Many of the reviews of Mac OS X Lion seem cut from the same cloth. The same 10 fundamental features, particularly the enhanced iOS veneer, are cited over and over again. How many times do you need to be told about all the great things you can do by tapping, swiping, and zooming on a touchpad […]

The news first come to listeners of The Tech Night Owl LIVE during the final portion of last Thursday’s episode. According to commentator Kirk McElhearn, a new potentially critical exploit had been discovered that could really impact Mac OS X users. Dubbed by some “AppleScript-THT,” it uses AppleScript to apparently exploit a vulnerability in the Apple […]

The other day, I had a brief exchange in a message board about operating system preferences and taste. The poster maintained that Windows is used on more than 90% of the world’s PC desktops because customers voted their preference, that they liked it better than all the rest. Now I suppose it’s easy to reach […]

Most of you know that applications run a little differently when you compare the Mac and Windows platforms. That and other differences are apt to cause some measure of confusion as folks switch to our favorite computing platform. Such minor issues as the Command versus the Control key for common shortcuts are easily mastered, and […]