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    Mac OS 10.5.7, Dumb Journalist Comments and Other Juicy Stuff

    May 13th, 2009

    The last Leopard update arrived in December, 10.5.6, and after lots of forewarning from the Mac rumor sites, 10.5.7 appeared Tuesday afternoon. Claims by Mac|Life magazine that it would definitely arrive last Friday, with no evidence to support that assertion, thus enter the growing realm of abject tech media failures. Although 10.5.7 only appears to […]


    The Night Owl Examines Some Time-Wasting Headlines

    March 30th, 2009

    You no doubt heard the report the other day, about someone cracking Apple’s Safari in just a few minutes and taking home $5,000 for their efforts. What you didn’t know, until you read the fine print of course, is that this particular person spent weeks investigating possible security flaws, and, no doubt, rehearsing the routine […]


    iPhone 3.0: The Philosophy of More!

    March 17th, 2009

    After reading all the wish lists for the next major release if iPhone software — and checking some of my own — it appears that Apple has surprisingly exceeded most everyone’s expectations, with one notable exception that I’ll mention shortly. Indeed, as Tuesday morning’s session with the media progressed at Apple’s corporate campus, the stock […]


    Is it Too Late for an iPhone 3.0 Wish List?

    March 12th, 2009

    Just when folks were settling down to figure out how best to deal with the complicated structure of the remote control on the new iPhone shuffle, along comes news that the iPhone 3.0 software will be previewed at a special Apple media event next week. To put this all in perspective, this would be the […]