The other day, I wrote to an online columnist who, in a supreme fit of ignorance, suggested that you should hold off purchasing new Macs until the new models with Intel chips appear. Since I once worked for the same company he did, I thought he’d have the courtesy to respond, but I wasn’t surprised […]

Now that the 10.4.1 update has spread across the planet, Mac users are weighing in on what it fixes, what it doesn’t fix, and the new bugs it creates. But in all this there is one large problem, and it appears to stem from Apple’s efforts to make the update as small as possible, at […]

Whenever something goes wrong with your Mac, you feel comfortable with an easy solution. Back in the days of the Classic Mac OS, the pat answer when your system began to crash more frequently than usual was to rebuild the desktop. So what did that accomplish? Well, the desktop database was used to store file […]

After days and and days of glowing reviews, you had to expect that someone, somewhere, would criticize Tiger as something you should avoid. It all started with reports that Tiger had problems with VPN, the technique used by employees of larger firms to connect to their corporate networks. Not Apple’s own tools, but third party […]