As my son enters his junior year as an undergraduate majoring in both journalism and political science, one of his courses covers research. This may seem a trivial issue in a world where the word “Google” is a verb for online research. But it’s not always that simple, and someone who makes a living reporting […]

They sometimes say that the best salesperson believes their own pitch, so maybe it is true that when Steve Jobs first touted the Mac as a computing appliance, he believed it too. Alas, the first time a Mac crashed, the famed “reality distortion field” was breeched. Everything went downhill from there. For me, the most […]

In this day and age, if a theory is even vaguely possible, someone will provide a credible-sounding reason why it must be so. For example, now that a couple of relatively ineffectual viruses strains are found that can impact Macs, it means that Macs are no longer safe. Forget, for the moment, that there have […]

There’s a myth about every Mac OS installation, and that’s the easy upgrade. In theory, you should be able to jump from one major Mac OS X release to another simply by restarting with the installer CD and clicking a few buttons. The installer should take care of itself, so you ought to be able […]