Welcome to the latest edition of 'Ask the MACist', the column where I answer your Macintosh and other technology questions. Our question this week comes from Mark in Santa Monica. He asks: I'm new to the Mac and was wondering which web browser I should use. Safari, Firefox or something else? Which web browser to use can sometimes be a hard question to answer. The three major ones for the Mac that I use... more ›

Nobody likes Internet Explorer. Everyone likes Mozilla's Firefox. Although foolishly more people use IE than Firefox, it doesn't mean that they like it or know better. Recently, Microsoft launched IE 7, and wisely marketed two versions just for Yahoo and Google users. To advertise the new browsers, Yahoo put up this page and Google put up this page. See any similarities? According to Yahoo's Jeremy Zawodny and Techcrunch (who admits to being tipped to... more ›

Everyone in LA needs a website right? Just another tool of many to self promote your whatevers. Since we work on the web, all our friends ask if their web designer is the one for them? So instead of giving each of them a personal coaching session, we'll just post it here for your fun and their reference. more ›

this year LAist introduced "Ask the MACist" and now we give you... Ask the PCist! by Andrew Solmssen - send your questions to pcist at bitboy dot com Hey PCist, I love to do new and wonderful things with my PC, but I want to pay zip, nada, zero, zilch and bupkis for the privilege. What are some great free tools that will make my heart sing and my wallet happy? There's some amazing... more ›