Canonical has come up with a replacement for the global menu bar, one of the most notable features of Ubuntu’s Unity desktop and also one of its most problematic.The global menu bar places application ...

There’s a major change coming to the Unity interface this April when Canonical releases Ubuntu 14.04, Trusty Tahr: Application menus are going back into their separate windows instead of existing in a ...

Mac OS X's application Help menu is extremely handy, searching for (and pointing out) any action within an application's title bar menu as-you-type. Even better? It's keyboard-shortcut handy, and as ...

When we met the Finder a few weeks ago, you learned that OS X offers a menu bar, as well as menus to populate it. In one of the many instances of “we’ll discuss this at a later time,” I mentioned that ...

While the menu extras in OS X are convenient, sometimes they can be occluded by the application or system menus. Here are some ways to manage them to prevent this from happening. Topher Kessler ...

[Editor’s note: The following review is part of Macworld’s GemFest 2009 series. Every day until the end of June 2009, the Macworld staff will use the Mac Gems blog to briefly cover a favorite free or ...

Ubuntu 15.04, code-named Vivid Vervet, launches today and it’s bringing the controversial systemd project along with it. The first difference you’ll notice about Ubuntu’s desktop are its “locally ...

In OS X you can conveniently create your own custom keyboard hot keys for menu commands; however, sometimes they may not work properly. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

The global menubar made a great deal of sense on a mono-tasking OS with a 512x320 display. But it isn't the 80's anymore! (No I am not bashing Apple - the behaviour (not just a faxsimily of the look) ...