Thanks to some great hardware design and some daringly surreptitious pricing agreements between Apple and the biggest publishers out there, Amazon’s Kindle e-reader has been feeling the pinch from the still unreleased iPad for the last few months, and it’s only going to get worse from here. Still, the Kindle has at least one advantage

PC Magazine - Amazon on Thursday announced the release of its Kindle e-book reader app for the Apple OS X.

Macworld.com - After months of anticipation, Amazon on Wednesday night released a beta of Kindle for Mac, software that lets you read Kindle e-books without the need for any special hardware (say, a Kindle). The free app for OS X 10.5 or later is available now in more than 100 countries, and joins the ranks of Kindle for iPhone, Kindle for PC, and Kindle for Blackberry.

On Windows, when youve finished using a particular piece of software, you close it with the X symbol in the top right corner of the application window. Many switchers assume that the window close control in the top left of an OS X application window does the same job: but thats not quite true. On Windows machines,

In the Hackintosh community, the MSI Wind is somewhat legendary for being the first netbook out there that could essentially run OS X out of the box, with all features working and no hardware hacking required. Now it looks like the venerable Wind has another Apple bragging point: with its keyboard ripped out and its

As a Mac gamer, I thought the recent announcement of the Steam digital games delivery service coming to Mac was very exciting. Even if Steam never becomes as popular on the Mac as it is on the PC, it will bring us, at the very least, some great Valve titles like Team Fortress 2, Left

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Early last month, Kevin Fox from Fury.com had noted that native iPhone apps such as Stocks, Calculator and Weather were conspicuously absent from the iPad HomeScreen and wondered if this was a pointer towards the availability of an OS X-like Dashboard that could possibly house all these "minor apps". Kevin's...

Starting tomorrow, Cult of Mac will be publishing a series of posts simply called 100 Essential Mac tips and tricks for Windows switchers. These will be short, simple posts explaining one thing at a time. Theyre aimed very squarely at people who dont know much about OS X. Complete beginners who have only recently started using

Just days after we reported on the launch of Alfred for OS X, along comes yet another keyboard-centric file and application launcher: Launchy. Launchy has a long history as an open source Windows application, doing much the same on that platform that Quicksilver did on OS X. It too supports plugins that greatly boost its usefulness. Right