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Living with Leopard: Book X — But Can You Get Your Work Done Faster?

November 12th, 2007

Let’s set aside the pretty desktops, the transparent menu bar and menus, and even the controversial 3D Dock. That’s all window dressing and doesn’t do a thing to make your workday go faster, although I suppose a pleasant desktop view does convey an appropriate level of comfort.
I’ll leave it to the psychologists, however, to explain [...]


Living with Leopard: Book VIII — The Great Data Loss Controversy

November 7th, 2007

The worst thing a personal computer operating system can do, aside from crashing a lot, is to destroy your data. Indeed, a bug of this sort ought to be a show-stopper, but if you believe all those lurid headlines, such a defect was allowed to remain in Leopard when it was released.
If it sounds frightening [...]


Time for Apple to Reinvent the Personal Computer?

January 4th, 2007

You know it’s hard to realize that not a whole lot has changed in the way you interact with your Mac, or PC for that matter. Some years back, when I wrote my first book about Mac OS X, I remarked how the interface of the first Mac operating system resembled the new one so [...]