In 1984, I was working in a prepress plant, laboring over traditional cold (or photo-based) typesetting equipment. Instead of looking at a true representation of the printed page, the video display presented text and formatting commands. Yes, with a little practice, you could visualize the end result, more or less. However, these particular devices simply […]

All right, folks, you can save up your spare cash (after filling the gas tank) for your new 3G-enabled iPhone. But the rest of the WWDC keynote more or less what you might have expected — and in some cases, less if you crave instant gratification. Ahead of the Steve Jobs keynote, it was interesting […]

All right, is the iPhone still extremely popular, or is demand declining? What about the iPod and the Mac, or even the Apple TV, which is due for a software revision shortly? If you believe some of the stories you’ve read, Apple is cutting back on production of the first two, increasing production on the […]

On Wednesday morning, I learned about a new release of the world-famous peer-to-peer telephony application, Skype, and promptly downloaded a copy. The key new feature was native support for Intel-based Macs. Without thinking about it, I launched the application, saw it bounce in the Dock a time or two and then it stopped dead. I […]