Yes, everything old is new again. This week we hard the story about a certain Florida IT company that is evidently planning to sell home-built Intel-based computers that will supposedly run Mac OS X Leopard. Now before I tell you more about the alleged clone, let’s go back in time to the last decade and […]

From time to time, Steve Jobs has said that certain product features were added because of lots of customer requests. Notice he never mentions the press as being the source of such changes, but wouldn’t that still make sense? Wouldn’t you think that long-time journalists who have covered the technology industry for years ought to […]

Imagine if the world were turned upside down, and you were forced to use Windows everywhere, just as some of you are now at the office. Consider how things would be. You’d be forced, for example, to confront a “Wizard” to perform such basics as file sharing, or even configuring a printer. Worse, malware would […]

It’s not uncommon for a PC user to taunt Mac users over the relative inability to customize their computers, except in a limited fashion. After all, you can build a PC from scratch, if you have the free time, a little cash and endless amounts of patience. So, for example, you can go online and […]