Rounding up some of the interesting technology news, tips and guides for the week of July 6th:
- An interesting chart shows that the ratio of PCs-to-Macs sold has dropped significantly over the last eight years.
- Look for a critical Internet Explorer 9 patch sometime next week.
- Cisco ran into some controversy regarding features added to their higher-end Linksys routers.
- At SecureList, details on a new malware threat targeting Mac OS X users.
- Amazon Web Services suffered some downtime last weekend as a result of severe weather, but some deeply buried bugs may have made matters worse.
- The rumor mill kicked into high gear this week with predictions about a potential iPad Mini.
- The Verge offered up a thorough review of Google’s new tablet, the Google Nexus 7.
- How-to Geek polled its readers about their favorite windows customization tricks.
- Microsoft offered some more detail about upgrade plans for Microsoft Windows 8.
- A new Kickstarter project offers a built-in backup solution for MacBook Pro and MacBook Air users.