Long, long ago, someone referred to a specific attempt at reforming the state of the U.S. economy as “voodoo economics.” Maybe they were right, maybe they were wrong, but when it comes to the often-aggravating problems that occur with technology-related products, you sometimes wonder whether a little magic might be called for. Back on the […]

I used to laugh at Windows users. If you’re not acquainted with the other side of the computing world, maybe you don’t realize there’s an Add/Remove Control Panel that does precisely what the title signifies. There’s good reason to require a special method to remove an application in the Windows environment, because it normally doesn’t […]

The other day I read an article comparing the NeXT operating system to today’s Mac OS X. It is interesting to see the obvious resemblances, such as the Preview application, a Dock and a file viewer (they didn’t call it Finder, or risk an Apple lawsuit) that sported a column view feature. At the same […]