In the old days of the Mac, back in the 1980s and 1990s, the suggestion that they were immune to computer viruses would have been laughed at. It wasn’t nearly as bad as on the Windows platform, but you definitely needed to run antivirus software. I learned that lesson the hard way in the late […]

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. […]

From time to time, I’ve suggested that Apple is missing the boat if it expects its customers to have to concern themselves about some of the routine maintenance chores required of Mac OS X. The Mac is supposed to be the computer that just works, but some functions require you to leave it on during […]