Microsoft Needs to Empty Windows Trash, Reboot -- Mr. Ballmer, tear down this operating system! Seriously: you have virtualization software. Vista is bloated, but not bad. Don't make Windows 7 continue to carry the water for 15 years of old, sometimes bad decisions. Just a suggestion. (Glenn Fleishman, 2008-06-29)

Discovering Sparse Bundle Disk Images -- A new disk image format introduced in Leopard is backup-friendly, because it doesn't require huge files to be backed up when only a small change has occurred. Now we just need more developers to catch on. (Joe Kissell, 2008-06-27)

Print Custom Text & Photo M&M's -- Who knew you could now print photos on custom M&M's? Well, you do now, but good luck getting a photo to print well in half the size of a dime. (Adam C. Engst, 2008-06-27)

Vanity Spreads to Top-Level Domain Names -- Have you ever wanted to see your name in dot-lights? The group that oversees domain names will allow vanity and corporate top-level domain registration. Are .coke, .pepsi, and .7up in our future? (Glenn Fleishman, 2008-06-26)

Symbian Smartphone Platform Goes Free, Partly Open Source -- Nokia buys out its partners in Symbian, the world's most popular smartphone platform by far, and may change the whole nature of competition for these intelligent communicators by making it even more accessible to more handset makers. It's a shot across the bow for Apple, RIM, Microsoft, and Google, but it won't reach fruition until 2010. (Glenn Fleishman, 2008-06-24)

Get More From the iPhone's Text Widget -- Texting on the iPhone is fun and useful, but it also can be expensive and may not work all the time. Discover how to track and reduce your bill, and find tips on solving problems with the Text widget. (Ted Landau, 2008-04-24)

Solve More Word 2008 Problems with AppleScript -- A pair of articles I wrote for Macworld provide several AppleScripts that address common complaints in Word 2008. (Joe Kissell, 2008-04-22)