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Looking back at Steve Jobs' career at Apple, he's produced and invented many insanely great products. But he didn't do it alone. What's the response of Apple's oft-overlooked co-founder to Jobs' resignation as CEO?

I gave my mom an iPad, hoping she'd accept it as her first computer. Her response was nothing I'd ever imagined.

My mother has never in her life used a computer or even a keyboard. Will I finally be able to get her online with an iPad?

For a movie about a Web 2.0 enterprise, The Social Network skimps on the technical details of Facebook. Why did writer Aaron Sorkin and director David Fincher do this, and what were the consequences?

Despite iTunes' many new features, including the Ping social network, users are having a hard time getting past the bland interface. Fortunately, each issue with the new aesthetic has a simple fix.

Apple's tablet computer is an invaluable kitchen appliance, as Stephen Colbert and Tom Dickson demonstrate.

With the recent addition of the San Diego Zoo, Google Street View has gone offroading. Now, coinciding with the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics, Google is hitting the slopes.

Yahoo's GeoCities, a free web-hosting service and once the Internet's third most visited domain, will be shutting down on Monday, Oct. 26, taking with it thousands of user homepages and decades of data. Fortunately, some historians are making sure GeoCities' content is not lost to the annals of time.

Smart keywords have been around since Firefox 1.0 and are a powerful but overlooked feature of the browser. They practically turn the address bar into a command line, allowing you to quickly access bookmarks and search favorite Web sites.

This early Macintosh Plus, given by Apple to the Star Trek creator, has boldly gone where no Mac had gone before. Now it can be yours -- if the price is right.

We know about the classic hardware and software that Snow Leopard leaves in the dust. But did you know you won't even be able to write to your old disks, either?

In this economy and job market, it pays to be proactive in keeping your professional profile up-to-date. On LinkedIn, this is often taken to mean seeking out recommendations from your supervisors, direct reports, and co-workers. But what good are recommendations if only people you already know can see them?

Star Trek has inspired generations of scientists and engineers. But the nature of science fiction leads us to ask, do sci-fi films get advanced technology right?

Computerworld's video gallery reveals a bounty of modern Easter eggs -- all inspired by a hidden message in a 30-year-old Atari 2600 game.

The cover story on today's Computerworld is "The PC of 2019". It looks at what life will be like a decade hence -- though the technology featured is already in consumers' homes.