Review: MobileMe 1.1

MobileMe is a rebranded .Mac, but the service offers one stellar feature that may convince new people to subscribe. Some information can now be synchronized among devices as it changes.

The Portable Office: Work AnywhereWhen you’ve got co-workers scattered all over the country, you need a different kind of office software. Gina Trapani lists the tools she and her widely dispersed team use to run the Lifehacker blog.
Apple notes continued MobileMe service outageMobileMe continues to have problems for a small percentage of users, according to Apple.

Another way to set the desktop image
Learn a simple way to change your desktop image that doesn't involve the System Preferences panel.
Disable shadows in 10.5 window screen captures
Learn two ways to prevent 10.5’s (large) translucent shadow from being captured when you take screen shots of windows.
Change Excel's ‘edit in cell’ keyboard shortcut
Learn one way to change Excel’s Control-U shortcut to the easier-to-use F2 (which also matches the Windows’ shortcut).
Working Mac: Save time and type less
If you regularly mouse through menus to find the commands you want in OS X and your favorite apps, there's a quicker way: Kirk McElhearn explains how to take advantage of keyboard shortcuts.
Two text selection tricks
Learn how to select text not just character-by-character, but also word-by-word or paragraph-by-paragraph.

Inside the OS X 10.5.4 update
A quick peek at some of the other things fixed—and not fixed—in the 10.5.4 update.
When installing software is too simple
A story about a recent Mac switcher who had trouble installing Firefox 3 suggests to Rob Griffiths that some software developers could do a better job of offering clear installation directions.
XP’s window is about to close
Need Windows to run on your Intel-powered Mac via Fusion or Parallels? Then now’s the time to buy Windows XP before it disappears from retail shelves.
Confessions of a former e-mail packrat
After years of living in denial with a hopelessly cluttered e-mail inbox, one Macworld editor finally changes her ways and takes control of her inbox.
A closer look at Snow Leopard Server
Here’s a closer look at what Apple has revealed about the next major OS X Server update and what it means when the finished version arrives in a year or so.