I just added a software upgrade to my Mac, and for the Nth time was suckered into one of my reluctant pastimes: staring at that progress bar. Yet it turns out that with a trick or two, that icon can ...

Zohaib is a freelance writer here at AP, and while you can catch him covering all sorts of things, his forte is actually software — system and app updates, bugs and issues, you name it. A Computer ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted Apple a patent for a web browser user interface asset that monitors download, rendering and output to display a more accurate representation of ...

New changes are coming to Chrome's desktop browser thanks to its new UI update that moves the download bar from the bottom to a tray users may access via the window's address bar. Now, get ready to ...

Google is working on a new download progress notification for the Play Store. The updated notification will show up to three recently downloaded apps and games. It will display the app’s name and icon ...

From the Dock, you can quickly check on a file's download progress from either the Launchpad or Downloads folder icon. Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Twiddling our thumbs while waiting for files to download is one of the great frustrations of our high-speed, technologically interconnected world. Computer scientists are unlikely to eliminate the ...