There are fascinating Mac rumors afoot these days, topped with the report that Apple’s next reference operating system release may arrive sooner than expected, perhaps as early as the first quarter of next year. The claim is based on a slide presentation delivered at a San Diego conference last week that featured Apple’s director of Unix […]

So I was visiting a long-time client the other day, restoring his data onto a new hard drive. Once I completed my tasks, he wanted to try out a few things for himself. First, he opened Mail, launched Address Book and brought up a contact entry with a load of names. After looking them over […]

Most of you have heard the news that Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo-based email account has been hacked, and the contents of her messages, including some family photos, are now being posted all over the Internet, and even being quoted in the mainstream media. Now I suspect this dirty trick was perpetrated more as a publicity […]

In recent months, you have to wonder whether Apple is losing its golden touch. I mean there are rampant reports of dropped call issues with the iPhone 3G, the rollout of .Mac’s successor, MobileMe, was particularly troublesome, and, add to all this, the press has only recent stopped talking about the health of Steve Jobs. […]