Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about Photoshop alternatives, Windows and Mac file sharing, graphics problems in Snow Leopard and quickly ...

Microsoft Paint is getting a big update that introduces support for project files, letting you save your work-in-progress paint projects as .paint files.

The free doctape Viewer iOS app lets you open more than 80 different file types using an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. The app is very useful, but CIO.com blogger James A. Martin found a few drawbacks.