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Newsletter #365 Preview: Do You Really Need that System Enhancement?

November 27th, 2006

The other day I read that there are over 4,300 Universal applications available, which means lots of choices for your Intel-based Mac. But many of these applications aren’t high-power productivity programs you might need for your work. In fact, some of the most important entrants, such as Adobe Photoshop, and Microsoft Office for the Mac, [...]


The Mac Software Report: A Eulogy for PowerPC Applications

November 17th, 2006

This entire article may seem a tad premature, but I see the handwriting on the wall. You see, history is about to repeat itself.
Back in the mid-1990s, Apple ditched the aging 68K chip in favor of the PowerPC. When native applications first arrived, they were offered in “Fat Binary” versions, which meant that code for [...]


Newsletter #359 Preview: They Still Don’t Know a Mac Can Do That

October 16th, 2006

During a presentation this past weekend before Apple Corp of Dallas, one of oldest Mac user groups around, I was asked several questions about whether certain applications were available on Macs.
One of the applications, Intuit’s personal finance product, Quicken, has been a mainstay on the Mac for years, as most of you know. But not [...]