So we all understand the original version of the iPhone 2.0 software was mighty buggy. Applications had a propensity to crash far more often than they should, and that includes Apple’s own Mail and Safari. Even more irritating, text entry in Mail would sometimes become dog slow, and only a restart would set things right. […]

After four maintenance updates, with many more on the way over Leopard’s expected lifecycle — and I am not counting security fixes — it’s a sure thing that the worst ills are behind us. Typical of most Apple software these days, the original version was somewhat shaky, betraying evidence of a rushed release. Now I […]

When it takes only a few weeks for Apple to get another maintenance update out the door, you just know there were problems with the original, perhaps serious ones. Take an issue involving Adobe’s CS3 software, which is an artifact of Mac OS 10.5.3. If you attempt to save or reopen a document on a […]

What’s the definition of a show-stopping bug? Well, how about something that can result in lost data? Certainly that ranks number one on my book, ahead of a problem that just makes your Mac crash. Well, I suppose the latter can also result in lost or corrupted files, but if you save regularly, and perform […]