Years ago, while at the office, I installed a copy of ClickChange, an early Mac OS interface changer. But it didn’t just fiddle with scroll bars and window designs. It would add sounds to specific functions. Of course, it wasn’t the most stable beast in the jungle, and I had more crashes that first day […]

All right, let’s face it: Apple is hot stuff. The stock price is soaring once again, and Wall Street is expecting, well, miracles. It’s not just the prospect that iPod sales will total 37 million as of the end of this quarter, if sales go as predicted. It also means that more people out there […]

Imagine you heard lots of hype about a certain new product, you were tempted, and finally you took the plunge. You brought one into your home or office, or perhaps both. And then you sat back, satisfied that you’d made the right decision, at least for a short while. Then things changed. You encountered unexpected […]

The practice of surveying people about everything imaginable has become an epidemic, and most of it means absolutely nothing. Even those carefully calculated polls by the likes of Gallup and other companies have “margins of error,” which means mistakes are possible. That explains why, when it comes to a very close election, the wrong candidate […]