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    The Apple Myths Keep on Coming

    September 25th, 2013

    So, without giving you a reference to the original source, and confuse you further, some tech media sites fell for the foolish claim that iOS 7 somehow makes your iPhone waterproof. Are you with me so far? Now implicit in such an absurd assumption is the belief that software will somehow render the hardware impervious […]


    Does Apple Want to Rethink the User Interface?

    December 16th, 2010

    All right, so we all know that Mac OS X Lion is going to incorporate some stuff from the iOS, but those few features are mostly special effects, rather than actual productive tools. Chief among the additions are Mission Control, a single window showing open apps and comments, Launchpad, which mimics the icon display on […]


    Living with Leopard: Book III — Backups for the Rest of Us

    October 31st, 2007

    As I’ve said so many times — and I bet some of you are bored — I’m a devout believer in the backup religion. Whenever I create mission-critical files, such as interviews for my two radio shows, I make two backups immediately. Take that literally. I will even postpone a bathroom visit to start the […]


    Waiting for Leopard Book IV: Backup Salvation

    October 23rd, 2007

    I feel like a broken record (you do remember records, right?) when I keep preaching the backup religion, yet when Apple said that roughly 26% of my fellow Mac users backup anything at all, I had to feel extremely disappointed. The news that only a fraction of that number routinely used backup software was even […]