On Wednesday morning, I learned about a new release of the world-famous peer-to-peer telephony application, Skype, and promptly downloaded a copy. The key new feature was native support for Intel-based Macs. Without thinking about it, I launched the application, saw it bounce in the Dock a time or two and then it stopped dead. I […]

There are lots of tiny fixes, but nothing earth-shattering to report in the latest Tiger update that appeared in Software Update Monday afternoon. And, no, this isn’t the hoped for 30th anniversary surprise from Apple. But as usual, the enhancements may or may not apply to you, and even if they seem to, you’ll want […]

Yes, it’s several months away, but it’s not too early to continue my round of speculation as to what Steve Jobs will unveil during his WWDC keynote this year. Some of it you’ve heard already, but I’m going to add some additional elements that I think carry a high degree of probability. Well, at least […]

What if Apple had switched to Intel processors at the very beginning of the Mac OS X era? This may seem a perfectly absurd question, but stay with me now. From a practical standpoint, it may have had disastrous results for developers. Imagine the pain they underwent moving their products from Classic to Mac OS […]