Whenever I get a word processing document, I don’t have to look at the file extension or icon to know it’s probably in Word, or translated into that ubiquitous format in another application. A spreadsheet? Excel, of course, although things might be a little hazier with a presentation, since Apple’s Keynote does so many good […]

Mac users have a right to feel a little deprived when it comes to getting the latest and greatest graphics hardware at affordable prices. In fact, I remember when you actually had to spend several thousand dollars for something that bore the name of “Thunder something-or-other” in the hope of blasting pixels on your screen […]

The other day, I got a letter from a reader suggesting that now that it was so convenient for Mac users to run Windows, developers would quickly decide that it wouldn’t be worth the bother building software for the former. Instead, might as well let you all run the Windows version, and save on all […]

A lot of fuss was raised Monday about the impending end of support for Microsoft’s Mac version of Internet Explorer. However, the application really died a couple of years ago, and I suppose it’s taken a little extra time for some to notice. Now it wasn’t too many years ago that Microsoft owned the Mac […]