Get simple desktop widgets for monitoring Time Machine. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Backup Status is a simple app that puts a Time Machine widget on your Mac desktop (or stows it away in your ...

Apple’s Time Capsule base station put a Wi-Fi access point, a network router, and a backup drive that tied into Time Machine all in a single box. That was its downfall, too: if the drive failed or ...

Imagine a clock that doesn’t have electricity, but its hands and gears spin on their own for all eternity. In a new study, physicists at CU Boulder have used liquid crystals, the same materials that ...

Windows utility program System Restore can reverse harmful changes made to your PC, computer expert Jim Foley explains. So if you install sketchy software or that "update" sends things downhill, start ...

Plus a simple tool that makes it better for laptops. Losing something you spent time working on, or photos that you can't replace, is devastating. You might think this is a problem of the past because ...