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    The Dangers of the Paperless Revolution

    February 16th, 2015

    From the very first day personal computers and online access became relatively inexpensive and popular, there was the dream of a paperless revolution. In other words, rather than printing all your documents, including manuscripts and even financial records, you’d reduce them to ones and zeros and turn them into computer files. In the early days, you […]


    Did Apple Jump the Gun About Ditching Optical Drives?

    June 7th, 2013

    As an expectant audience of journalists, developers and fans of Apple Inc. await the announcements from the WWDC on June 10, some of the chatter revolves around new Macs. What kind of Macs? Well, with reports of diminishing stocks of the MacBook Air, that would surely a candidate. Other reports mentions a MacBook Pro with […]


    What Do You Do with Your Personal Computer?

    December 2nd, 2011

    I started using Macs in the 1980s not for recreation, but to get work done. I was involved in writing and desktop publishing. The latter had just debuted on the Mac; I was using them at the office, and needed to bring work home from time to time; I traveled with a regular supply of […]


    OS X Lion, Recovery and Reinstallation

    August 10th, 2011

    In Apple’s efforts to simplify installing Lion on your Mac, they’ve made things more difficult. First, you have to download a copy, at least for now. Later this month, Apple will release a USB-based installer at $69, a $40 surcharge. Now I’m not about to attempt to explain why Apple needs to charge more than […]