Now that the 10.4.1 update has spread across the planet, Mac users are weighing in on what it fixes, what it doesn’t fix, and the new bugs it creates. But in all this there is one large problem, and it appears to stem from Apple’s efforts to make the update as small as possible, at […]

Whenever something goes wrong with your Mac, you feel comfortable with an easy solution. Back in the days of the Classic Mac OS, the pat answer when your system began to crash more frequently than usual was to rebuild the desktop. So what did that accomplish? Well, the desktop database was used to store file […]

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 […]