Phew! A warm welcome to my regular readers, now that I’ve had the misfortune of being visited by the worst of the rest of the web’s audience. I should have kno...

Sometimes I just can’t resist amusing myself when talking in a public forum. My wife recently got a MacBook, which marks the first time I’ve ever had a Mac in...

I would like to read the story about various Mac websites or periodicals dissing the Pentium in the past and then greeting today’s announcement with excitement...

One of the most recurrently popular posts I’ve written was on Real Alternative , an application that is infinitely more tolerable than Real’s official player...

When I used to work in music promotion, we talked a lot about pre-loading PCs or other devices with music videos and songs. Sippey did the best job of describ...

I’ll pay $100 to the first person who figures out how to make SubEthaEdit (worst name ever! I still call it Hydra) and OneNote service pack ‘s document-edit...

You heard it here first: Internet Explorer for the Macintosh is the new Netscape 4. On a more substantive Macintosh web development note, we know that OS X s...

One of the great things about working with true Cult of the Dogcow Mac afficionados is that they’re so brainwashed that they don’t even realize how amusing the...

"Moving Mac users onto a Unix-based system sounds like something Tim Burton would think of…"...

While criticizing Microsoft for a lack of innovation is certainly mostly legitimate, think of how cleverly they implemented the progression from DOS/Windows 3....

Interesting observation, now that I work in a mostly-Mac office… (I have the only PC) All of the Mac users have PC’s at home in addition to their Macs, which...

Mac or PC ? Of course a politician would answer like that....

Perhaps one of the best examples of accomodating user needs is the "Boss Screen", a rather clever and amusing tradition which dates back at least t...