Brenthaven Pro 15

At long last I have a laptop bag worth of holding my PowerBook. Not that there was a whole lot wrong with the Kensington Saddle Bag I’d been using, except that if you drop it you’re as likely as not to fracture your laptop. While the Kensington bag offers...

Among the things I don’t understand

…which are legion and hardly confined to the world of Macintosh, as any of my family or friends can attest. Nonetheless… 1. How does Steve Jobs’ announcement of Intel-based Macs in 2006 and 2007 do anything but “Osborne” the entire...

Making sense of Apple-Intel

My crystal ball remains cloudy regarding Apple’s future. (Indeed, after some of my more outlandish pre-MacWorld predictions some will argue my crystal ball remains in shards.) Nevertheless, I’m game for guessing what’s up with all those fascinating...

Items of note

Despite much enthusiasm for Mac OS X 10.4 (aka “Tiger”), even the 10.4.1 release hasn’t persuaded me that the time is right for dancing in the streets. The Mac help and fix-it sites continue to be littered with complaints of bugs and...

Menu items

If you’re like me—and let’s face nobody in their right mind is, but still—you enjoy populating your Mac OS X menu bar with little functional doodads that display information or allow easy control of certain computer functions. As a general...

Now some things that cost you money

I’ve been pointing out a few indispensable (QuickSilver) or near-indispensable (1-Click Answers) Macintosh programs over the course of the last few weeks. I thought this time around I’d focus on those items which I think it might be worth dropping a few...