September ends with a brand new version of OS X, a little earlier than originally expected. Seeded to developers in June, OS X El Capitan is the supposed bug fix update that cleans up the glitches and performance issues of Yosemite. But that’s a superficial view that is not entirely true. Although the number of new […]

In the early days, my first forays into the online world included searching for stuff using Gopher. You could even use it via the command line, so it’s really old. As browsers became more popular and the web became easier to use, Gopher fell into disuse, although it’s still being maintained by some mainstays. According […]

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 […]

While Apple only rarely releases official figures on OS adoption rates, there are ways to find out, roughly speaking, through third-party surveys of Web activity. The sampling may not be as exact, say, as a Gallup Poll, but the numbers ought to show rough trends. One of those tracking firms, Net Applications, analyzes data from […]