During this week’s episode of The Tech Night Owl LIVE, my friend Adam Engst, a noted Mac author and editor, was talking with me about the fact that Internet connections on the Mac generally work perfect out of the box, as it were. Except when they don’t. You have undoubtedly come across such situations. Say […]

It’s easy to attack the manufacturer of a product when features you expect are lacking. In the case of the iPhone, now that the 3G version has taken off like a rocket, you have to wonder why Apple didn’t have time to roll in some critical capabilities. First and foremost are the classic Cut, Copy […]

As the fallout from the failed MobileMe launch continues to spread, I was a little surprised, Wednesday morning, when I got an email at my mac.com email Inbox from Apple on the subject. Yes, folks, I will have to be dragged kicking and screaming to use me.com instead. After providing a brief summary about the […]

In 2007, for a time you had to feel that Apple was neglecting the Mac. At the beginning of that year, the famous Steve Jobs keynote concentrated very little on Mac-related developments, and mostly on the iPhone. A few months later, we learned that the next major reference release for Mac OS X, Leopard, would […]