G4 Insignificantly Superior to G3
I’ve said it before; I’ll say it again. The G4 is insignificantly superior to the G3 unless you are running AltiVec-enabled software. It’s not a claim I make lightly, since Apple is hyping the G4 as...
View Article$70 Discovery Wonderwall Projector May Disappoint
“Make every night movie night with the Discovery Expedition Wonderwall Entertainment Projector. The Wonderwall – which connects to your TV, DVD, camcorder, or video game console – projects an image up...
View ArticleNo Office 2013 for Mac? Don’t Panic
From the headline, Microsoft Won’t Bring Office 2013 to Mac, but It Will Add SkyDrive Integration to Office 2011, you’d think that Microsoft was sticking it to Mac users. And from reading the article...
View ArticleShould You Worry About the Mac OS X Sudo Password Bypass Vulnerability
Mac OS X version 10.0 shipped on 2001.03.24, and in over a dozen years, the platform has proven particularly resilient to malware. Not that malware for the Mac doesn’t exist, just that it never seems...
View ArticleHow Long Will Your Hard Drive Last?
Macs have had hard drives for nearly as long as Macs have been available, as is true of PCs, and a lot of those very early hard drives didn’t have great life expectancies. In addition to higher...
View ArticleThe Truth About USB Flash Drives
USB has been around since 1996, but it didn’t come into its own until Apple unveiled the first iMac in May 1998. While the PC world was content to add USB as one more port in addition to parallel and...
View ArticleThe Great Emoji Controversy
First we had emoticons, those smiles, winks, and other usually sideways image created using standard keyboard keys. And then came emoji, those tiny colorful expressive faces, animals, modes of...
View ArticleUsing a Mac Does Not Make You Safe from Heartbleed
If you’ve watched the news or been on the Internet this week, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the Heartbleed bug, which allows hackers to access data that is otherwise securely encoded. How? By...
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