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    Living with Leopard: Book IX — The Professors of Ignorance Strike Again!

    November 8th, 2007

    You had to expect it was coming. After Leopard received gushing praise in most of the early reviews, a few tech pundits have come along and said it was nothing if not Apple’s worst system upgrade ever. How could Apple let this thing get into the marketplace, they claimed, without fixing the well-known serious bugs […]


    Living with Leopard: Book VIII — The Great Data Loss Controversy

    November 7th, 2007

    The worst thing a personal computer operating system can do, aside from crashing a lot, is to destroy your data. Indeed, a bug of this sort ought to be a show-stopper, but if you believe all those lurid headlines, such a defect was allowed to remain in Leopard when it was released. If it sounds […]


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    Living with Leopard: Book V — Second Week: Same as the First

    November 4th, 2007

    If you believe some of the things written about Leopard in the past week or so, you may consider it the buggiest system upgrade ever! But, as with all things of this nature, that impression is a huge exaggeration. During Leopard’s first weekend on sale, some two million copies were moved as retail upgrade kits […]


    Living with Leopard: Book IV — Spaces, Spaces and More Spaces

    November 1st, 2007

    I feel real lucky to be using a 30-inch display, because I need lots of space on my screen with which to get work done. Now I have to tell you that the first Mac I brought into my home (after working at an office with one for several years) came with the famous Apple […]