So Microsoft promises to do its best to work with its PC maker partners and somehow give Windows users more of a taste of the Mac experience. Once again, the Redmond giant isn’t so much interested in bettering Apple with its products. It’s only too happy to come a little closer, if it can. That […]

During this week’s episode of The Tech Night Owl LIVE, my friend Adam Engst, a noted Mac author and editor, was talking with me about the fact that Internet connections on the Mac generally work perfect out of the box, as it were. Except when they don’t. You have undoubtedly come across such situations. Say […]

Over 21 years ago, the first Mac appeared with the promise of become the first real computing appliance. Except for the keyboard and the mouse, it was self-contained and offered no expansion capability. Imagine a toaster oven that computes. In any case, it’s taken years for Apple to return to its original concept, and some […]