It wasn’t too long ago when Apple lauded the Mac operating system as its flagship product. Whenever a new version was under development, it would be heavily demonstrated at a WWDC keynote, and, in the ensuing months you’d see more and more chatter about it until the highly-anticipated release event. Indeed, hundreds of you were […]

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 […]

It makes a lot of sense. You may have Tiger in your sights, but you held off upgrading because of the infamous point-zero curse. Curse? Yes, it’s an axiom that the initial release of any software, especially something as complicated and potentially temperamental as an operating system, is going to be so ridden with bugs […]

Some show business figures, and you know who they are, spend years staging final concerts. After a while it gets downright boring. Now I did promise that my first “Final” report on Panther would be the last, and I have to tell you I was very optimistic. I mean, it didn’t seem possible that Apple […]