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    Another Obligatory Microsoft Rant

    September 13th, 2007

    You know, lots of companies have “corporate communications” departments, where they examine the public impact of a policy or product, and choose the best way to handle it. This may be difficult where the news is unfavorable, because they have to somehow spin a bad story into a good one. But it all-too-often seems as […]


    A Memo to Professional Users: Stop Waiting!

    December 29th, 2006

    You’ve heard the claim: Mac users who crave the most powerful models have been waiting on the sidelines until their favorite image editing program, Adobe Photoshop, becomes Universal. At the same time, although a public beta is available now, the final version of the CS3 package won’t be out until spring. Now it’s perfectly true […]


    Apple: Please Stop the Silent Notifications!

    July 7th, 2006

    Some months back, a new iTunes feature caused havoc. When you clicked on the name of a track on your playlist, tunes of a similar genre appeared at the bottom of the iTunes window in a so-called “mini store.” Talk about havoc, because, in order to accomplish this magic, information about that selected song had […]