Up till now, most of the hours I’ve spent in the Windows environment have been under the baggage of an emulator. Compared to the real thing, I’ve always regarded that as second-rate, not because of the quality of the operating system, but as a result of the performance drag when you’re not using a real […]

If you’re a fear merchant and get a charge out of spreading suspicion about Mac security, you have to be delighted. If you’re a Windows user wondering what the fuss is all about and whether a switch to the Mac is a good idea, you might want feel a little concerned. And certainly my fellow […]

When someone writes about “the good old days,” it ages them. It means they’ve been around long enough to have survived another era. For me, I still remember when you couldn’t get away with one-tenth of the nonsense that has become the stock and trade of today’s shock jocks, but when it comes to yellow […]

I applaud Apple’s decision to build Time Machine as part of Mac OS X Leopard; I really do. Far too few Mac users have any form of backup regimen, and even when things go badly, some of you still don’t learn from your mistakes, so it could happen all over again. But Time Machine, at […]