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    Living with Leopard: Book V — Second Week: Same as the First

    November 4th, 2007

    If you believe some of the things written about Leopard in the past week or so, you may consider it the buggiest system upgrade ever! But, as with all things of this nature, that impression is a huge exaggeration. During Leopard’s first weekend on sale, some two million copies were moved as retail upgrade kits […]


    Living with Leopard: Book III — Backups for the Rest of Us

    October 31st, 2007

    As I’ve said so many times — and I bet some of you are bored — I’m a devout believer in the backup religion. Whenever I create mission-critical files, such as interviews for my two radio shows, I make two backups immediately. Take that literally. I will even postpone a bathroom visit to start the […]


    Living with Leopard: Book II — The Controversial Interface

    October 30th, 2007

    When some of you first saw the Leopard version of the menu bar, I bet there were a few grumbles about its near-invisibility with some screen backdrops. Indeed, I suppose Apple’s interface designers took the hint and made it less transparent as time passed. At least, that’s what it seems based upon what Steve Jobs […]


    Waiting for Leopard Book VI: A Preinstallation Checkup

    October 25th, 2007

    Across the world as I write this, tens of thousands — maybe hundreds of thousands — of copies of Leopard are on their merry way to Mac users. The tech press, and even some mainstream news outlets such as The New York Times, USA Today and The Wall Street Journal, have had the Golden Master […]