This site began in 1999 as Mac Night Owl. But when Apple began to embrace other consumer products, such as the iPod, I felt it was time for a change. Thus the switch to Tech Night Owl. I founded my tech radio show in 2002, and changed it appropriately, to Tech Night Owl LIVE. That […]

I’m pleased to announce that The Mac Night Owl has partnered with Dennis Sellers and Macsimum News to form a new media partnership. The full story is described in an article Dennis posted Wednesday morning. Basically, what this means is that we will work together not just on providing cutting-edge content to a wider audience, […]

Among all the crazy occupations anyone could dream of, I never thought I’d be running a tech commentary site on the Internet, not to mention those radio shows, of course. I actually got started in this crazy business in the 1990s, when I was writing books about — believe it or not — how to […]

I can tell you that I have not really had any difficulty living in this world, where digital music players are incompatible, tethered to proprietary music download services. Apple’s FairPlay DRM is really not so odious as some might think. So long as you don’t feel that a Microsoft Zune must connect to iTunes, or […]