As you might expect, the tech pundits are now working overtime trying to guess what the next operating system for Macs will contain. Notice that I’m avoiding discussion in this column on whether it’ll be branded macOS, or Mac OS, or remain as OS X. I really don’t care all that much what it’s going […]

As most of you know, I’ve pretty much settled on Apple Mail for my email needs since the early days of OS X. I’ve struggled with Microsoft Entourage and its successor, Outlook for Mac, but never seemed to find myself comfortable with the bloated interface and lagging performance. With the Outlook 365 beta released to […]

Consider this very simple process, or would should be a very simple process. You want to add an account to Apple Mail — and it works essentially the same in all recent versions — so you start by entering your name,  email address and password. At this point, Mail determines whether your settings can be […]

The biggest complaint about Lion was, without doubt, the extent to which it was influenced by the iOS. Some referred to Lion as “dumbed down,” because of the changes in the look and (by default) actions of the scroll bars, not to mention Launchpad. What was Apple thinking? As to public response, Apple reports that […]