After this past summer’s iPhone frenzy, I suppose if you don’t see a story about this hot-selling gadget for more than a few days, you can speculate that the fever has died down. Or, perhaps more accurately, that people are too busy enjoying them to complain about them. Certainly it was a raucous cat-and-mouse game […]

One of the most famous statements in American filmdom came from Jack Nicholson, playing a corrupt general in Rob Reiner’s “A Few Good Men.” In one of the classic scene-chewing segments of that film, he announced to an angered Tom Cruise, portraying a JAG attorney, “You can’t handle the truth!” Indeed, I often think that […]

When Apple released its 10.4.10 update a while back, most of the initial comments were quite positive. But there were the usual spate of problem reports, such as inconsistent wireless networking, mysterious crashes; the usual stuff that accompanies such releases. But perhaps the most unusual symptom of all was a popping sound reportedly heard on […]