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    Newsletter #459 Preview: The iPhone 2.1 Update: Did Apple Finally Get it Right?

    September 14th, 2008

    Well, I have to play the cliché game again. You see, three times may indeed have been the charm for Apple’s efforts to repair the most irritating bugs in the current generation of iPhone software. The misery for Apple began on that fateful day when they tried to achieve three holes in one, simultaneously introducing […]


    Apple’s Missing Feature

    September 10th, 2008

    In talking with our Special Correspondent, David Biedny for this week’s episode of The Tech Night Owl LIVE, he presented a well-reasoned rant about a significant feature lacking in Apple hardware. Worse, this particular item can be found on competing music players, cell phones and PCs. What am I talking about? Well, on the iPod […]


    Newsletter #458 Preview: Twenty-Four Years Using Macs

    September 7th, 2008

    In 1984, I was working in a prepress plant, laboring over traditional cold (or photo-based) typesetting equipment. Instead of looking at a true representation of the printed page, the video display presented text and formatting commands. Yes, with a little practice, you could visualize the end result, more or less. However, these particular devices simply […]


    Newsletter #457 Preview: No, Apple Isn’t Going Downhill

    August 31st, 2008

    I still remember, nearly 20 years ago, setting up a brand new Macintosh system in my home. Up till then, I did most of my work at the office, but I had seen the future, more or less, and telecommuting was going to be a large part of it, so I had to be prepared. […]