In past years, the release of a new OS from Apple has meant a few weeks of aggravation, first with point-zero bugs and, just as important, the fact that loads of third-party apps just don’t work, or are partly functional. So it’s often a good idea just to wait till things settle down. But for […]

There’s no dispute that the lack of serious Mac refreshes this year can be blamed on Intel. The new Broadwell chip family, using 14 nanometer dies, is late to the party. The chips that Apple requires for Macs aren’t available yet, and that may push those refreshes off to 2015. So to make do, Apple […]

Aside from that offhand remark from a long-term client to Apple’s demonstration of OS X Yosemite — “Yuk! — the response to the developer and public beta releases has been mostly positive. Clearly Apple has worked hard to deliver reasonably reliable early seeds with most features mostly functional. It’s also stable enough not to come […]

Paranoia strikes deep in today’s society. Governments aren’t believed, and there is a conspiracy theory behind almost everything. Any significant world event has multiple meanings, and there is always the feeling we aren’t being told everything. Certainly profit-making corporations aren’t to be believed. The message, whatever it might be, is designed to entice you to […]