The Mac Night Owl Archives
- August 2008 (14)
- 03: Newsletter #453 Preview: Consumer Reports Again
Shows How Not to Convert PC Users to Macs (0) - 04: The Leopard Report: My Personal Petty Mac Annoyances (2)
- 05: Apple’s Unfortunate Economy of Words (5)
- 06: Memo to Steve Jobs: Don’t Stop with MobileMe! (1)
- 07: Another Look At Apple Support Problems (2)
- 10: Newsletter #454 Preview: Here We Go Again: Revisiting Mac Versus PC Prices (0)
- 11: The Tea Leaves Report: A Look at Apple’s Major Product Transition (3)
- 12: So is the iPhone 3G Really a Defective Product? (14)
- 13: Apple War Stories Revisited (2)
- 14: The Plight of the Apple Early Adopter (8)
- 17: Newsletter #455 Preview: The Death of Power PC
Support is Coming Sooner Than You Think! (0) - 18: The Apple Report: Yes, Most of the Time it Just Works! (0)
- 19: Is Steve Jobs Really Milking the Macintosh? (14)
- 20: Revisiting iPhone Reception Problems (1)
- 03: Newsletter #453 Preview: Consumer Reports Again
- July 2008 (23)
- 01: The Day After the 10.5.4 Update (10)
- 02: Another Look at the 10.6 Value Equation (14)
- 03: The Snow Leopard Report: Selling Updates Without New Features (7)
- 06: Newsletter #449 Preview: Should Apple Take the
Gloves Off and Go After Microsoft For Real? (0) - 07: Apple’s New Products: Is the Excitement Waning? (6)
- 08: Is Your Mac.com Address An Endangered Species? (12)
- 09: Apple’s Prospects: What a Difference a Year Makes! (2)
- 10: iPhone 2.0: Direct From New Zealand! (9)
- 13: Newsletter #450 Preview: The iPhone 3G: Three Times a Charm (0)
- 14: Just Another iPhone 3G Report: A Million Customers Can’t Be Wrong! (4)
- 15: Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Clone Your Mac (1)
- 16: Sometimes Apple Admits It’s Wrong (3)
- 17: The iPhone Report: So Where Is That Critical Feature? (3)
- 20: Newsletter #451 Preview: Will Mac Misconceptions Never End? (0)
- 21: The Inevitable Comparison: Apple’s Financials and the Health of Steve Jobs (5)
- 22: Apple’s Financials: Finding a Way to Turn Good News to Bad (5)
- 23: The MobileMe Wrecking Ball (4)
- 24: Apple Without Steve Jobs (29)
- 27: Newsletter #452 Preview: The Windows World Still Doesn’t Get It! (0)
- 28: So Why is Wall Street Still Down on Apple? (4)
- 29: Is Something Wrong with Apple? (6)
- 30: Apple Walks the Tightrope (4)
- 31: The Personal Computer Chaos Theory (3)
- June 2008 (23)
- 01: Newsletter #444 Preview: Will Apple Lose its Cult Following? (0)
- 02: Can Microsoft Be Saved? (11)
- 03: Are You Ready to Ditch .Mac? (17)
- 04: The 10.6 Report: Time for Apple to Drop PowerPC Support? (16)
- 05: The iPhone Report: A Few Irritating Problems Persist! (0)
- 08: Newsletter #445 Preview: Can Apple Update the OS Too Quickly? (0)
- 09: The WWDC Report: Apple’s Stock Prices Dip Ahead of the Keynote (6)
- 09: The WWDC Report #2: Is MobileMe a Big Letdown? (20)
- 10: The WWDC Report #3: Is Snow Leopard An Admission that Leopard is Flawed? (10)
- 11: The WWDC Report #4: The Products Apple Doesn’t Talk About (10)
- 12: The WWDC Report #5: A Few Possible Sore Points (13)
- 15: Newsletter #446 Preview: Apple Looks Ahead, While Microsoft Looks Back (0)
- 16: Is It Time to Dump Your PowerPC Mac? (11)
- 17: The Night Owl’s Firefox 3.0 First Look (10)
- 18: Another Look at the Steve Jobs Longevity Dilemma (2)
- 19: A Look at Apple’s Scheme to Take Over the Windows Desktop (9)
- 22: Newsletter #447 Preview: Is it Time to Stop Talking About Snow Leopard? (0)
- 23: The New Mac OS X Trojan: Are the Naysayers Right After All? (12)
- 24: The 10.7 Wish List: Time to Revisit Your Hopes and Dreams (5)
- 25: Missing in Action in iPhone 2.0 (8)
- 26: The Snow Leopard Report: How About Free? (23)
- 29: Newsletter #448 Preview: Yes, Many Businesses Are Using Macs (0)
- 30: Apple and the Cloners: Round Two (13)
- May 2008 (21)
- 01: The MacBook Pro: Two Years On (3)
- 04: Newsletter #440 Preview: The Mac Versus PC Hardware Wars Continue (0)
- 05: Apple Needs to Open Up! (5)
- 06: Is a Home-Built Mac a Waste of Time? (5)
- 07: The iMac Report: Apple Left the Proprietary World a Decade Ago (6)
- 08: A Fast Look at the Apple Hardware Upgrade Equation (4)
- 11: Newsletter #441 Preview: How Apple and Google Plan to Destroy Microsoft (0)
- 12: Consumer Reports Flips a Finger Again at Mac Users (16)
- 13: More Reasons for Microsoft to Love Apple (4)
- 14: Apple Begins to Succumb to Entertainment Industry Demands (3)
- 15: Do You Really Need Microsoft Office? (14)
- 18: Newsletter #442 Preview: Are Mac Styles in a Rut? (0)
- 19: Just Another Mac Hardware Reliability Rant (9)
- 20: The Illusion of the Cheap Mac (13)
- 21: The Case of the Missing iPhone: Did Apple Screw Up? (7)
- 22: So is Safari Safe? (3)
- 25: Newsletter #443 Preview: Don’t Believe Everything You Hear or Read! (0)
- 26: The Mac Troubleshooting Report: Let’s Forget the Voodoo (2)
- 27: The 10.6 Report: An Unexpected WWDC Surprise? (20)
- 28: The 10.5.3 Report: How Could Apple Make So Many Mistakes? (13)
- 29: The Argument Against Major Mac Redesigns (10)
- April 2008 (22)
- 01: Five Bogus Reasons to Ditch the Mac! (10)
- 02: The Apple Attack Dogs Become Desperate (3)
- 03: The Search for the 21st Century Killer Applications (4)
- 06: Newsletter #436 Preview: When is the Best Time to Buy New Apple Hardware? (5)
- 07: The Apple Wish List (6)
- 08: Do Browser Wars Make Sense? (6)
- 09: Apple Versus Microsoft: The Great War Enters a New Phase (12)
- 10: The Great Search for Mac Software (9)
- 13: Newsletter #437 Preview: Tell Me Apple: Why Did You Do That? (0)
- 14: The Leopard Report: Slower than Windows XP? (13)
- 15: The Mac Clone Controversy Rears Its Ugly Head (9)
- 16: A Fast Look at Bogus Apple Inc. Issues (0)
- 17: When Apple Says No, Sometimes They Mean Yes! (2)
- 20: Newsletter #438 Preview: Maybe Macs Are Appliances After All (0)
- 21: The Leopard Report: Almost Six Months Later (20)
- 22: The 10.6 Report: What About the Help System? (17)
- 23: The Apple Earnings Report (15)
- 24: The Apple Security Report: Safari Needs Better Protection! (14)
- 27: Newsletter #439 Preview: Apple Goes Up, Microsoft Goes Down (4)
- 28: Don’t Tell Anyone: Apple Quietly Updates iMac! (7)
- 29: Apple and the Enterprise: A New Focus? (15)
- 30: Why the iPod is Not a Walkman (3)
- March 2008 (23)
- 02: Newsletter #431 Preview: So Apple is Succeeding or Failing or Something (1)
- 03: Those Computers Look Nice, But Can You Tell Them Apart? (8)
- 04: The Great Hardware Pitch: The Midrange Tower Revisited (20)
- 05: Apple Say’s Everything’s Great — Wall Street Says Not So Fast! (4)
- 06: The One Paragraph iPhone SDK Report (1)
- 06: Leopard’s Spaces — Take a Hike! (10)
- 09: Newsletter #432 Preview: So Apple Is After the Enterprise After All (3)
- 10: The iPhone SDK: A Look at Apple’s Gatekeeper Status (3)
- 11: The Leopard Report: Still Working Great — But! (15)
- 12: Microsoft and Mozilla Updates: One Minor, One Awesome! (3)
- 13: The Night Owl’s Solution to the Microsoft/Yahoo Furor! (6)
- 16: Newsletter #433 Preview: A Brief Look at The Night Owl’s Software Toolbox (0)
- 17: The Leopard Report: It’s All About Customer Satisfaction (15)
- 18: Safari 3.1: Not Quite the Ultimate Browser (10)
- 19: Forget the Recession: Mac Sales Soar! (13)
- 20: Apple and the Great Time Capsule Conspiracy (15)
- 23: Newsletter #434 Preview: Welcome Once Again to the Crazy World of Misconceptions (0)
- 24: Reality Check: The Great Safari for Windows Installation Scam (14)
- 25: Yes, Microsoft Loves Apple’s — Money! (7)
- 26: The 10.6 Report — Making Up for Apple’s Mistakes (15)
- 27: Is Mac OS Classic Nostalgia a Bad Thing? (14)
- 30: Newsletter #435 Preview: The Night Owl Examines the Great Mac Security Fraud (7)
- 31: Microsoft’s Mojo Declines Inexorably (9)
- February 2008 (23)
- 03: Newsletter #427 Preview: Apple’s Golden Opportunity (0)
- 04: Apple and the Great Product Demand Game (2)
- 05: Introducing iPhone 1.5 (6)
- 06: The MacBook Air: Designed From the Top Down? (4)
- 07: Is Microsoft Paying Lip Service to the Mac? (17)
- 10: Newsletter #428 Preview: The iPhone and An Owner’s Disconnect (0)
- 11: Microsoft, Yahoo and Google: Apple Needs to Stay Above the Battle! (2)
- 11: The One Paragraph 10.5.2 Report (1)
- 12: The Leopard Coming-of-Age Party (7)
- 13: The Leopard Report: Why So Buggy? (10)
- 14: The Great Time Machine Conspiracy (10)
- 17: Newsletter #429 Preview: The Mac Is On Top Again! (0)
- 18: Microsoft: The Long Road Downhill (18)
- 19: The Wireless Phone Report: The Dawn of a New Age — Maybe (2)
- 20: The Leopard Report: Another Perspective on Troubleshooting Issues (2)
- 21: Keyboards: From Half-Ergonomic to Full Ergonomic (6)
- 24: Newsletter #430 Preview: Apple and Microsoft: Where’s the Trust? (0)
- 25: Be Very Careful About Troubleshooting Sites (6)
- 26: The One Paragraph MacBook and MacBook Pro Speed Bump Report (10)
- 26: The Mac Hardware Report: How Important Are Looks? (3)
- 27: Yes, It’s the Network (0)
- 27: Is it Easy to Tire of Your Mac? (7)
- 28: Apple Discovers the World of Damage Control (3)
- January 2008 (24)
- 01: The Night Owl’s Raves and Rants for 2007 (6)
- 02: How Will Apple Cope with Success? (7)
- 03: Office 2008 for the Mac: A Short Look at a Sprawling Suite (13)
- 06: Newsletter #423 Preview: The Night Owl Presents: A User’s View of the iPhone (0)
- 07: Update! The Night Owl’s Guaranteed Incorrect Macworld Predictions (8)
- 08: Is Apple Moving Away From Pro Computers? (10)
- 09: The Mac Value Equation Revisited (7)
- 10: The Leopard Report: The Danger of Too Many Prompts (8)
- 13: Newsletter #424 Preview: A Realistic Look at Apple’s Innovation (0)
- 14: Not About the Expo: Does Anyone Remember CES? (2)
- 15: The Bullet Point Macworld Expo Keynote Report (15)
- 15: Expo Update: The MacBook Air — Definitely NOT a Desktop Replacement (5)
- 16: Expo Update #2: Everything is Not Coming Up Roses! (8)
- 17: Expo Update #3: Wall Street Isn’t Impressed (10)
- 20: Newsletter #425 Preview: Another Look at Lies, Ignorance and All That Stuff (1)
- 21: The Leopard Report: Successful But! (3)
- 22: Apple’s Best Quarter Ever, But the Sky is Falling (2)
- 23: Reconsidering Apple’s Future (3)
- 24: Is Apple Playing a Psychological Warfare Game? (9)
- 27: Newsletter #426 Preview: Turning Good News Into Bad (5)
- 28: Why Apple Should Ignore the Press (5)
- 29: What About iPhone 2.0? (11)
- 30: Is Apple Overselling the Mac? (4)
- 31: Why I Won’t Buy the MacBook Air (20)
- December 2007 (22)
- 02: Newsletter #418 Preview: I’m Ticked Off By Shoddy Tech Journalism (12)
- 03: The Leopard Report: My Pleasure is Your Pain (8)
- 04: So Is All Quiet on the iPhone Front? (0)
- 05: So Is Leopard Really Slower? (31)
- 06: The Leopard Report: Does the Finder Make the Grade? (7)
- 09: Newsletter #419 Preview: CompUSA Self-Destructs (4)
- 10: Apple’s Success: The Vultures Are Circling (20)
- 11: The Leopard Report: Another Look at 10.5 Bugs (20)
- 12: Another Spotty Leopard Hatchet Job (4)
- 13: Forget the Apple Death Watch! How About a Microsoft Death Watch? (15)
- 16: Newsletter #420 Preview: Apple and Microsoft Deserve Hardball Questions (0)
- 17: Is Leopard a Failure? (35)
- 18: The Mac Troubleshooting Technique Rarely Mentioned (2)
- 19: Let’s Not Forget the Mac OS We Used to Know and Love (14)
- 20: If You Think Leopard is Buggy, Consider This! (23)
- 23: Newsletter #421 Preview: The Browser Wars:
Take the Acid2 Test and Call Me in the Morning (0) - 24: The Real Losers in the Think Secret Settlement (12)
- 25: The Leopard Era Report: The Tiger Disconnect Persists (13)
- 26: The U.S. Cell Phone Industry is Stuck in the 1950s (2)
- 27: Will Macs Soon Change? (5)
- 30: Newsletter #422 Preview: Are Chronic Leopard Bugs Getting a Fair Hearing? (5)
- 31: I Agree: Apple Should Ignore the Enterprise! (8)
- November 2007 (22)
- 01: Living with Leopard: Book IV — Spaces, Spaces and More Spaces (5)
- 04: Newsletter 414 Preview:
Living with Leopard: Book V — Second Week: Same as the First (1) - 05: Living with Leopard: Book VI — I’ll Never Go Back! (11)
- 06: Living with Leopard: Book VII — So How Many Bugs Does Leopard Really Have? (8)
- 07: Living with Leopard: Book VIII — The Great Data Loss Controversy (6)
- 08: Living with Leopard: Book IX — The Professors of Ignorance Strike Again! (0)
- 11: Newsletter #415 Preview: Who Needs Leopard? What About Mac OS 10.6? (3)
- 12: Living with Leopard: Book X — But Can You Get Your Work Done Faster? (10)
- 13: The Mac OS 10.6 Wish List: Number Two — Bring Back Classic Features! (43)
- 14: The Leopard Report: Is Apple Ignoring Vintage Mac Users? (15)
- 14: The One Paragraph Mac OS 10.4.11 Report (19)
- 15: First Leopard Update Squashes File Move Bug! (2)
- 18: Newsletter 416 Preview: The Downsides of Mac Tips and Tricks (0)
- 19: Is Windows Vista a Train Wreck? (13)
- 20: The Great Firefox Bug Controversy (2)
- 21: So What About an Apple HDTV? (1)
- 22: The Leopard Report: Your Problem Isn’t My Problem (15)
- 25: Newsletter #417 Preview: Is This Really the End of the PC Era? (4)
- 26: How Can Journalists Be So Wrong About Apple? (4)
- 27: The Leopard Report: It Looks Pretty, But Can You Get Any Work Done? (8)
- 28: A Troubling Look at Web Standards and Desktop Publishing (33)
- 29: Here’s One Reason Why Microsoft Can’t Sell Windows Vista (5)
- October 2007 (24)
- 01: Is Microsoft Office 2008 Too Little, Too Late? (21)
- 02: On the PC Industry’s Planned Obsolesence Conspiracy (10)
- 03: Is Microsoft Dooming the Zune? (12)
- 04: Should Apple Remove the Gloves? (13)
- 07: Newsletter #410 Preview:
Is This What Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit Means by “Innovation”? (1) - 08: Is Apple Losing its PR Edge? (11)
- 09: Apple Hardware Remains Best in the Industry (7)
- 10: The Mac User’s Dilemma: Saying “I Told You So”! (8)
- 11: Why Aren’t There Any Lawsuits About This? (10)
- 14: Newsletter #411 Preview: Apple and Microsoft: Who Gives Better Excuses? (0)
- 15: The Return of Navigator to the Mac: Do We Need Another Browser? (7)
- 16: The One Paragraph Leopard Arrives on October 26 Report (5)
- 16: Waiting For Leopard Book I: Kiss Your Old Mac Goodbye! (14)
- 17: The iPhone SDK: Forced or Preordained? (8)
- 18: Waiting for Leopard Book II: The Real Marquee Features (4)
- 21: Newsletter 412 Preview: Waiting for Leopard Book III: Just a Point-One Upgrade? (9)
- 22: Apple Smashes Money Records Again! (19)
- 23: Waiting for Leopard Book IV: Backup Salvation (13)
- 24: Waiting for Leopard Book V: Should You Just Wait? (7)
- 25: Waiting for Leopard Book VI: A Preinstallation Checkup (19)
- 28: Newsletter 413 Preview: The Night Owl Special Report: The Leopard Review (4)
- 29: Living with Leopard: Book I — Ignore the Fear Merchants! (17)
- 30: Living with Leopard: Book II — The Controversial Interface (14)
- 31: Living with Leopard: Book III — Backups for the Rest of Us (6)
- September 2007 (21)
- 02: Newsletter #405 Preview: The Night Owl’s Spam Fighting Efforts Revisited (0)
- 03: A Look at the Great iMovie Controversy (14)
- 04: Is the New Eudora Bait and Switch? (12)
- 05: Memo for People Who Bought an iPhone Before September 5 (20)
- 06: Here’s a Better Way to Reach Out and Touch the iPod (11)
- 09: Newsletter #406 Preview: Apple Converts Rocks Into Gold Once Again (1)
- 10: How About Suing Wall Street Analysts Over Apple Snafu (16)
- 11: The Entertainment Industry Still Doesn’t Grok Apple (15)
- 12: Not All Cable TV and Internet Experiences Are Bad (9)
- 13: Another Obligatory Microsoft Rant (9)
- 16: Newsletter #407 Preview: Memo to PC Users: Why Do You Take All This Abuse? (4)
- 17: The Smartest Move Bill Gates Ever Made! (9)
- 18: Making Stories Out of Nothing At All (8)
- 19: Do We Really Need Software Upgrades? (10)
- 20: Hopes and Dreams for the Leopard Finder (27)
- 23: Newsletter #408 Preview: Time to Talk About Leopard’s Successor Yet? (2)
- 24: Should Microsoft Be Forced to Unbundle Windows? (31)
- 25: Will Apple Be Forced to License Mac OS X? (22)
- 26: Why Apple Isn’t Microsoft (17)
- 27: Microsoft Meets Its Own Worst Enemy: Microsoft (2)
- 30: Newsletter #409 Preview: Reality Check: Is Apple At War With iPhone Hackers? (6)
- August 2007 (23)
- 01: Here’s the Truth: Apple’s Products Aren’t Perfect! (1)
- 02: Are There Really Mac Secrets? (3)
- 05: Newsletter #401 Preview: Lies, Lies and More Lies (1)
- 06: Getting an iPhone Isn’t Always So Easy, Folks! (2)
- 07: The Mac Report: No Surprises From Apple (13)
- 08: Apple’s Stealth Product Introductions Revisited (7)
- 09: Can Apple Be Trusted? (6)
- 12: Newsletter #402 Preview: I Go to Visit the Apple Store (1)
- 13: Please Be Nice to Customer Support People (9)
- 14: Flash! (0)
- 14: Consumer Reports Screws Up Again! (6)
- 15: Another Rant About the Microsoft Paper Tiger (7)
- 16: Does Apple Really Listen to You? (24)
- 19: Newsletter #403 Preview: Can You Depend on Product Reviews Anymore? (1)
- 20: Why Mac Users Love the Products and Hate the Company (18)
- 21: Is Apple Being Too Secretive? (7)
- 22: Can You Depend on the Big Sites to Run Your Business? (10)
- 23: Why the Mac is Poised for the Mainstream (3)
- 26: Newsletter #404 Preview: The Windows Genuine Disadvantage (4)
- 27: Does Apple Hate the iPhone Hackers? (0)
- 28: The Almost Final Leopard Upgrade Pitch! (9)
- 29: Lies, and the Liars Who Tell Them (16)
- 30: Mac and PC Price Comparisons Revisited: Eight Cylinder Versus Four Cylinder (14)
- July 2007 (23)
- 01: Newsletter #396 Preview: So What’s Really Wrong With the iPhone? (1)
- 02: The iPhone Feeding Frenzy Report: Safe to Talk About Macs Again? (7)
- 03: Is it the Problem or the Fix that Counts? (1)
- 04: Is Apple Gouging iPhone Customers? (11)
- 05: Do You Have a Dream Macintosh? (7)
- 08: Newsletter #397 Preview: Is Apple Getting a Fair Shake From the Press? (0)
- 09: Memo to Apple: Please Don’t Discontinue Cheap Macs! (7)
- 10: No, Folks, Most of You Don’t Need an iPhone! (9)
- 11: The Wall Street Kool-Aid Drinkers Do It Again! (2)
- 12: How Not to Learn What Apple is Doing! (3)
- 15: Newsletter #398 Preview: When is the Best Time to Buy a New Mac? (6)
- 16: The Night Owl’s Pet Peeves for 2007 (9)
- 17: First Look: VMWare Fusion 1.0 RC1 for the Mac (6)
- 18: Another iPhone Rant: Did Apple Forget Call Quality? (13)
- 19: Microsoft’s Problems Mount (12)
- 22: Newsletter #399 Preview: Isn’t It Too Early to Review Leopard? (1)
- 23: Mac OS 10.4.10: The Worst System Update Ever? (56)
- 24: Welcome to the World of Snap Judgments (1)
- 25: The Apple Financials Report: Let’s Not Get Carried Away (5)
- 26: Mac OS X Poised for Tremendous Growth? (10)
- 29: Newsletter #400 Preview: Who Is It So Hard to Be Easy? (3)
- 30: More iMac Conventional Wisdom — Maybe (8)
- 31: The Apple Music Report: Where’s the Rest of the Industry? (2)
- June 2007 (21)
- 04: Newsletter #392 Preview: First Look: Parallels Desktop 3.0 Release Candidate (3)
- 04: The State of Mac Reliability: Where Do We Stand? (13)
- 05: The Return of Netscape Navigator: Does the World Need Another Browser? (11)
- 06: The Leopard Report: Is it Time for a Subscription Program? (10)
- 07: The Apple Product Report: Too Much Hype? (1)
- 10: Newsletter #393 Preview: Attention Mac Users: Microsoft Makes Good Stuff Too! (10)
- 11: The WWDC Report: No New Hardware Folks! (12)
- 12: The WWDC Report: Apple’s iTunes Trojan Horse (7)
- 13: The WWDC Report: On the World of Diminished Expectations (4)
- 14: The Leopard Report: Is Apple Regaining What it Lost? (29)
- 17: Newsletter #394 Preview: Is Apple Taking Us Back to the 1990s? (2)
- 18: The iPhone Report: Release Version 2.0 Before 1.0 (0)
- 19: The Leopard Report: Ready to Retire the G3? (11)
- 20: The Browser Report: A Look at the Safari/Internet Explorer Conspiracy Theory (1)
- 20: The One Paragraph Mac OS 10.4.10 Report (3)
- 21: The Leopard Report: I Bet You Haven’t Heard Everything! (8)
- 24: Newsletter #395 Preview: Do Macs Make Sense for Business? (4)
- 25: They Know Not What They Do (4)
- 26: The Apple Hardware Report: Aren’t You Ready for a New Mac Yet? (17)
- 27: Why Can’t I Shut Up About the iPhone? (12)
- 28: Another Look at Apple’s Stealth Fighters (2)
- May 2007 (23)
- 02: What Apple Can Learn From The Tonight Show (18)
- 03: Apple Says They’re Green and Getting Greener (11)
- 04: Is Apple Lying to You? (7)
- 07: Newsletter #388 Preview: A Religion for All Mac Users: Backups (1)
- 07: Memo to Apple: Please Keep the Honor System (8)
- 09: The Leopard Report: What About Rolling Back an Update? (13)
- 10: Are You Sick of the iPhone Yet? (7)
- 11: The Leopard Report: Another Pitch for Intelligence (10)
- 14: Newsletter #389 Preview: Do Windows Users Really Love Windows? (6)
- 15: The Apple Music Report: Would You Buy Beatles Albums One More Time? (10)
- 15: Apple’s 2007 Lineup: The Excitement Underwhelms (5)
- 16: What if Your Internet Domain Was Hijacked? (6)
- 17: Welcome to Microsoft’s Newest Sales Tactic (14)
- 20: Newsletter #390 Preview: The Consequences of Posting Fake Stories (2)
- 21: Is Google the Next Microsoft? (2)
- 22: When Will Apple Deliver A Decent Mouse? (25)
- 23: Memo to SoundExchange: Please Get a Calculator (0)
- 24: Are You Taking Too Much for Granted? (0)
- 28: Newsletter #391 Preview: Will Mac Users Accept Being Normal? (0)
- 29: Is Mac Security Going Down the Tubes? (10)
- 30: Do You Really Want to Write a Blog? (6)
- 30: The Mac Music Report: Buy, Buy and Buy Again! (4)
- 31: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs: Friends or Foes? (0)
- April 2007 (22)
- 02: Newsletter #383 Preview: Despite Everything I Still Like Microsoft (2)
- 02: Steve Jobs One-Ups the Music Industry Again! (15)
- 03: The Leopard Report: Will Boot Camp Change? (7)
- 04: The Mac Hardware Report: The Eight-Core Odyssey (2)
- 05: Apple Sales Confusion and Other Silliness (7)
- 09: Newsletter #384 Preview: On the Meaning of the Phrase:
“Indistinguishable From the Original Recording” (0) - 10: Are Desktop Email Applications a Dying Breed? (38)
- 10: Mind Share Versus Market Share (3)
- 11: The Mac Hardware Report: A Look at the Eight-Core Value Equation (9)
- 12: The Leopard Report: Everything You Expected is Wrong! (22)
- 16: Newsletter #385 Preview: The Mac Becomes a Low-Key Survivor (4)
- 16: The Leopard Report: Exaggerating the Impact of 10.5’s Delay (17)
- 17: The DRM-Free Music Conspiracy (3)
- 19: More Apple Sales Confusion (12)
- 20: HP’s Curious Printer Setup Confounds Devoted Mac User (17)
- 23: Newsletter #386 Preview: More Mac Security Monkey Business (2)
- 23: The Windows User’s Dilemma: They Hear But Do Not See (3)
- 25: Steve Jobs Lets His Cohorts Take the Fall (5)
- 25: Apple Vanquishes Expectations One More Time! (0)
- 27: Despite Record Earnings, Microsoft is Shooting Itself in the Foot! (11)
- 30: Newsletter #387 Preview: Do You Really Want to Rent Music? (0)
- 30: Another Night Owl Rant: Why Do They Always Get it All Wrong? (13)
- March 2007 (22)
- 01: The Leopard Report: Why Rush? (10)
- 02: The Fear Factor: Apple Versus Microsoft (10)
- 05: Newsletter #379 Preview: Seven Hours and Counting: A Windows User Confesses (0)
- 06: The Leopard Report: A March Release? No Way! (12)
- 07: Dell Reaps What it Sows (9)
- 08: Memo to Apple: How About Updating Your Displays? (7)
- 08: The Leopard Report: Time for One More Wish List (12)
- 12: Newsletter #380 Preview: Is Bill Gates Sane and Putting Us On or What? (0)
- 13: Reality Check: Does Apple Really Want to Conquer the Living Room? (3)
- 14: After Mac OS 10.4.9 Comes — What? (6)
- 15: The Mac Switching Report: The Application Quitting Dilemma (14)
- 16: The Leopard Report: Playing the Great Waiting Game (14)
- 19: Newsletter #381 Preview: No, Apple Isn’t Giving Up the Mac! (0)
- 20: The Truth Revealed: Microsoft Can’t Compete! (14)
- 21: The Leopard Report: Can We Dump Interface Silliness? (15)
- 22: The Mac OS X Virus Report: Why the Disconnect? (37)
- 23: A Look at the Apple Naming Problem (7)
- 25: Newsletter #382 Preview: Half an AirPort Extreme Review (0)
- 27: Update! The Leopard Report: Spring Forward, Fall Back! (4)
- 28: It’s the Little Things that Irritate! (32)
- 29: The Fear-Factor: Yes, Microsoft Has Lost its Clout! (3)
- 30: The Fear-Factor Revisited: Time for a Microsoft Death Watch? (16)
- February 2007 (19)
- 02: Mac OS X Versus Windows Vista: A Very, Very Informal Comparison (4)
- 05: Newsletter #375 Preview: Microsoft and the Ministry of Silly Decisions (1)
- 06: More Silly Decisions from Microsoft (8)
- 07: Apple Inc. and Apple Corps: It’s All About the Money (5)
- 08: Steve Jobs and the DRM Blame Game (3)
- 09: The Leopard Report: Please Make QuickTime Pro Free! (35)
- 12: Newsletter #376 Preview: The Leopard Report: Should You Put Off Buying a New Mac? (0)
- 13: The Leopard Report: Apple’s Golden Opportunity? (10)
- 14: The Apple Music Report: Are You Ready to Live Without DRM? (4)
- 14: Vista and Mac OS X: Will Apple’s Sales Dip? (14)
- 16: The Mac Night Owl’s Alternate Reality: Welcome to a DRM-Free World (0)
- 18: Newsletter #377 Preview: The Rumor Report: Do You Really Believe that Stuff? (0)
- 19: Realtor Services Give Microsoft Internet Explorer the Heave-Ho (7)
- 21: The 802.11n Reality Check (5)
- 22: The Leopard Report: Running Late? (9)
- 23: Running Windows on a Mac: Let Me Count the Ways (7)
- 26: Newsletter #378 Preview: Problems, Problems, Problems All Day Long (0)
- 26: Camino 1.1 Beta: Not Quite a Firefox Clone (10)
- 27: Parallels Desktop Reaches Another Milestone (7)
- January 2007 (25)
- 01: Newsletter #370 Preview: More Products that Compel Rather than Repel (0)
- 02: Stop! Every Apple Product is Defective! Well, Maybe Not (2)
- 02: A Macworld Expo Preview: Expect Disappointment (6)
- 04: Time for Apple to Reinvent the Personal Computer? (6)
- 05: The Mac Hardware Report: A Real iPod Video? Not for Me! (10)
- 07: Newsletter #371 Preview: Taking a Long-Term View of Apple Computer (0)
- 09: Not About the Expo: The Ticking DRM Time Bomb (4)
- 09: The Night Owl’s Instant Keynote Commentary — What Happened to the Mac? (9)
- 10: Macworld Expo #2: The Almost Non-Mac Keynote (7)
- 10: Macworld Expo #3: The Worst Thing About the iPhone (12)
- 12: Macworld Expo #4: Apple’s Bad Hair Day (4)
- 15: Newsletter #372 Preview: The Leopard Report: Apple’s Forgotten Operating System (0)
- 15: The Ongoing Apple Death Watch (4)
- 17: Apple Has Fans & Microsoft Has Shills (14)
- 18: The Apple Financial Report: Wall Street Fooled Again! (4)
- 19: Is There a Dark Side to Apple’s Financials? (11)
- 22: Newsletter #373 Preview: Apple and the $1.99 Controversy (0)
- 23: The Leopard Report: Last Call for Feature Requests? (4)
- 23: The Leopard Report: Mac OS 10.5 and iLife — Happy Together (18)
- 24: The Leopard Report: Welcome to the Insane Asylum! (11)
- 26: The Apple Hardware Report: Is the iPhone a Disposable Piece of Junk? (10)
- 29: Newsletter #374 Preview: Welcome to the Politically Incorrect World of Godaddy (1)
- 30: The Spam Report: The Night Owl Gets it Under Control (0)
- 31: Forget the iPhone: Let’s Return to the Mac! (3)
- 31: The Speculation Department: How Apple Tried to Trick Rumor Sites! (3)
- December 2006 (21)
- 01: Let’s Not Get the Wrong Idea About Apple (5)
- 04: Newsletter #366 Preview: Parallels Desktop Becomes More Cohesive (0)
- 05: The Tiger Report: They Have Problems, But I Don’t! (10)
- 06: How Microsoft Can Compete with Apple (5)
- 07: Do You Still Need Office for the Mac? (17)
- 08: The Leopard Report: Last-Minute Wishes (5)
- 11: Newsletter #367 Preview: The Tiger Report: Overcoming Inertia (1)
- 12: The Leopard Report: Don’t Change Too Much (4)
- 13: New Thunderbird Beta Raises the Bar (4)
- 14: The Numbers Game: Are iTunes Sales Soaring or Falling? (6)
- 15: Lies, Lies and More Lies (6)
- 18: Newsletter #368 Preview: The Night Owl’s Favorite Mac Software (0)
- 19: The Browser Wars: Why Did They Forget Printing? (13)
- 19: Remaining Proactive Against Possible Malware (2)
- 21: Mac Reality Check: Welcome to the World of Spin (3)
- 22: Weekend Rant: The Tech Industry Needs the Apple Touch (1)
- 25: Newsletter #369 Preview: The Night Owl’s Ongoing Email Odyssey (0)
- 26: Don’t Believe the Experts! (2)
- 27: More Expert Losers (7)
- 28: Some Nice Things About 2006 (2)
- 29: A Memo to Professional Users: Stop Waiting! (7)
- November 2006 (22)
- 01: Is PowerPC Software an Endangered Species? (5)
- 02: Mac = Cool; PC = Boring (11)
- 03: Thirty Million Lines and Counting: Is There No End to Software Bloat? (18)
- 06: Newsletter #362 Preview:
The Leopard Report: Should Apple Tinker with the Interface? (4) - 07: Welcome to the World of Fake Mac Viruses (12)
- 08: The Mac Hardware Report: A Warning to Apple (8)
- 09: Reality Check: Do Mac Troubleshooting Sites Help or Hinder? (0)
- 10: Are Mac Fans a Dying Breed? (17)
- 13: Newsletter #363 Preview: How I Got Liberated with IMAP (0)
- 14: The Case of the ATI Graphics Card and the Missing Instructions (1)
- 15: Is Zune Getting Too Much Attention? (4)
- 16: The Tiger for Intel Report: The Case for Rosetta (4)
- 17: The Mac Software Report: A Eulogy for PowerPC Applications (11)
- 20: Newsletter #364 Preview: Apple: Empowering Regular People (0)
- 21: Memo to Microsoft: Shouldn’t the Best Product Win? (1)
- 22: On the Dangers of Overwrought Expectations (0)
- 23: The Mac Hardware Report: Ready to Ditch Your PowerPC Yet? (15)
- 24: Do You Want to Rent Music? (19)
- 27: Newsletter #365 Preview: Do You Really Need that System Enhancement? (0)
- 28: Why Buy a Product You Don’t Like? (10)
- 29: Is the Press Biased Against Apple? (0)
- 30: Why Apple Needs Competition? (3)
- October 2006 (23)
- 02: Newsletter #357 Preview: 10.4.8 Update Delivers Lots of Fixes and a Brand New Feature (2)
- 03: Microsoft and the Mac: Excuses, Excuses! (10)
- 04: The Tiger Report: Do You Really Want to Run Mac OS X on a Plain PC Box? (24)
- 05: Time to End the Steve Jobs Death Watch! (4)
- 05: The Failure of the Great Apple Guessing Game (5)
- 09: Newsletter #358 Preview: The Changing Mac Magazine Landscape (1)
- 10: Firefox 2.0: Please Don’t Forget Printing (3)
- 10: Windows Vista and Zune: Microsoft Blows it Again! (11)
- 12: Office for the Mac Delayed Except When it’s Not (8)
- 13: The Leopard Report: The Alleged Rush to Beat Vista to Market (12)
- 16: Newsletter #359 Preview: They Still Don’t Know a Mac Can Do That (1)
- 17: The FUD Report: More Mac OS X Virus Myths (20)
- 18: The End of the Bunker Mentality (3)
- 19: Apple’s Financials: Wall Street Blows it Again! (5)
- 20: The iPod Virus: Did Apple Say the Wrong Thing? (19)
- 23: Newsletter #360 Preview: The Silly Season Revisited: Should Dell Take Over Mac Hardware? (6)
- 24: Firefox 2.0 Reviewed: I Think (19)
- 24: The One Paragraph MacBook Pro Update Report (3)
- 24: The New MacBook Pros: Are they Safe to Buy? (6)
- 25: Those Mac Myths Just Won’t Go Away (12)
- 27: Movie Downloads: Technology in Search of a Market (5)
- 30: Newsletter #361 Preview: Does the Intel-Based Mac Eliminate Apple’s Advantage? (4)
- 31: The Apple Hardware Report: Can You Predict a New Product from a Patent? (1)
- September 2006 (22)
- 01: The Mac Hardware Report: Apple and the Entry-Level PC (15)
- 04: Newsletter #353 Preview: Macrosoft’s Mac BU Blog: The Spin Stops Here! (0)
- 05: The Mac Hardware Report: Buggy as Hell? (12)
- 06: The Online Music Report: How to Double-Cross Your Partners (3)
- 06: The One Paragraph iMac/Mac mini Update Report (10)
- 07: The 24-inch iMac: Are We Missing Something? (36)
- 08: Amazon Unbox: What a Stupid Idea! (14)
- 11: Newsletter #354 Preview: The Mac is Not a Toaster Oven (7)
- 12: The Real Mac Versus Windows Cost Comparison (10)
- 13: An iTunes and Movie Download Reality Check (7)
- 14: The Perils of Building a Cheap PC (10)
- 15: Microsoft’s Zune: Is This Any Way to Promote a New Product? (12)
- 18: Newsletter #355 Preview: The Leopard Report: How About a Fair Upgrade Policy? (3)
- 19: The Technology News Report: Does Anyone Remember Research? (0)
- 20: The Unholy Trio: Mac OS X, Parallels Desktop and Windows Vista (5)
- 21: The Apple Music Report: Debunking the Conventional Wisdom (11)
- 21: A Tale of Two Bets (4)
- 25: Newsletter #356 Preview: The Mac Hardware Report: Quality Control Problems Recede (0)
- 26: The Apple Hardware Report: Believe it or Not! (4)
- 27: The Tiger Report: The Last One? (11)
- 28: The Tiger Report: All Right, Still More to Say (7)
- 29: Where Microsoft and its Cohorts Fear to Tread (33)
- August 2006 (26)
- 01: Can Apple Do the Unthinkable Again? (12)
- 02: The Tech Support Report: Getting Good Service — Possible or Not? (7)
- 03: The Leopard Report: Please Don’t Change Too Much! (3)
- 04: The Apple Security Report: Repeating the Big Lie! (6)
- 05: Newsletter #349 Preview: The Pre WWDC Rant: Is Apple Losing its Mojo? (2)
- 07: The WWDC Rant: The Short Keynote Update (11)
- 08: The Leopard Top Secret Report: Give Me a Break! (12)
- 08: The Mac Night Owl and Opera Play Nicely Together (3)
- 09: