One of the things often criticized amount Mac OS X is the large number of interface inconsistencies. You have brushed metal, a so-called platinum look, and a variation or two. It may seem as if the Finder and Mail were designed by different teams for different systems. True, there is a set of interface guidelines […]

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 […]

For weeks, the rumor sites were overwhelmed with speculation about some sort of incredible bug fix update for Tiger. It would contain hundreds of changes, more than anyone would have the right to expect. It boggles the mind. Well, 10.4.3 appeared in my Software Update list yesterday afternoon. Officially it provides the following changes and […]

What can I say? It’s not as if the arrival of the 10.4.2 update wasn’t highly anticipated. It had been rumored for several weeks, and there were still some Tiger bugs that had to be fixed, but when it comes to the list of fixer-uppers, this one has most of the others beat by a […]