So, you finally let Windows out to rot and made the switch to the Mac. Feeling a little anxious about it? Well, first of all, relax. There are plenty of resources out there to help you get situation, not to mention an amazing community of enthusiasts who have no problem helping you find your way. To get you started, here’s a list of 9 essential resources you should add to your arsenal right now. No matter your experience level with computers, these resources can surely help you find your way.

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Do you know any Terminal tricks or third-party apps that can bring these three things back to Lion? First, the winding gear in the lower-right corner of a Finder window that lets me know the information is being accessed, just not visible yet. Second, the line of info at the bottom of the Finder window that tells me the number of items and disk space remaining. And third, the translucent QuickLook window, instead of solid gray.

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You know the symptoms: applications don’t open as fast as they used to, and you always seem to be running out of space on your hard drive. It’s painful to admit, but your MacBook Pro that was so shiny a year ago may finally be showing its age. But you don’t have to put your faithful companion out to pasture–or make another $2,000 trip to the Apple Store–just yet. Save those pennies while you work (and play) more productively by upgrading your MacBook Pro yourself.

It’s easier to do than you might think, due in part to the fact that we MacBook Pro owners don’t have nearly as many options as our pals with Mac Pros. In fact, our upgrade paths boil down to Read the rest of this entry »

Use a Stylus

Practice, Practice, Practice

Auto smoothing FTW!

Watch That Wrist — And Those Fingers

The iPad’s ability to register Multi-Touch gestures has allowed developers to create some truly innovative applications. Unfortunately, Multi-Touch is the pits when it comes to taking hand written notes on a screen. Most of us have spent the bulk of our writing lives resting our wrists and fists on the page while we scribble away. Doing that on a multitouch tablet like the iPad can leave your notes full of bizarre scribbles, lines and other unwanted elements that are the result of the iOS mistaking your body’s Read the rest of this entry »

The hottest new Android smartphone contender to the wildly successful iPhone 4S will be launched by Samsung and Google in Hong Kong within 12 hours, insiders say.

Called the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the smartphone would be the first to run Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, the mobile operating system that unifies tablet and smartphone software.

NTT DoCoMo recently tweeted that it will have the Galaxy Nexus for its customers in Japan sometime in November, according to BGR.com.

Sources have also said that Verizon Wireless will be the smartphone’s exclusive U.S. carrier and will put the device on sale sometime this month, although Verizon would not comment when asked today. The phone is expected to run on the fast Verizon LTE network.

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Eager iPhone 4S shoppers need to log onto Apple.com the night before buying the phone at their local Apple store so they can “reserve” their purchase for the next day. The unusual approach to iPhone 4S sales is to prevent lines and disappointed shoppers at Apple Stores as the newest iPhone 4S continues to break sales records.

Apple’s reservation policy is causing confusion with Apple customers and Apple staff as it was only created on Monday, according to an Apple Store representative. The representative also said it’s unclear how long Read the rest of this entry »

SAN FRANCISCO–The BlackBerry DevCon conference kicked off here Tuesday with RIM President and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis unveiling a brand new operating system for tablets and phones: BBX OS.

RIM BlackBerry PlayBook tabletThe BBX OS is a hybrid of QNX, the operating system found in the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet with the BlackBerry OS, which is currently found on RIM phones.

The operating system will allow developers to work with a large number of open developer libraries. RIM will seek out various open source libraries and port them so developers can work on them immediately for their BBX apps.

RIM did not reveal much about the appearance or features of BBX other than it combines the best Read the rest of this entry »

Lookout, already a well known name among Android enthusiasts, is looking to give iPhone users a hand when it comes to protecting their mobile data. Lookout allows you to easily backup and restore your contacts list.Today, the company launched its mobile security app in Apple’s App Store. Lookout Mobile Security on iOS trades the virus scanner, found on the Android version, for a slick and friendly UI. The app will warn you if you are connecting to Read the rest of this entry »

Motorola Droid RazrThe Droid Razr, announced today and launching in November, is perhaps the thinnest smartphone to date, and among the lightest ever made. Motorola says the new Verizon phone is 0.28 inches thick, and that it weighs only 0.28 pounds.

Despite its lack of girth, the Droid Razr combines beefy specs, fancy materials, and its slim design in an attempt to rule the holiday shopping season. The Android 2.3 phone will launch on Verizon Wireless in November for $299 with a two-year contract.

The Droid Razr’s internals hit all the bullet points you’d expect in a high-end smartphone. There’s a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED qHD display (that’s 960-pixel by 540-pixel resolution), an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera with 1080p video capture, an HD front-facing camera, and 32 GB of memory, split between internal storage and a microSD card. It’s also a 4G LTE phone.

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It seems like we’ve been waiting for the first Android Ice Cream Sandwich phone for eternity, but at last long last, the Samsung Galaxy Nexus has arrived. At a press event Wednesday morning in Hong Kong, Samsung and Google revealed the first phone with Google’s next generation operating system, Android 4.0.

Like the Samsung Nexus S, the Android Gingerbread flagship phone, the Galaxy Nexus has a curved, contour glass display. The idea is that the phone fits to Read the rest of this entry »