Let's examine the challenges of running Windows-dependent PowerShell scripts from Linux and compares three practical approaches -- dual booting, WinBoat and Windows Server RemoteApp -- to maintaining ...

If you work in IT, chances are PowerShell is already part of your daily routine. You might use it to check a service, pull system information, or automate a task that would otherwise take several ...

Macworld reports that Apple’s December iPadOS 26.2 and macOS Tahoe 26.2 updates secretly doubled Wi-Fi speeds for compatible devices. The free updates enable 160MHz channel bandwidth on 5GHz networks ...

pearOS is now an Arch-based distribution. This Linux distro looks and feels like MacOS. You can install and use this OS for free. Pear OS has had a bit of history. It ...

Last year, X (formerly known as Twitter) killed its dedicated Mac app and removed it from the Mac App Store. At the time, the company pointed users to the iPad version of the app, which remained ...

PCWorld’s guide helps users navigate the overwhelming choice of approximately 250 Linux distributions by focusing on five main strains: Debian, Red Hat/Fedora, Arch, Slackware, and Gentoo.

Microsoft says Windows PowerShell now warns when running scripts that use the Invoke-WebRequest cmdlet to download web content, aiming to prevent potentially risky code from executing. As Microsoft ...

Homebrew is the best source for open source software yet, and makes installation easy. Here's what Homebrew is, how it works, and how to use a graphical interface with the service to make it even ...

Thanks to our old friend Ken Gruberman, who wrote on TidBITS Talk in response to “When Should You Upgrade to Apple’s OS 26 Releases?” (15 September 2025): If ...

Photo: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac The 12 free Mac apps in this roundup prove that the best software doesn’t need to cost you anything. These are the first apps I install on any new Mac, as they ...

In brief: Just over one billion active devices use Windows for their operating system, according to Microsoft. That sounds like an impressive statistic, but the company isn't as quick to point out ...