The other day, from out of nowhere, comes the first beta of the new open source version of that famed email application, Eudora. In case you tuned in late, the publisher, Qualcomm, best known for for building cell phone chips these days, has given up on this venerable application. The project has been handed off [...]

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 [...]

It seems strange that widgets would assume a terribly controversial status among Tiger’s features. After all, they seem benign enough. Just a press of a key, and you can check such things as the current temperature in one city or several, whether a package you sent has been delivered and the speed of your current [...]