Before you dismiss this commentary as the rantings of another Mac fanatic, hear me out. I do not have a knee-jerk position about Microsoft. In fact, they can produce some really good products from time to time, when they allow for true innovation, which is not the stuff Bill Gates talks about. They have thousands […]

A British judge’s decision to allow Apple Computer to continue to use its logo on the iTunes Music Store, after a protracted legal battle, shows that the surviving Beatles are more out of touch than I expected. Now don’t get me wrong. In the 1960s, the four lads from Liverpool set the musical world afire, […]

When a friend asked me to help him install Boot Camp and Windows XP on his MacBook Pro, I wanted to make sure he understood that it wasn’t going to be cheap. I explained that, unless I spent a little time shopping around for him, he’d be spending around $200 for the Home edition and […]

Since Mac OS X 10.3 came out in 2003, I have been writing about the features I wanted to see in Tiger. Ever optimistic, I really hoped I’d see some of them in the final release. Even when most didn’t appear in the initial list, I remained hopeful. Now that all 220 features are out […]