Wiley Publishing thinks that you can, running into Apple Mac territory with its training book Teach Yourself Visually: Mac OS X Snow Leopard. The book series that promises you can “Read Less – Learn More” unspools more than 300 full-color pages of instruction on the full range of everyday use of the Mac’s latest operating [...]

We ordered our first iPad for Bites HQ on Friday, dropping into the Apple online store to plunk down a $499 pre-order for a WiFi model with 16GB of memory. It was the minimal investment to get a business tool in our hands — and see what it might be worth.
It’s a beloved bromide that [...]

The canvas of the Filemaker database is wide and rich for Mac business users, an enduring data capture resource that looks even more vivid in the newest release of this tool. Filemaker 11 rolls out today with a big palette of charting and graphics shortcuts, the kind of built-in prowess that makes a great case [...]

You want your Mac security tools to behave like Columbo, or Inspector Plodder from the play Sleuth. Not the fastest of detectives, but one that will not miss a detail. So it goes with the newest VirusBarrier X6 anti-virus and firewall product from Intego. You can set it and go, but you might as well [...]

Apple announced this morning that it’s long-awaited, thoroughly-dissected, hotly-contested iPad will be available for pre-orders in one week, with deliveries to begin April 3. The company will start with its WiFi models first, then add the 3G-capable units by the end of April.
Devices can be ordered online starting next week, or pre-ordered from Apple’s retail [...]

It’s not tough to make a case today for better Mac security than what Apple delivers out of the box. Even though your business systems ship with a first-level firewall, they don’t arrive with any anti-virus software. Apple insists in clever ads that Mac security is not the problem that users find on PCs. That [...]

Throughout March, the organizers of Macworld Expo 2010 are making the conference session presentations available to attendees. These are usually PowerPoint slide decks, and they are offered without audio commentary. But they are online this month at the Expo’s Web site, a real value for any attendee who couldn’t find enough time to sit in [...]

We wanted to love the new Quicken Essentials for the Mac, truly we did. Bites of Apple and several other small businesses here are run on Intuit products, from the business-worthy QuickBooks 2010 to the pocket-sized Quicken 2005. There was never much reason here to upgrade to Quicken 2007 for Mac. By then, the Mac [...]

Developers now have the iPad software development toolkit, so the behavior of the iPad interface is being shared via YouTube videos. Nobody can demonstrate the multitouch gestures yet — these simulations use a mouse to mimic the hand touch interface. If you’ve used the browser in the iPhone, there are few new wrinkles here. Best [...]

One of the busiest booths at last week’s Macworld 2010 Expo was one staffed by a 500-year-old company, showing a sparkling-new product. Papershow makes a presentation interactive over the Web or inside a meeting room. It relies on the magic of Papershow paper, a frame of microscopic points, almost invisible to the naked eye, which [...]