Microsoft Messenger recently got updated to version 7.
Yahoo! has had a native messenger client for Mac with audio and video support for a while. You can use iChat on Mac OS 10.5 to connect to your Google Talk account; albeit with a catch - audio and video chat works only if your buddy on the [...]

Not everyone has an iPhone
A lot of us - either out of aversion to iPhone’s high price (in India at least) or out of our love for a tactile keypad/keyboard - still use a Nokia phone. Now Nokia makes some decent phones that often ship with a wonderful piece of software called the PC Suite [...]

Ruby 1.9.1 preview 1 was released yesterday. Though a binary distribution is not yet available for Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard), it is quite easy to install it from source. Firstly, make sure that you have Apple’s developer tools installed - they come on the same disk as Mac OS. Better still, download and install the [...]

It’s been a few years since the Indian Government has allowed citizens travelling abroad to bring in a new laptop duty free if they buy it overseas. So the question is, if you travel abroad or have friends traveling, is it worth it to purchase an Apple notebook abroad?
Below is a small matrix which shows [...]

Here are 3 little built-in apps that I recently discovered on the Mac OS. You can launch them from Applications/Utility or by typing in their names in Spotlight.
Grapher
Grapher clearly shows Apple’s historically strong presence in academia - especially sciences. Grapher, as the name implies, allows you to plot equations. You start Grapher, choose the type [...]