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    The Lion Report: Just the Facts Please!

    July 15th, 2011

    There’s an amazing amount of information out there in the wild about Mac OS X Lion. Apple has offered a reasonable description of the new features, buttressed by a host of articles that cover the ins and outs, even ahead of the official release. It also appears that Apple isn’t being hard-nosed about clamping down […]


    The Lion Report: Doing Without

    July 5th, 2011

    According to published reports from both the Mac rumor sites and the mainstream media, Apple appears to have essentially wound up development of Mac OS X Lion. This is based on the claim that a Golden Master “seed” of Lion has been made available to registered developers. On the basis of those reports, you can […]


    In Search of a Millisecond

    January 26th, 2011

    To put things into perspective, don’t forget that a millisecond is a thousandth of a second. It takes 300 to 400 milliseconds for your eye to blink, and I don’t expect you can measure it on your stop watch. Back in the 1970s, I drove a mundane-looking but innovative car, a Mazda RX2, which featured […]


    Is Apple’s Hobby Losing its Hobby Status?

    December 22nd, 2010

    So the news comes this week that approximately one million of the new generation Apple TVs have been sold, raising hopes that this perennial hobby product that might, some day, shed that status. But do these initial sales signal a trend, or will the rate fall off sharply after the holiday season? Now at $99 […]