When you live and work in a highly technical world, it’s easy to take things for granted. Take such common terms as the Finder and the Open dialog box. Elementary, my dear fellow Mac user, yet for millions out there who use Macs with reasonable flexibility, these terms are as foreign as calculus to a […]

In recent months, I’ve read some speculation about possible new features for Mac OS 10.5. I don’t think it’s fair to put any labels on some of these ideas at this point; it’s a little premature for that. But rather than examine possible gee-whiz features to see if I can do better than Apple in […]

I suppose you could call this one of my rain on your parade articles. It’s not that I take delight in looking at the negative aspects of a topic, but let’s look at the situation a little over 11 years ago, when Apple first adopted the PowerPC. Maybe you and I can learn a few […]

At the risk of stating the obvious, let me say that today’s commentary is based in large part on my personal experience with the Apple Broadband Tuner. The fact is that others have very different results to report, but I’ll be fair about it and mention those too. In any case, it doesn’t really matter […]