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 […]

That 1984 commercial for the Apple Macintosh, directed by Ridley Scott and influenced by George Orwell’s “1984,” has become the stuff of legend. To some, it was the greatest TV spot ever. It may also be that Apple never, ever, scaled those heights again when it came to advertising, and that includes the original “Think […]

In the 1980s, when I first started using Macs, I made a practical decision. My employer was moving from traditional typesetting to desktop publishing. The Mac owned that market, and thus management bought a few systems initially as a test. Over time, however, the realized they had made the right choice, since the company was […]

In our last issue of the weekly newsletter, I complained about the latest update to Office 2001 for the Mac, particularly the Outlook email client. Although meant to provide a business-oriented replacement to Entourage, Microsoft’s previous email app, Outlook started life in a very shaky condition. Several updates, culminating with the recent Service Pack 2 […]