On Monday afternoon, Apple released a fixer-upper to address screen distortion and flickering problems with some 27-inch iMacs. So far, the response has been mixed. Some who had the problem report that the symptoms are gone, while others still report them. I never had the problem, but ran the update anyway without any adverse impact. […]

For lo these many years, I have been a staunch supporter of regular backups and I speak from personal experience. On one occasion, I took a brand new MacBook to San Francisco for Macworld Expo. The drive failed upon the first startup, so I had to borrow a note-book from one of my publishers and […]

In recent days, I’ve commented about some issues that have gotten a fair amount of press lately. Like some of the silly arguments in our presidential campaign these days about who is “elite” and who isn’t, I regard some of the most blatant spin that emerges from some tech pundits these days as completely wrongheaded. […]