It’s hard to believe that the iPhone will be two years old in just a couple of months, and that, my friends, is the duration of a standard contract with a wireless carrier. Now I assume those of you who didn’t trade up last year still have your first-generation model in regular use, and that […]

Although the sales figures aren’t quite in yet, there’s a general feeling that Windows Vista isn’t really doing quite as well as Microsoft hoped, at least as far as early adopters are concerned. Unlike the arrival of Windows 95 to the chords of “Start Me Up” from The Rolling Stones, you didn’t have all that […]

When 2005 began, I doubt that many of you expected Apple would announce a switch to Intel processors by the middle of the year. At the time, the new products included a pair of product lines that Apple said it wouldn’t produce: The Mac mini and the iPod shuffle. So you knew from the get-go […]

A few days before Tiger was released, I got a call from a local physician asking if his early generation iMac could run 10.4. “Does it have built-in FireWire,” I asked, and he had to check. “No,” he said sadly, understanding the implications, that it was time to retire that faithful computer. Sure, that doctor […]