Edward Mendelson
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Apple macOS Sonoma Preview
Apple’s macOS Sonoma beta includes spectacular videoconferencing improvements, desktop widgets, a new Game Mode, shared passwords, and much more. The final version will be released on September 26. → Read More
24 Microsoft Word Tips to Make Your Life Easier
Think you know everything about Microsoft Word? Here are some hidden tricks and time-saving hacks you need to know about the popular word processor. → Read More
13 Big Changes We Want in MacOS 14
With new macOS 14 features likely to be announced at Apple's 2023 WWDC event, these are the changes we're most hoping to see. → Read More
macOS Ventura Preview
macOS Ventura's improvements include features to help you focus, use your phone as a camera, find things more easily in email, and much more. It's in public beta so you can try it right now, but you shouldn't install it on your main Mac yet. → Read More
The 10 Coolest Things About macOS Ventura
Apple's upcoming OS lets you recall messages and emails after you send them, use your iPhone's camera for video calls you take on a Mac, and more. → Read More
SoftMaker Office Review
SoftMaker Office 2021 is the closest thing you can find to Microsoft 365 at a lower price. It offers an elegant interface and all the capabilities home-office and small-business users need. → Read More
Apple iWork Review
Apple’s iWork apps are free, sophisticated, and deeply integrated within its ecosystem. Their default file formats aren't conducive to sharing, however. → Read More
Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides Review
Google’s free office apps are minimal, but they're robust enough for most users and have excellent collaboration tools. Working offline isn’t seamless, but the well-designed web and mobile versions offer a reliable document-creation platform. → Read More
How to Put Safari's Search Bar Back on Top in iOS 15
Annoyed that Apple moved the address and search bar to the bottom of the screen in mobile Safari without asking you first? We show you how to put it back where it was in just a few steps. → Read More
Corel WordPerfect Office Review
WordPerfect has the only Windows-compatible word processor that doesn't work like Microsoft Office; it allows for precise, predictable control over formatting. It's a worthy upgrade, but new users may be turned off by its dated UI and lack of collaboration tools. → Read More
Oracle VM VirtualBox for Mac Review
VirtualBox is free and open-source, and it works well for developers and hobbyists, but less well for anyone who wants to run Windows and Linux apps in a smoothly integrated way on a Mac. → Read More
Microsoft Office Professional 2021 Review
Microsoft Office is the best set of productivity apps for serious office work. The new version is an incremental upgrade that adds speed and some ingenious convenience features but otherwise works almost exactly like earlier versions, so there's no big learning curve for upgraders. → Read More
ShadowProtect SPX Desktop Review
Of the many backup solutions available for Windows, ShadowProtect SPX Desktop is the most solid, mature, and reliable way to get a system up and running after a hardware failure, malware attack, or system malfunction. → Read More
Get the Best of Both Worlds: How to Run Windows Apps on Your Mac
If you need to run a Windows app on your macOS system, you have several virtualization and emulation options. It won't be a seamless process, but we'll walk you through the right way to do it. → Read More
Parallels Desktop Review
Parallels Desktop is the best and fastest emulation software for running Windows, Linux, and even older versions of macOS on Intel-based Macs. If you need to run Windows on an Apple Silicon machine, it's also your only option. → Read More
VMware Fusion Review
VMware Fusion offers deep customization options and integrations for running Windows and most other Intel-based OSes on an Intel-based Mac. Competitor Parallels Desktop performed better in testing, however. → Read More
Parallels Desktop Review
Parallels Desktop is the best and fastest emulation software for running Windows, Linux, and even older versions of macOS on Intel-based Macs. If you need to run Windows on an Apple Silicon machine, it's also your only option. → Read More
Apple macOS Monterey Preview
The macOS Monterey public beta isn’t ready to use on your main machine, but if you want to get a sense of its deep integration, security, and convenience features, install it on a machine where you won’t mind occasional beta glitches. → Read More
Apple MacOS Monterey: 10 Things to Check Out Right Away
FaceTime, Shortcuts, and AirPlay get big boosts this fall in Apple's macOS Monterey, the successor to Big Sur. → Read More
LibreOffice Review
LibreOffice is a free and open-source document suite that's available on all major OSes, but it still doesn’t offer online access or collaboration features. It's also not nearly as smooth in operation as competitors. → Read More