For whatever the reason Apple decided Mac users didn't need a built-in RSS reader and chose an even simpler method to browse multiple websites with Favorites and Sidebar. Yet, one of my favorite options is the Reader button in the URL Search Field. Browse to an article, click on the Reader option and... Read More »

Throughout my life I've tried to keep moving forward by implementing a series of idioms that fit particular situations. Here are a few and these are related to Apple's next big thing.Nothing improves without changeThere's no way around it. Grape juice becomes wine because it changes. Without... Read More »

Cupertino's favorite computer company just turned 40-years old this year and continues to be mired in the classic 'Apple is doomed' meme and suffers again from the 'not on Steve Jobs' watch syndrome.What's wrong with Apple?Middle age.In summary, and it should be obvious to anyone who follows... Read More »

Apple started life back in the 1970s and quickly became the hubris-filled garageband-like tech company that people loved or hated, though sometimes at the same time. My first foray into personal computing began with a CP/M card and VisiCalc on an Apple II in the very early 1980s, years before the Mac... Read More »

Competition among newspapers, television and radio station news outlets was once intense, made even more so in the digital age where any website anywhere can one up another either through a scoop or totally made up news. So it is with an article by Eric Jhonsa that I read on The Street website which... Read More »

Way back in the day, long before Apple turned iMovie into an app for the great unwashed masses who use that powerful app for YouTube and Facebook uploads, there was a simple way to grab a freeze frame still image from a video clip on your Mac. The feature was built in. All you needed to do was slide... Read More »

Microsoft has raked Apple's Mac, and to a certain extent, the iPad, over the coals of critical opinion thanks to the Surface devices which run full-on Windows and come with a touchscreen. Some critics argue that Microsoft's new Surface Studio-- a giant iPad-like device with a 28-inch touchscreen display... Read More »

Apple has a problem with so-called 'professional' Mac users. If you don't know what a professional Mac user really is, then you're in good company because the term has different definitions for different people.Way back when, back to the last century when Steve Jobs returned to Apple he redefined... Read More »

Here we are moving rapidly into the 21st century, that moment in space and time where tracking what we do is not only the domain of government; these days companies track you for profit. Other than going off the grid entirely is it possible to live a modern technology lifestyle of internet access and... Read More »

Technology seems to have invaded every facet of our lives in the 21st century. In the iPhone we have in our pockets what would have been a supercomputer just a decade or so ago; a single device that can do far more than PCs or Macs just a generation ago.News items of the past week include large... Read More »

You know it's coming, perhaps later than sooner, but soon enough we'll see the day the internet died. Someone with control over a few million DDoS bots managed to wreak havoc on a single DNS provider last week and that cause numerous outages throughout the U.S. last week; so severe that many major websites... Read More »

No, not that kind of Windows. Application windows. Despite the widespread use of Retina displays, we Mac users live in an age where the number of applications we use has increased but screen real estate has not. That means screen clutter. How do you get rid of the screen clutter of many different app... Read More »

One of the least understood new technologies of the 21st century isn't really a technology at all. It's the result of technology growth. For the sake of argument, let's call it the 'internet of things.'The internet of things is the internetworking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as... Read More »

Political correctness aside, Apple has a problem with Siri. The company's intelligent personal assistant is more of a bimbo or a doofus than useful and doesn't seem to have learned much over the years. She (the bimbo) or He (doofus; I'm not sure of the male equivalent of bimbo) simply has not learned... Read More »