Is this the final Tiger update, or are more to come between now and October? That’s the question that some of you might be pondering as the dust settles on the tenth maintenance release for 10.4. According, to Apple, this particular release addresses a small set of problems that include: RAW camera support, mounting and […]

In interviewing author Kirk McElhearn for this week’s episode of The Tech Night Owl LIVE, we got to talking about whether Apple should look at some alternatives for distributing Mac OS X and some of its consumer-level digital life products. Today, you can buy Tiger for $129 for the single-user package. A .Mac subscription is […]

When I saw that recent issue of Consumer Reports containing a reader survey that lumps Mac note-books together with their PC counterparts when it comes to reliability, I felt serious concerns. Does this mean that Apple is losing its knack for great quality control? Certainly you can easily come to that conclusion. After all, the […]

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 […]