To be sure, Mac users have had to undergo lots of change in the past twelve years. First there was that transition from 680×0 to PowerPC. It meant that applications had to be recoded to support the new processor technology, and the older stuff, even most of the operating system, ran in emulation. At first, […]

You know, I’ve been meaning to rant about this subject for quite some time now, but other matters kept getting in the way. No matter. Now is as good a time as any, and the target is QuickTime Pro. My inspiration for this column comes from a reader who installed Tiger, only to find out […]

How much junk mail do you get these days? Let me tell you that it used to reach several thousand a week for me, but the onslaught seems to have lessened somewhat since then. And I’m talking about what my ISP captures. A pretty hefty amount is still captured by the junk filters on my […]