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    The Leopard Top Secret Report: Give Me a Break!

    August 8th, 2006

    Perhaps the most important statement in an otherwise unsurprising keynote was the admission by Steve Jobs that some of the features of Leopard were still “top secret.” Now there may be a psychological factor here, to deliver the news in bits and pieces over the next seven to ten months of development time. But there […]


    Newsletter #346 Preview: The Night Owl Review: iEmulator 1.7.9

    July 17th, 2006

    It’s easy to regard your options to run Windows on a Mac as pretty much of a done deal. On a PowerPC model, the market is dominated by the sleek Microsoft Virtual PC. For Intel-based Macs, almost all the talk these days is focused on Parallels Desktop and Apple’s Boot Camp. But these aren’t the […]


    Newsletter Issue #345 Preview: What’s the Best Way to Run Windows on a Mac?

    July 9th, 2006

    My friends, although it’s gotten a lot of press of late, the truth is that you’ve been able to run Windows on your Mac for years. It wasn’t always a pleasant solution, however, not because Microsoft builds a mediocre operating system, which is largely true. But there were other reasons why you would find the […]


    The Case for an Educational Mac

    June 7th, 2006

    Years ago, when I first arrived in Arizona, I visited the Scottsdale school district, which, at the time, was a showpiece for Mac technology. It has since gone to Windows, but that’s another story replete with the usual amount of political byplay. In the end, they were hoodwinked into thinking that kids should be using […]