There’s a general perception that Apple is greedy, that they will try to take you for every dime you have. Not all at once, of course, but in little increments. You buy a new Mac today, you’ll have to pay full price for an operating system upgrade every year or two. The Apple digital lifestyle […]

You know it’s hard to realize that not a whole lot has changed in the way you interact with your Mac, or PC for that matter. Some years back, when I wrote my first book about Mac OS X, I remarked how the interface of the first Mac operating system resembled the new one so […]

Someone once said that a dog biting a man isn’t news, but a man biting a dog is. When it comes to product reliability, you can’t just say everything is hunky-dory, because that would be what you ought to expect. Indeed, you should read this alarming title carefully, just to be sure what I’m getting […]

You’ve heard the claim: Mac users who crave the most powerful models have been waiting on the sidelines until their favorite image editing program, Adobe Photoshop, becomes Universal. At the same time, although a public beta is available now, the final version of the CS3 package won’t be out until spring. Now it’s perfectly true […]