So far at least, the Mac platform has been relatively free of malware, despite continued growth of Apple’s market share. Although some skeptics continue to rant about the inevitability of a major outbreak someday soon, it hasn’t happened so far. But all that presumes that most Mac users run their computers in the authorized fashion, […]

Consistent with all those rumors, Mac OS 10.6.2, the second Snow Leopard update, appeared Monday in Software Update on millions of Macs across the planet. The most significant fix, according to Apple, addressed “an issue that caused data to be deleted when using a guest account.” There were loads of other changes, including a fair […]

All right, you don’t have to possess an inside track at Apple or be a registered developer to pretty much know that more Snow Leopard maintenance updates are on the horizon. So I will readily accept the possibility that there is surely a 10.6.2 in our future, and it may even arrive by the time […]

Looking at the recent problems with the T-Mobile Sidekick smartphone and Microsoft’s Danger affiliate, it’s easy to forget that not all potential data loss problems can be blamed on the Dark Side of the computing universe. You see, Apple has had problems to contend with as well. Consider a certain Mac OS X upgrade, where […]