Ryan Faas - Author - PC World Australia

Stories by Ryan Faas

Article | 27/02/2009 Safari 4 browser beta is innovative, fast, fun

Apple's decision to offer a public beta of its new Safari 4 Web browser -- available for Mac OS X and Windows XP and Vista -- caught the tech world by...

Article | 30/01/2009 Will Apple's App Store change the desktop app market?

There's no doubt that Apple's iPhone has changed the landscape of the smart-phone industry, and indeed the mobile phone business as a whole. But one o...

Article | 2/01/2009 Apple's 5 biggest moments in 2008

Apple was a busy company in 2008. Over the past twelve months, the number of Apple-branded products on the street has become so broad and ubiquitous t...

Article | 15/12/2008 Making the iPhone a killer business device

After the release of the iPhone 3G (and the iPhone 2.0 update for first-generation iPhones), I reviewed the challenges facing corporate IT departments...

Article | 11/12/2008 Don't wait for Snow Leopard: Slim down, speed up a Mac now

Apple hasn't done much talking about Snow Leopard, the next-generation update to Mac OS X that's due to be released in 2009 (possibly within the first...

Article | 24/11/2008 Seven ways to push mail to the iPhone -- without Exchange

In <a href="http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9114427">Part 2</a> of my series on rolling out the <a href=...

Article | 15/10/2008 10 essential tasks to keep Leopard purring

One of the big selling points for Mac OS X Leopard is that it is a stable operating system that is not prone to crashes, freezes, corrupted or fragmen...

Article | 18/09/2008 Deploying the iPhone 3G for business, part 2

In Part 1 of this series, I looked at the mechanisms available to IT staffers to activate, deploy and configure iPhones in business environments. But ...

Article | 11/09/2008 Get Leopard and Windows to play nice

One of the major selling points for Macs and Mac OS X Leopard these days is their ability to work well in a largely Windows world. Apple offers two wa...

Article | 6/08/2008 Make Leopard leap: Time-saving tips for OS X 10.5

Whether you're writing a report, editing home movies and posting them to YouTube, or managing complex spreadsheets, you want to do it as quickly and e...

Article | 31/07/2008 Deploying the iPhone 3G for business, part 1

One of biggest stories behind the release of the iPhone 3G -- and the iPhone 2.0 firmware update for first-generation iPhones -- was the inclusion of ...

Article | 14/07/2008 The iPhone 3G was worth the wait

As I write this, my new white 16GB iPhone 3G is in the process of syncing about 10GB of music from my iTunes library. This is my second sync. Although...

Article | 9/07/2008 Secrets of Mac trackpad, from iBook to MacBook Air

The laptop trackpad has come a long way since Apple Inc. pioneered it 14 years ago on the PowerBook 500 series as a replacement for the trackball foun...

Article | 11/06/2008 You have an iPhone, should you buy a new one

Apple's second generation iPhone -- officially unveiled this week by Apple CEO Steve Jobs and dubbed the iPhone 3G -- is slated to hit the shelves of ...

Article | 26/05/2008 The new 17-in. MacBook Pro wins over a skeptic

There's something I have to say at the outset of this review: From the time Apple announced the first 17-in. PowerBook G4 models five years ago, I've ...