The new Mac App Store is online

It's simple way to find, install, and manage your favorite software. To see the Mac App Store at all, you'll need to run your Software Updates (under the Apple menu) and get Mac OS X 10.6.6 System Update, or run the combo update you can download here.

After you reboot, you'll see a new icon in your dock, right after the Finder icon. Click that to launch the app store. Most apps cost less than you may have seen them at retail, but some, like Things, are priced higher than we've seen them in bundles.

Guard yourself from Firesheep and Wi-Fi snooping

The abundance of free/cheap and open Wi-Fi networks in restaurants, airports, offices and hotels is a great perk to the traveling user; it makes connectivity and remote access much easier than it used to be. But you need to be informed and understand the risks.

How to: Properly Coil Your MacBook's Power Cord

Apple's white power brick is pretty handy, what with the attached hooks for coiling it up and packing it away. If you do it wrong, though, you'll likely stress the cord and break it (or worse, create a fire hazard).

Secure password without having to remember anything complex

If you want a secure password without having to remember anything complex, try shifting your fingers one set of keys to the right. It will make your password look like gibberish, will often add in punctuation marks, and is quick and simple.

Let's take a look at how a few of those popular passwords fare when run through this method: * password => [sddeptf * letmein => ;ry,rom * money => .pmru * love => ;pbr

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Choose Which App Opens for Each Camera in Snow Leopard

Previous to 10.6, when you plugged a camera in, it would launch iPhoto or Aperture or whatever program you’d set up as your default.

Image Capture 6.0, in 10.6 takes care of this with a little preference portion in the lower left corner of the app. For each camera you can set a preference as to which program, if any, will launch when that device is plugged in.

Facebook Notifications Brings Facebook to Your Mac

Free menu bar application Facebook Notifications brings notifications and status updates from the popular social networking site to your desktop. Get Facebook Notifications