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    The Case of the Multiple Email Inboxes

    February 16th, 2009

    So a few weeks ago, I moved our online content to a new server, one with dual quad-core processors, 16GB RAM and a lot more bandwidth. One big change I made was to stop funneling messages through a third-party service and move everything in-house, so to speak, so we had full control. Since all our […]


    Apple and Six Years to Operating System Parity

    February 3rd, 2009

    In yesterday’s column, I discussed the slow erosion of Windows, compared to the Mac OS and Linux. Clearly the former has the most to lose, and it goes to show that Apple’s ongoing Mac versus PC campaign is bearing fruit. Despite slowing sales at Apple Stores in the last quarter, 50% of the people who […]


    Is Apple Forgetting History?

    January 8th, 2009

    I think many of the people went to San Francisco to listen to Philip Schiller’s keynote at the Macworld Expo expected him to say something in observance of the fact that the Mac’s 25th anniversary is coming later this month. Who can forget, for example, that famous 1984 commercial, directed by none other than Ridley […]


    Newsletter #472 Preview: The Things That Continue to Go Wrong

    December 14th, 2008

    It’s fair to say that even the most successful companies on the planet make things that don’t quite behave as well as they should. Their management also makes their share of bad decisions, sometimes in subtle ways that aren’t so obvious. Certainly, few dedicated Mac users will lack large lists of features that they don’t […]