Microsoft/Mac Monday

Several months ago for one of our CyberNotes, we talked about Vista's Parental Controls and how it's one of Vista's shining points. It gives parents control over nearly every aspect of their child's computer use. Parental Controls help parents do their job of protecting their children from harm while allowing them to experience all that a computer can offer. Since we have already covered Vista's parental controls,

Microsoft/Mac Monday

Lately we've been finding ourselves discussing applications that we really like for one operating system, that would be great on another. We decided to put these discussions into an article about all of the applications we'd like to see for Windows, but are only available for Macs, and then visa versa, the applications we'd like to see available for Macs, but are only available for Windows. We're also

There are a lot of things that are often overlooked when designing a new operating system whether it be Windows, the Mac operating system, or any of the various distributions of Linux. For example, have you noticed that the Internet Explorer image placeholder icon has remained the same for a LONG time or that the icon for an Internet Connection in Vista is designed for Windows XP? When using Mac OS X, have you noticed

Microsoft/Mac Monday

Everyday many of us have to open various files on our computers whether they are documents, music, or photo files. It's something we do out of habit without even thinking, so you probably haven't really stopped to think about the process of browsing for files. Today we are going to take a look at what it is like to browse for files on both Mac OS X and

It looked like Mozilla was ready to ship Firefox 3 with the last Release Candidate, but a critical bug surfaced that they couldn't ignore. So Mozilla is rushing out a Firefox 3 RC3 that fixes only this one bug, and only Mac OS X users need to make the upgrade. Firefox 3 RC3 for both Windows and Linux are the same as Firefox 3 RC2.

It turns

For Mac users, Apple has released the update, Mac OS X 10.5.3. You've probably already seen the update available for download in the Software Update, but you may not be aware of what this new update does. One of the biggest things, of course, is that it includes some general operating system fixes which you can read all about here. There's a pretty long list of minor changes that were made all across the

INTRO Finding Windows Contacts and Address Book While this may be very basic, if you can't locate Windows Contacts or Address Book on a Mac, they will be of no use to you! ... This is what you'll be looking for: To find Address Book (Mac) Address Book comes with Leopard and should already be located on your Dock.