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    The 10.6 Report: What About the Help System?

    April 22nd, 2008

    Back in the heady days of the Classic Mac OS, Apple had one lame-brained idea after another. Let’s not forget such schemes as QuickDraw GX, for example, which held out a lot of promise on paper but never realized its potential. But that was only one example of Apple’s failed technologies during the 1990s. Perhaps the […]


    Is Mac OS Classic Nostalgia a Bad Thing?

    March 27th, 2008

    I suppose we ought to pity those who have been around the tech universe for a long, long time, such as yours truly. I mean, some of the things we accepted as state-of-the-art in those days, such as 800K floppy disks and 100MB hard drives, seem downright primitive today. Please don’t get me started about […]


    Let’s Not Forget the Mac OS We Used to Know and Love

    December 19th, 2007

    I know that many of you are the proud owners of vintage Macs, dating back to the very first model, back in 1984. Of course, there’s not much they can do today with anything but the software and operating systems released when those computers were first built, or a few years thereafter. In moving to […]


    The Leopard Report: Does the Finder Make the Grade?

    December 6th, 2007

    For years, Mac users and tech pundits were repeatedly begging Apple to do something to fix the Mac OS X Finder. The arguments were all over the place, using such obtuse references as “spatial.” Spatial? Well that refers to the direct relationship between a Finder window and a single folder, very much in the fashion […]