At least two generations of MacBook Pros have come to market with faulty nVidia chips that caused many to suffer a premature death. Further, the Mac maker and to a lesser extent chip giant have backstopped these losses with extended warranties, repairs and replacements. Why would anyone think these two are anything but the bestest of buds?

From simplistic to platinum, here are four tools designed to teach the beginner and help an expert polish his chops. Or, if you’re just looking to have some fun, treat yourself to a game or three or 10 while sprucing up your data input skills.

Get down to your closest Apple Store and make a pest of yourself (just a little). What will likely be the year’s top title is running on every Mac there, even though it won’t go on sale for a couple days.

Whether you have just five minutes on a bench or five days in a hospital to get through, solitaire is one of the all-time greatest time sinks. However, just because you have some free time doesn’t mean you have to pay to fill it up—read on for how to get more play for little to no money.

So, you are sitting at home with (*cough*) nothing better to do and trying to think of a low impact way to spend a little of your pay / unemployment / savings? Well, here are a dozen ways to spend (or not) your cash and have a good time doing it.

Shantanu Narayen, the graphic software giant’s chief executive officer, overheard on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, purportedly has said that not only is Flash for the iPhone not dead, but that work is moving ahead.

If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, you’ve been living in fear of this day. Get ready to spend hours on that bench at the mall (no, honey, please keep shopping) or to miss your subway stop or just forget what day it is for a whole week.

Looking for free Mac games to play on your Apple Macintosh? Here’s our list of what we think are the top 40 free games for the Mac you can download right now.

The company behind many popular Facebook-based games has found a creative way to harness the iPhone’s accelerometer. ‘iFun’ will allow users to play computer games using either the iPhone or the iPod touch as a handheld controller in the style of the Nintendo Wii.

Mocking contempt for lame duck President George W Bush turns into free software as gas prices tumble back to pre-crisis levels.