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    The Tiger Report: Widgets? Who Needs Them?

    December 17th, 2005

    It seems strange that widgets would assume a terribly controversial status among Tiger’s features. After all, they seem benign enough. Just a press of a key, and you can check such things as the current temperature in one city or several, whether a package you sent has been delivered and the speed of your current […]


    The Tiger Report: Your Problem or Mine?

    June 4th, 2005

    I’m sometimes amused when I read a story that (you fill in the name of the company) should fix a problem with a product because of one or more irritating problems. Why should I be amused at someone else’s grief? Well, in many cases, the problem is specific to the person making the complaint, or […]


    Yet Another 10.5 Wish List

    May 28th, 2005

    A little less than a month since Tiger was released, I’m sure some of you aren’t satisfied and you’re looking for more. Of course the real changes may not come until the end of 2006, in time to trump Microsoft’s Longhorn, if that is ever released. So there’s plenty of time for Apple to consider […]


    The Tiger Report: I Come to Praise Tiger, Not to Bury It!

    May 14th, 2005

    After days and and days of glowing reviews, you had to expect that someone, somewhere, would criticize Tiger as something you should avoid. It all started with reports that Tiger had problems with VPN, the technique used by employees of larger firms to connect to their corporate networks. Not Apple’s own tools, but third party […]