Before Mac OS X took over, I wrote a book about Microsoft Office 2001. When Mac OS X arrived, Microsoft ported their office suite over, as Office X. Although they charged their standard upgrade fee for the suite, there were actually very few new features to talk about. One, as you recall, was “multiple selections,” […]

I remember when the first PowerPC-based Mac came out in 1994. Despite the promise of greatly-increased performance, my initial encounter was a huge let-down, mostly because there wasn’t a lot of software supporting the new processor. So just about everything, including large portions of the Mac OS, ran in 68K emulation, where performance was reduced […]

Ahead of next week’s expected release if the iPhone 2.0 software and a new version of this hot-selling smartphone, I have to tell you I’m reasonably happy with mine. When I got one, I didn’t make the decision lightly. In fact, I waited until February, the day before the 16GB version was released, actually, before […]

Over the years, one of the popular all-night radio shows, “Coast To Coast AM,” has featured guests who claim to be able to predict the future. At the beginning of the year, they’d present a set of predictions for the next twelve months, and, the following year, they’d look at the actual events and compare […]