Whether you're a student looking for supplemental learning or you're in the workforce but thirsty for knowledge, you don't have to drop thousands of dollars in tuition to enjoy a top-notch education from some of the best schools in the world. Computer photo by marcopako ; university building photo…

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Mac OS X has a ton of great features, but there's always room for improvement. Many developers have felt the same and created a bunch of great apps to enhance OS X's capabilities. Here are our top 10 apps that can power up your Mac to the next level. Wish this post was about Windows downloads? It…

Then came Prohibition, followed hard by industrialization. Beer went from barrel to bottle and from saloon to home refrigerator, and only the largest companies could afford to manufacture and distribute it. A generation raised on Coca-Cola had a hard time readjusting to beer’s bitterness, and…

Some people thrive on lists. They have lists for errands, groceries, chores, ideas, dog names, and so on. I am one such fellow. I keep lists to help me remember things, but also to help clear my mind. The moment when the need to make a list hits could be at any time. For me, a good list app needs to…

H ey, you know what’s popular right now? The National Basketball Association. After antagonizing basketball fans for five solid months (the lockout), barely avoiding a potential catastrophe (a nearly canceled season) and suffering a public relations semicatastrophe (the voided Chris Paul trade), the…

There’s a whole laundry list of disclaimers attached to it, but my pal (and Pulitzer winner) Matt Richtel wrote about a Stanford research report suggesting that spending considerable amounts of time on multimedia/technology can make us unhappy. In his words : “The answer, in the peer-reviewed study…

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Apple started off 2012 with a barbaric yawp, blowing away even sky-high expectations for iPhone and iPad sales . Not surprisingly, the stock has popped to an all-time high . The good news for Apple fans is that there could be a lot more where that came from. Even more than most electronics…

Mac Apps To Watch In 2012 Mac.AppStorm has published a nice list of upcoming Mac apps to watch in 2012. The list includes some MacStories staff favorites like Coda, TextMate, Spotify and Caffeinated. Other new apps worth keeping an eye on are Mou (Markdown text editor), Wunderkit (from the creators…

I knew when I bought the iPad 2 a while back that it would provide a number of uses for me, but I quickly discovered it fills more important roles in my work than I believed it would. One of those, a key for me, is as a serious system to use for a lot of the writing I do in my work. I write 3,000…

By Dan Frommer. From the archives. Friday, November 4, 2011 at 12:32 pm. Starting now, I’ll be collecting and maintaining a master list of subscription-based media services, and tracking their growing and shrinking popularity. Here’s the first edition, which I’ve assembled from earnings releases,…

E d Reed and Troy Polamalu seem to have supernatural powers — they’re everywhere on the football field at once, omnipresent demigods determined to knock your chinstrap off. Their range of skills is remarkable: total tackles, interceptions (Reed led the NFL in picks in 2010 despite playing only 10…

It’s been a busy day for Apple. The company released its next generation operating system, OS X Lion, and new a MacBook Air, Mac mini and Thunderbolt display. I had some time to sit down with Apple executives to talk about the releases. [ad#Google Adsense 300×250 in story]Perhaps the biggest release…

In a recent piece for Forbes magazine, Washington Post (s wpo) managing editor Raju Narisetti looks at the challenges that mainstream media of all kinds are facing — falling circulation, the gap between traditional print advertising and the smaller revenues from online advertising, and the…

The finished shooter's sandwich. Photograph: Tim Hayward Like most men I love a sandwich. I like the immediacy and functionality of food shaped to post into the mouth. I love the convenience - I'm happy knocking one up out of the ingredients to hand while I'm working - and I don't care if it is a…

XMLPerformance Test App Extended To Compare 3rd Party Libraries There are a lot of options when it comes to parsing XML on the iPhone. The iPhone SDK comes with two different libraries to choose from, and there are several popular third party libraries available such as TBXML, TouchXML, KissXML,…