It’s very easy to forget that pretty much all the companies I write about and you read about in these columns are profit-making enterprises. So naturally they want good press, and will do what they can to get those favorable write-ups. At the same time, a real journalist, as opposed to folks who just regurgitate […]

As I write this, Mac OS X users don’t really have to worry about virus infections — at least for now. The ones that have been discovered have been test cases, proofs of concept, to show a potential vulnerability but not much more. Sure, one virus did sort of leap into the wild a while […]

Only a few days ago, I confessed that I was a regular user of Microsoft’s Entourage 2004. As an email client, I felt that it did everything I wanted. But I wasn’t totally happy, and maybe that’s my obsessive/compulsive streak. You see, it could be dog slow at times, even on the fastest PowerPC Mac. […]

It’s a sure thing that the Mac OS interface is very far from perfect. It’s also a sure thing that things can get worse and that features can be piled upon features without a lot of thought about integration and reach a point where utter confusion can result. Indeed, I’m sure of you feel that […]