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    Mind Share Versus Market Share

    April 10th, 2007

    All through the years I’ve used Macs, I’ve been forced to endure taunts from people telling me that Windows was actually the way to go. You know the excuses, that the Mac was just a play thing and that the PC was the computer meant for “serious work.” Worse, there really wasn’t much Mac software. […]


    Newsletter #368 Preview: The Night Owl’s Favorite Mac Software

    December 18th, 2006

    I’m so consumed by getting my work done these days, that I seldom talk about the products I use to actually enable me to complete those tasks. That’s the purpose of today’s commentary. But, let me first explain that I am not the sort of person to add toys to my Mac. Call me dull, […]


    Do You Still Need Office for the Mac?

    December 7th, 2006

    Whenever I get a word processing document, I don’t have to look at the file extension or icon to know it’s probably in Word, or translated into that ubiquitous format in another application. A spreadsheet? Excel, of course, although things might be a little hazier with a presentation, since Apple’s Keynote does so many good […]


    The Mac Software Report: A Eulogy for PowerPC Applications

    November 17th, 2006

    This entire article may seem a tad premature, but I see the handwriting on the wall. You see, history is about to repeat itself. Back in the mid-1990s, Apple ditched the aging 68K chip in favor of the PowerPC. When native applications first arrived, they were offered in “Fat Binary” versions, which meant that code […]