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    Newsletter #422 Preview: Are Chronic Leopard Bugs Getting a Fair Hearing?

    December 30th, 2007

    The other day I heard from a long-time friend, a former member of a forum I managed on AOL way back when. He has an engineering degree, and worked for many years as the chief sound engineer for a famous singer (now deceased), so he definitely knows his hardware. He’s also a Mac loyalist, and […]


    The Tiger Report: The Great Repair Disk Permissions Mystery

    May 21st, 2005

    Whenever something goes wrong with your Mac, you feel comfortable with an easy solution. Back in the days of the Classic Mac OS, the pat answer when your system began to crash more frequently than usual was to rebuild the desktop. So what did that accomplish? Well, the desktop database was used to store file […]