One of the important features of an application designed to run on a Mac is that it is “Mac like,” which conveys the feeling that it provides at least passing adherence to Apple’s interface guidelines. Of course, it’s important to realize that even Apple’s own products don’t always past muster here, but you do want […]

Would you like to read our daily commentaries on your Web-equipped mobile phone? Well, we’ve taken a big first move in that direction. If you have such a phone, and your provider doesn’t charge you an arm and a leg to do anything other than make and receive calls, we’d like you to give us […]

While our new site design has gotten a surprising number of compliments, there have been minor teething problems along the way, which our Webmaster, Brent Lee, has resolved with a few programming miracles here and there. One lingering problem remained, and that is with the latest versions of Opera. Our Archives display, for example, failed […]

The original Mac Night Owl site debuted in late 1999, and, in the ensuing years, I have made just one major redesign. The rest was relatively minor, until now. As much as you readers liked the original layout, it was a little difficult to implement from my standpoint. Archives and RSS feeds had to be […]