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Ask TUAW: Key remapping in Boot Camp, iPad tethering, file-sharing with a media extender, and more

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Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we deal with some technical issues on our production Mac before turning to questions about Windows key remapping in Boot Camp, sharing files with...

App Store categories get browser pages

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Apple has apparently taken another step towards bringing iTunes to the browser, as you can now browse actual categories of the iTunes...

Market Share: OS X, Safari Flat; iPhone OS Slows in January

Looking at data from web metrics firm Net Applications, the first month of the new year was not big news for Apple. Both Mac OS X and Safari reached something of a plateau in market share, and the growth rate of iPhone OS slowed. OS X peaked at 5.27 percent in October, which not coincidentally was...

IE8, Chrome have most momentum in browser wars

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Chrome is on a roll. It's the fastest-growing browser in terms of market share we've seen in a long time. And its rapid growth corresponds with...

How-To: Turbocharge Your Browsing With Greasemonkey

While the debate over Mac versus PC will last for eternity, one of the elements that many “diehard” PC users have thrown at Apple fanboys is the ability to really tweak their experience, through application add-ons and plugins. Mac users who use Firefox have had a little taste of this with Greasemonkey, a Firefox add-on that...

TUAW Tip: Get an instant definition of any word in a pop up window

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Gee, I love stuff like this, and I wish I would have known about it a long time ago. The tip comes from OSXhelp.com and it's a great one.

Safari Alternatives: What’s Your Primary Browser of Choice and Why?

Macworld’s Joe Kissell observes that there are many fine Mac Web browsers to choose from, and there’s no reason not to have several installed so that you can switch among them as needed. Indeed, I virtually always have at least three up and running at any given time. Safari vs. Firefox However, most folks are inclined to...

Using Safari’s Activity window to download media

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Although Firefox can be dressed up with a host of extensions, many of which are great, most of the time I like my browser to be a plain Jane. That's why I prefer...

Flash on the iPhone, in demo form

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Flash has finally made its way to the iPhone, with the help of some sneaky developers. The open source Gordon project, hosted over at github, has provided a JavaScript-powered Flash runtime. With it, you can actually load and...

Firefox 3.6 Release Candidate now available

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Mozilla has dropped a Firefox 3.6 release candidate which you can download and install it now if you want to try the browser's latest and greatest....

Apple’s top technical feats of the decade

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We're well into 2010 (OK, 4 days), but there's still a few more lists and "top tens" of the last decade to clean up. One of the more...

Chrome beat Safari in December

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Here's an interesting fact that dropped over the weekend: Google Chrome, the browser by the search company with a silly name, actually beat Apple's Safari browser in overall usage during the last month of...