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 [...]

I’ve never enabled FileVault because I’ve heard that it made backing up with Time Machine difficult. Is there a way to make FileVault and Time Machine play nice with each other? It’s true that FileVault and Time Machine have historically not played well together, but with OS X Lion, Apple has thankfully fixed these issues. [...]

Apple unveiled a beta version of iCloud.com, the company’s host of cloud applications, as well as pricing for the services. The website is currently open only to a limited number of developers, until a public launch promised this fall. iCloud is what Apple calls the online home of your data, including documents, contacts, calendars, emails, [...]

I upgraded my MacBook Pro with a solid-state drive for speed, but it’s too small to hold all of my files. I know how to move music and photo folders to an external drive, but how do I move my Documents folder? I created a Documents folder on an external drive, but no matter what, [...]

History does repeat itself: San Francisco Police Department confirms it helped Apple in a hunt for a lost iPhone 5 prototype that went missing in July. Don’t hold your breath, though — no photographic evidence is available this time, as it was the case with the lost iPhone 4 prototype last year. Just a few [...]

The best keeps getting better In the wake of Apple’s transition to Intel chips in 2006, the longtime question “Mac or PC?” soon became “What’s the best way for me to run Windows on a Mac?” Virtualization specialists Parallels and VMware have been duking it out ever since with their respective Desktop and Fusion products, [...]

The Apple iPad is essentially a tablet PC that runs on the Apple iOS platform. The device has its share of supporters and detractors, just like many other Apple products. Some believe that is a great tool that has brought tablet PCs into mainstream popularity. However, other people believe that it is simply an overpriced [...]

It’s been more than three weeks since OS X Lion escaped from the Mac App Store and took up residence in Macs around the globe, and for the most part users are quite happy with their new houseguest. Part of the fun with any new operating system releases is uncovering the new features — and [...]

The cloud-storage service Syncplicity has revamped its iOS app, expanding the previously iPhone-only offering into a iPad-friendly universal version that will let users access their documents from just about any device they own. Version 1.2 of the Syncplicity app debuted Thursday in the app store, pitched primarily at business users who must share documents with [...]

He was hired to fix their computers, but police say that Trevor Harwell instead installed spyware software that took candid photos of his clients in various states of undress. Harwell had been a Macintosh specialist with a Los Angeles-area home computer repair company called Rezitech. That’s how he allegedly had the opportunity to install the [...]