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    Universal Apps: Is the Mac in Danger?

    February 14th, 2018

    Even though the Mac-oriented blogs are still dealing with the implications of the less-favorable review of the HomePod from Consumer Reports, I thought I’d take a breather. But CR has clearly learned that putting Apple in the headlines generates lots of coverage, especially if it’s negative. Now then: There have been published reports that, beginning […]


    macOS High Sierra and APFS: Cautions!

    October 6th, 2017

    A computer’s file system may not seem to be a terribly interesting topic of discussion, but it becomes interesting when there’s the potential for things to go bump. So along with the release of the first developer beta of macOS Sierra in June of 2016, Apple included a prerelease version of the Apple File System […]


    The Mac and AntiVirus Fear Mongering

    September 29th, 2017

    In the old days of the Mac, back in the 1980s and 1990s, the suggestion that they were immune to computer viruses would have been laughed at. It wasn’t nearly as bad as on the Windows platform, but you definitely needed to run antivirus software. I learned that lesson the hard way in the late […]


    Newsletter Issue #889: So is the Touch Bar Only the Beginning?

    December 12th, 2016

    Shortly before I began to write this column, I saw a TV ad for the new MacBook Pro. The only memorable part was the flashy deomonstration of the joys of the Touch Bar, and it is the tentpole feature of the new notebooks. The rest isn’t quite so important. It doesn’t matter that it’s thinner […]