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 [...]

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 [...]

Google’s Android 4.0 “Ice Cream Sandwich” mobile OS release, which is expected to debut this evening, has developers hoping for resolution of longstanding platform fragmentation problems and critical bug fixes. Android application developers now deal with multiple versions of the operating system, geared for either phones or tablets but not both. They also have had [...]

Conventional wisdom has it that Windows and products from Microsoft are extremely unsafe, easy targets for hackers. That conventional wisdom is wrong, according to security firm Kaspersky Lab’s recent quarterly malware report, which found not a single Microsoft-related threat in the top ten. The Kapersky Lab quarterly report has this to say about Microsoft products: [...]

More and more, WebOS seems like an operating system that not even its own mother could love. Samsung CEO Choi Gee Sung told reporters at the IFA consumer electronics conference in Berlin that his company will “never” consider purchasing WebOS from HP, which announced last month that it is discontinuing WebOS devices. Some analysts had [...]

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. [...]

A blow-by-blow account of negotiations leading up to Google’s acquisition of Motorola indicates that the deal may have been one of necessity rather than opportunity for Google. In a proxy statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Motorola said that it was considering settling some or all of the patent infringement lawsuits against [...]

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, [...]

The Windows 8 Start screen (click to enlarge).Windows 8 is a bold new take on computing, unifying tablets, desktops, laptops, the Internet, and smartphones under one Windows roof. With only a brief introduction to the operating system here at Microsoft’s BUILD conference, we are seeing Microsoft skillfully bridge today’s computing habits into the future–otherwise known [...]

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, [...]