As some of you know, I’m between cars. Well, just before Thanksgiving, I had a call from a client — let’s call him Robert — who asked me to come over to fix his Mac. We set Monday for the visit, and since he lived just a few minutes away, he arrived to pick me […]

This may come as a surprise to some of you, particularly if you’ve purchased a new car in recent years in the U.S. But the average age of a car on the road is 11.5 years. That means that it would be a 2003 or 2004 model, such as the VW Passat GLX I once owned. […]

When the iPod appeared in 2001, it originally came across as just an indulgence from Apple. All right, so you had 5,000 songs in your pocket It was easy to sync your music with iTunes via a FireWire connection, and the download speed was way faster than competing digital music players. But the iPod caught a […]

I was surprised to learn that most auto makers use their own facilities, or hired hands, to test for emissions and fuel economy. So it’s not that America’s EPA will necessarily come on over to a factory, test equipment in hand, to perform a direct inspection unless there was the need to do so. It’s not […]