One of the criticisms often made of Windows-based PCs is that they can be very complicated to set up, once you get past the basics. In contrast, people who prefer Windows will remark that OS X just doesn’t offer the granular level of settings to which they are accustomed. Now, depending on what you expect […]

I can’t say I was surprised over your reactions to some of my suggestions about improving Mac OS X. After encountering a personal experience with one of those typical file permissions irritants, I got several responses with helpful suggestions to fix things. But that isn’t the point. I know that the right Terminal command or […]

There’s a fascinating article in Slate this week about the ultimate ideological split between Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. Where the original Apple computers were extremely open when it came to easy expansion and modification — a capability still retained by most current PCs — the Mac and its successors, with only a […]

In the old days of the Classic Mac OS, whenever something went wrong, the standard fix was to rebuild the desktop, check the hard drive with Apple’s disk repair application, and restart. That was the beginning and end of it, even if none of those remedies had anything to do with the problem. Indeed, I […]