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    Newsletter Issue #879: More Bits and Pieces About macOS Sierra

    October 3rd, 2016

    Nearly two weeks in, I continue to find macOS Sierra to be mostly a very satisfactory upgrade. As most of you know, I don’t care so much about Siri. It works, and I realize it’ll have value for those of you who are involved with using Siri on your iOS gear, but that’s not me. […]


    Some Early macOS Sierra Chatter

    September 23rd, 2016

    So as regular readers know, I updated my work iMac to macOS Sierra (the first Golden Master) last week, ahead of recording an interview for The Tech Night Owl LIVE. As I wrote at the time, I was foolhardy enough to do something that I might have avoided were I not in the tech business. […]


    Waiting for the macOS Sierra Download

    September 21st, 2016

    So, as promised, the newly minted macOS, Sierra, launched on Tuesday. With heavy loads on Apple’s servers, you may have had to wait a while for it to arrive. The downside of the free Internet service I’m getting in this place is that it’s not super-fast. So it took a grand total of six hours for […]


    Android, Security and Failed Promises

    August 18th, 2016

    Every year or so, Google promises to make the Android update system more reliable. As it is, when an OS update is posted, there is no guarantee your Android smartphone will ever receive it. Sure, if you own a Nexus device, it should arrive, eventually, but otherwise you may be left waiting and waiting. Suppose […]