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    The Day After the 10.5.4 Update

    July 1st, 2008

    When it takes only a few weeks for Apple to get another maintenance update out the door, you just know there were problems with the original, perhaps serious ones. Take an issue involving Adobe’s CS3 software, which is an artifact of Mac OS 10.5.3. If you attempt to save or reopen a document on a […]


    Is Mac OS Classic Nostalgia a Bad Thing?

    March 27th, 2008

    I suppose we ought to pity those who have been around the tech universe for a long, long time, such as yours truly. I mean, some of the things we accepted as state-of-the-art in those days, such as 800K floppy disks and 100MB hard drives, seem downright primitive today. Please don’t get me started about […]


    Apple and the Great Time Capsule Conspiracy

    March 20th, 2008

    A lot can happen in a few weeks. It wasn’t so long ago that some of you — helped along by a few tech pundits with a conspiratorial bent — were absolutely convinced that the only way you could backup your data wirelessly with Time Machine would be to purchase a Time Capsule. This product, […]


    First Leopard Update Squashes File Move Bug!

    November 15th, 2007

    What’s the definition of a show-stopping bug? Well, how about something that can result in lost data? Certainly that ranks number one on my book, ahead of a problem that just makes your Mac crash. Well, I suppose the latter can also result in lost or corrupted files, but if you save regularly, and perform […]