classic As Apple prepares to roll out updates to its notebook line, Dan Moren takes a shot at what we might end up seeing in the next MacBooks.
Video: World Tech Update In this week’s show: new games from the Tokyo Game Show, AMD splits into two, Panasonic sets a world record, the BlackBerry Storm readies to debut, Sony shows off a new OLED and Toshiba demonstrates a cell phone running on a fuel cell.
Syncing iTunes U videos You've downloaded a course from iTunes U but the videos aren't organized on your iPhone or iPod the way you'd like. Here's how to impose some organization on that content.
Recover from a misplaced Character Palette window Learn a couple of ways to force the Character Palette window back to its normal position -- this can be a problem if you occasionally use your laptop Mac with an external monitor, for instance.
Review: Canon Pixma MP480 multifunction device Canon’s Pixma MP480 doesn’t have all of the fancy features found on some of the MFPs we've tested recently, like integrated fax capabilities, an automatic document feeder, or wireless connectivity. But the MP480 proved to be a very capable device in all of its functions.
Mozilla locks in Firefox 3.1 feature list Mozilla plans to add a private browsing mode and beef up Firefox’s address bar during a several-week delay it added to the Firefox 3.1 schedule.
Recording Studio: The Mac backup band If you're finding impromptu jam sessions hard to come by, consider software that will let your Mac act as your band.
iTunes and media file organization If you use iTunes, how much attention do you pay to how iTunes organizes and names your media files in the Finder? If you organize your files manually, what are the advantages of doing so?
Rondo MIDI software improves interface Rondo, the MIDI software from FracturedSoftware, has been tweaked with an updated interface and other improvements.
Review: Fuel mileage trackers for iPhone In his round-up of iPhone apps that let you track your fuel mileage over time, Rob Griffiths discovers two solid performers that convinced him to retire his fuel-tracking pen and notebook.
Review: Trip Cubby for iPhone Trip Cubby lets you keep track of the miles that you spend driving for tax purposes. It's a solid effort, but not without its quirks.
Document switching shortcuts Care to quickly move through open document windows? If you haven't learned these shortcuts by now, it's high time you did.