Once upon a time, Apple’s iTunes had a sidebar with colorful icons, the better to identify different categories and playlists. But some people at Apple decided we must all be color blind, so the icons were changed to shades of gray. The Finder inherited the same questionable simplicity. And then the iTunes sidebar went away; well […]

So OS X El Capitan has been out for nearly six months. So, therefore, it must be time to talk about its successor. Before I get started, I am not going to speculate as to which California-based scenic landmark Apple will choose next. In the scheme of things, it really doesn’t matter what name is selected, […]

Way back in the early 1990s, I discovered a fancy Open/Save dialog utility known as SuperBoomerang. Its main stock and trade was to rebound or return to the last used file in either dialog. There were other features that included such Finder specialties as renaming a file or folder, or moving it to the Trash. […]

Hardly a day passes where I don’t find yet another undiscovered treasure in OS X Yosemite. At a time when you wondered how Apple could possibly come up with another 200 new features or enhancements, it seems they’ve gone way beyond that. So just his week, Computerworld blogger Jonny Evans reported on 18 items that consist […]