ChromeOS Flex is a free cloud-based distribution of Google's operating system intended to make it easy to turn your existing laptop into a Chromebook. It integrates Google products natively, provides ...

For decades, the process of making a surfboard has more or less been the same: cut a piece of foam; put a wooden stringer down the middle to provide structure and strength; shape it, then wrap it in ...

This month, resolve to revive or relinquish those old music players and point-and-shoot cameras — and retrieve any files trapped on the devices. By J. D. Biersdorfer J. D. Biersdorfer writes the ...

A plain manila envelope became a key stage prop for selling the MacBook Air. January 15, 2008: Apple CEO Steve Jobs shows off the first MacBook Air at the Macworld conference in San Francisco, calling ...

According to the global data site Statista, about 30 billion devices are connected to the internet, but trying to get one PC to talk to another one right next to it via a cable has long been a quirky ...

December 2, 1991: Apple ships its first public version of the QuickTime player, bringing video to Mac users running System 7. Containing codecs for graphics, animation and video, QuickTime confirms ...

Early in the macOS 26 Tahoe beta cycle, reports emerged that Apple had removed support for FireWire, the once-ubiquitous peripheral connection technology that took over from SCSI around 1999 and ...

What just happened? FireWire was Apple's ambitious attempt to establish a novel connectivity technology for its computer ecosystem back in the 90s. Now, Cupertino is unceremoniously removing the ...

FireWire's final curtain call may be upon us. In the first developer beta of macOS 26 Tahoe, Apple has removed all FireWire support. While the removal comes in a beta release and technically could be ...

For a moment in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the future looked uncertain for the Universal Serial Bus (USB). At the time, it was IEEE 1394 (better known by the Apple trademark FireWire) that ...

Even though it is still possible to capture old videotapes with a very recent Mac running Sequoia, doing that with FireWire (IEEE 1394) requires multiple adapters to two different types of standards: ...