So the news comes down this week that Adobe has at last updated Flash for the Mac to bring it closer in alignment to the Windows version at least in one key respect. There’s now limited support for H.264 hardware acceleration, but you have to wonder why it took them so long to get it […]

I can’t help but laugh at the constant carping by the nasty negativists that the rapid growth of the Android smartphone population is somehow going to hurt the future of the iPhone. The perception is that this is merely a repetition of the Mac versus Windows platform wars, where there can be only one. As […]

Up until this week, if you attempted to jailbreak your iPhone — which means unlocking it and making it possible to use apps from sources other than the App Store — you might be regarded as a rogue, maybe even a lawbreaker. You might wonder if Apple might actually show up at your door and […]

Some foolish blogger the other day wrote an inane piece claiming that I said that the Mac Pro would soon be history. For the benefit of those who haven’t read these columns regularly, and even for those who have, I have never made such a claim. I have said that there may be a time […]