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    Mac Malware Revisited — Again!

    January 16th, 2018

    It is curious that the infamous CPU bug was identified by some members of the media as an Apple problem. Even though it impacted most CPU chips produced in the past 21 years — perhaps even the PowerPC — somehow it was strictly about iOS and Mac users facing danger when browsing in Safari, or […]


    macOS High Sierra: You’ll Hardly Notice

    October 5th, 2017

    At one time, a new version of macOS might have been a huge deal. Apple would announce over 200 new features, and you could always depend on having lots of changes. Some visual, some under the hood. With OS X, Apple would deliver major changes in each release before adopting a tick-tock pattern. So a […]


    Newsletter Issue #893: Ten Years of iPhones: The Night Owl Looks Back

    January 9th, 2017

    At an age where some might become a little forgetful, I remember it well: Steve Jobs taking the stage and announcing what ended up being the successor to the iPod, which offered your music library in your pocket. The iPhone also offered the Internet in your pocket; essentially a tiny personal computer masquerading as a […]


    Goodbye to Flash?

    December 2nd, 2015

    So it is beginning to seem as if Adobe has finally recognized the reality that Flash is yesterday’s news, and it’s time to move web developers along to using HTML5 instead. But let me start at the beginning. In the spring of 2010, Steve Jobs wrote one of his rare editorials, this one about the […]