When Steve Jobs originally debuted Apple’s Time Machine app in 2008, it was presented as a solution to one of the biggest problems with using a personal computer. Most people never do backups, and Jobs quoted some terribly poor percentages for the time, in the low double digits. It wasn’t a surprise to me. Although […]

I’m not traveling as much as I used to, so I don’t use my vintage 2010 17-inch MacBook Pro all that much. I do take it out to recharge the battery and run OS updates from time to time when I’m not otherwise using it. My son, on his annual trek home from Madrid, now says […]

As Apple reportedly continues to test the first maintenance update for OS X El Capitan, a small number of glitches have shown up. I know of two on recent iMacs, and I realize such a tiny sampling of similarly configured hardware isn’t sufficient to reveal a trend. But I’ll tell you what I’ve seen and what I’ve discovered […]

With so much speculation about as to Apple’s next great hardware revolution — or minor refresh — the most important issue may be the state of the OS, not the gadgets. Without OS X and the iOS, Apple’s greatest achievements may be little better than any other tech gadget. It’s the software that provides the […]