Some of the hints for older, unsupported OSes apply equally to both Mac and Windows. Both come with an assortment of bundled ...

Pear OS has had a bit of history. It started out as a Debian-based Linux distribution called Pear OS. Then, out of nowhere, it was renamed Comice OS. The rename gremlins struck again, and it was back ...

The new pearOS distro is a Romanian project that picks up the concepts behind the original Pear Linux from 2011 and updates ...

OS Tahoe 26.2 looks like a routine point release, but tucked behind the headline features are quiet changes that reshape how ...

The built-in VPN shines on both Android and MacOS beta. Aloha is a solid Chrome alternative on Android, with room to improve.

Apple today provided beta testers with the first releases of upcoming iOS 26.3, iPadOS 26.3, tvOS 26.3, and watchOS 26.3 updates for testing purposes. The public betas come a couple of days after ...

Adam Engst walks you through Apple’s OS 26.2 updates, highlighting new alarms in Reminders, auto-generated chapters in Podcasts, Enhanced Safety Alerts, and Edge Light for Mac video calls—along with ...

Apple today released visionOS 26.2, the second update to the visionOS 26 operating system that came out in September. visionOS 26.2 comes a month after the release of visionOS 26.1. ‌visionOS 26‌.2 ...

If you’ve just purchased a new Mac, like the recently-released, you might also be looking into some of the best display options. Here are my recommendations, covering multiple product categories, ...

Homebrew is a package manager that many Mac users have come to rely on. Using the command-line brew program, you can install a huge range of software, ranging from other command-line tools to ...

Apple last updated the Mac Pro in June 2023 when it was the last Mac to be outfitted with an M-series chip–three years after Apple started to use its own silicon in Macs. At that point, the Mac Pro ...

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