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    Newsletter Issue #568: The Mac OS X Lion Report:
    Do You Really Want Things to be Difficult?

    October 18th, 2010

    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 […]


    The Mac OS 10.7 “Lion” Report: Fix File Management

    October 15th, 2010

    This is an article that will have a short shelf life. On October 20th, you’ll witness Apple’s first public demonstration of the next great version of Mac OS X, code-named Lion. That this may be the true “king of the beasts,” in keeping with the name, may mean that there will be huge changes. All […]


    The Mac OS X Report: Ten Years and One Month

    September 14th, 2010

    Although most of you didn’t get your hands on the Public Beta of Mac OS X until September of 2000, I actually saw it a month earlier. You see, I was working as a Contributing Editor for CNET in those days, and one of Apple’s PR people met me in San Francisco to deliver the […]


    Is the Mac OS Dying?

    August 31st, 2010

    You know that Apple is, nowadays, earning far more income from mobile products than from Macs. Right now, more people own products powered by iOS than powered by Mac OS X, so you begin to wonder where this all might be heading. Recently, Apple applied for a patent covering touchscreens on regular Macs, which would […]