With an ultra-portable profile and ultra-chic design, Dell’s new 13.4 inch laptop gives the MacBook Air a run for its money.

Apple is on a trajectory to slow and painful decline if it doesn’t meet consumer demand for netbooks.

Five Greasemonkey tricks (well, four Greasemonkey tricks and one extension really) can quickly make Gmail more pleasant and more powerful to use and better integrate it with GCal and Google Reader.

Are Apple’s notebook power supplies badly designed and dangerous? I have wondered about this since my own powerbrick sparked up and burnt out a few months ago. Then an article appeared on digg which seemed to explain it all. Or did it?

OPINION |How can anyone seriously argue that writing a whole spreadsheet package in Javascript is anything more than a hack? The future is in desktop apps that mirror settings and documents online. Firefox can do it; the mystery is why more software doesn’t.

Ever gone looking for the basic image retouching app in OS X? It isn’t there. The Seashore Project, an open-source image editor, sits somewhere between Microsoft Paint and Photoshop and plugs the gap nicely. And of course, it’s free.

The art of getting things done on your computer is without doubt a state of mind. It’s so easy to waste time goofing around that only good mental discipline can save you. Having the right tools helps too. Two purpose-built browsers for Gmail and Gcal can help you to focus on the work in front of you and get it done.

The Skype competitor Gizmo Project is offering free calls to any landline phone in Australia, as well as 59 other countries.

Owners of new notebooks including the MacBook Pro are getting sick of staring at their empty ExpressCard slots. So what can you fill it with? A new generation of cards are in the final stages of development and are about to hit the market.

Mac fans worldwide are feeling a disturbance in the force: author Cory Doctorow (of BoingBoing fame) and software developer Mark Pilgrim have announced they’ve had it with OS X, and are switching to Ubuntu.