What happens when hundreds of millions of people come together online? Politicians fall from grace, businesses form out of nowhere, and people have new ways to share popular - and unpopular - interests, hobbies, and physical behaviors. In "Here Comes Everybody," Internet social commentator Clay Shirky examines the lot.

Mac OS X has been around for 7 years, so why are there still all these secret settings and undocumented mechanisms?

A new and improved version of Joe's Paste Plain Text AppleScript is shorter, more elegant, and less likely to result in the wrong font being used.

If you're unhappy with the way your Mac laptop handles sleep mode, you no longer need a command-line script to change it. This new preference pane makes it easy to tailor sleep settings to your liking.

Here are a few more podcasts for your listening pleasure. In MacNotables 811 and 812, Ted Landau and I chatted with Chuck Joiner about the effects that the iPhone SDK will have, why Apple will likely remain dominant in the world of MP3 players, and lots more...

A new maintenance utility looks fantastic and does a few things well, but has some serious bugs, missing features, and other problems.

I have a couple of new articles posted at Macworld.com about Time Machine. Both have been generating lots of comments. If you're using Time Machine, or thinking about it, check these out. Is Time Machine all you need? looks at cases in which Time Machine might be adequate as a sole backup mechanism and cases where you'll want to supplement it with something else - or even skip it altogether...

The latest version of the popular disk cloning utility is not only compatible with Leopard, it has some fancy tricks up its sleeve - such as making copies of Time Machine archives.

After discovering that my Apple TV wouldn't play a rented movie because of the way it's connected to a Dell LCD display, I took an unorthodox route: I contacted Apple customer support. It all worked out in the end, but beware if you're in a similar situation.

Leopard's iChat Theater feature makes remote video presentations far easier and more flexible than before. But the experience doesn't always match up with the elegant effect of Apple's demos.

Tune in to listen to Adam be interviewed by Nancy Aldrich-Ruenzel, publisher of Peachpit Press. It's a good one!

Jeff Carlson is thrilled to announce the birth of his daughter, Eliana Wren Carlson!

It's yet another podcast show on Macworld, this time an overview of the show hosted by Shawn King and including me, Jason Snell, and Leo Laporte.

Catalog Choice must be doing a good job of helping individuals reduce the flood of unwanted catalogs - the Direct Marketing Association is on the defensive.

Microsoft has changed its mind once again, and now permits Vista Home editions to be run as guest operating systems using virtualization software.

A friend called the other day because the tip to his wife's PowerBook G4 had broken off inside the jack. The local Apple-authorized repair shop said it would take a week and cost $65 to fix, and his wife couldn't be without the machine that long...

Ever since the iPhone's arrival last June, corporate users have been champing at the bit for an opportunity to activate Apple's communications marvel on an enterprise plan; iPhones could only be activated by individuals. Finally, this week, AT&T announced enterprise data plans available to government, education, and business accounts.

Check this Flickr photo set of famous works of art, all cleverly modified with artifiacts from our own electronic culture. Where else would you see Napoleon juxtaposed with "ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US."?

Apple has released a pink iPod nano, just in time for Valentine's Day. This is clearly a hint!

TidBITS Senior Editor Tonya Engst is shocked to have to wait in line for the bathroom at Macworld Expo. Seemingly many more women made the trek to the show this year.