I've been using iWow for iTunes some time now. It makes my music sound great, but there is a downside to it ... if you have a 'slow' Mac like mine (mini 1.42 GHz), it eats up to 42% of the CPU. During CPU intensive tasks, that can be a real pain.

I work in an office with lots of Macs with iTunes libraries, and often play stuff off other people's libraries to check it out. But I don't want to be busy looking up bands when I'm at work, so I wrote two AppleScripts to post a link containing a...

Acer's Aspire One netbook laptop comes without an optical drive. It does comes with a DVD, though, that lets you either install Linpus Linux OS to the netbook by connecting an external USB optical drive to it, or create a recovery USB drive using the...