Reduce, reuse and recycle—call ‘em the three “Rs.” My current single-layer DVD writer started life inside a Graphite G4 tower, migrated to an external enclosure and now it’ll be sold on Craig’s List. It’s being replaced by a faster, dual-layer burner that should make life a good bit easier.

When I last looked over the open-source movement’s answer to iTunes, it was clear that in spite of a number of great features, it was also lacking in some significant ways. Now, a few of those caveats have been addressed, so it’s time to look again at this surprisingly thoughtful and functional jukebox application.

Like everything else on the fairer platform, configuring your Mac to require a password to wake from sleep or turn off the screensaver is really easy and it just works. Also, with the aid of a free utility, you can configure a security hot key (aka the Vulcan death grip) combination.

Is this the lowest price ever for a new - not used or refurbished - Mac? It’s definitely not the freshest Apple desktop computer around, but easily the least expensive new Macintosh computer price I’ve ever seen.

When it comes to Web browsers for Apple’s Macintosh computers, there are a lot more choices out there than you may realize, including at least four Mozilla-based and, would you believe it, seven WebKit-based products. And, that’s just the beginning!

Perhaps the old adage that, “There’s no such thing as a free puppy,” should be updated to read, “There’s no such thing as free porn.” Social engineering at work…

After what has been a fairly shaky start in the acceptance or rejection of apps for the Apple App Store, there is now some talk of instituting a rating system for games sold via the store.

Tweeting a photo that has already been uploaded to the web is as easy as right clicking (control clicking) to get that image’s address, then just pasting that into your Twitter client (browser window) and then you may tweet at will, or willfully, as the case may be.

At the end of May, Blorge took an in depth look at the extensive data and privacy trail Safari 4 beta left in its wake. Now, with the Safari 4 final in our hands, we pop the hood once again to see if any improvements have been made.

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.