After first reading the results of the silly survey in Consumer Reports that showed that 20% of Mac users had encountered viruses, I began to wonder just what they were talking about. Surely the people who conducted that survey knew better, right? I am not willing to believe, at least for now, that it was […]

It doesn’t take any special abilities to speculate that Mac developers around the world are busy this holiday season. No, not just buying presents for family and friends, but working on updates for their software to get ready for the MacIntel era. In case you’ve tuned in late, in order to be compatible with both […]

It’s hard to remember that long ago, but Apple’s Keychain was even around in Mac OS 9. The idea behind it is sensible, a single file that stores all your user passwords. You can lock it for even greater protection, and when it works, you don’t have to pay attention to it. When it doesn’t […]

While Microsoft labors to figure out whether more features need to be dropped to get Longhorn, its next version of Windows, out the door by the end of next year, it’s a little odd to realize that there have been six major releases of Mac OS X. Six? Well, the conventional wisdom has it that […]