We may have figured out how Apple operates. Every few years there’s a revolutionary product, a stunning advancement in a gadget that does the obvious, but not in a way anybody else ever figured out. In between are the steady, … Continue Reading »

Apple is just full of surprises these days. If the company isn’t busy stunning Wall Street with $100-billion in cash while leading the smartphone and tablet races, it’s sneaking out the latest version of OS X for the Mac with … Continue Reading »

Apple has a history of going against the grain of common wisdom with unconventional but successful products. The Apple II was open and inexpensive. The Mac was point and click. Add to the list of successful but unique products from … Continue Reading »

Somehow, this was expected. Apple’s visionary co-founder, former CEO, and Chairman, Steve Jobs, has died. He was 56. Jobs battled cancer for many years, and stepped down from day-to-day work at Apple this year. He helped lead Apple from the … Continue Reading »

How many gadget revolutions can you name? Radio. Television. The personal computer. VCRs. CDs and DVDs. Mobile phones. Through the years, from Mac to iPod to iPhone to iPad, Apple, Inc. has helped to revolutionize the electronic gadget industry. Today, … Continue Reading »

All good things come to an end. This one should not have come unexpected, but undesired. Steve Jobs has stepped down as Apple’s CEO. The company’s co-founder and spiritual leader has been battling health problems since 2004, and out of … Continue Reading »

As an official member of Shopaholics Anonymous, I’m in love with Apple’s genius. First, it was the iPhone App Store in iTunes. I almost forgot iTunes had music, too. Shopping for apps on my iPhone became a leisure time activity. … Continue Reading »

There. It’s done. Apple’s latest, and probably last, cat is out of the bag and in the wild. And showing up on millions of Macs throughout the world. Mac OS X Lion easily is the strangest beast in Apple’s litter. … Continue Reading »

You may not know this, but the Mac is finished. Kaput. Done for. That revelation was tossed my way this morning along with news that web browsers are done. Feature complete. Ditto for word processors, spreadsheets, and Mac OS X. … Continue Reading »

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then how much can one infer from a 60-second television commercial? Make that one of the most famous TV commercials ever—Apple’s much heralded 1984 ad which introduced the Macintosh during the Super … Continue Reading »

There was a time, back in the day, when a new browser version would have Mac and Windows users salivating over all the new features. Google thinks different. Though only a few years old, Google’s Chrome browser tops the charts … Continue Reading »

You know what catches my hair on fire? The latest trends designed to get me to do something I don’t want to do. The techno pundits are all a blabber this month about Google Music Beta and Amazon Cloud Player. … Continue Reading »

My neighbor cornered me while buying another case of Pampers at Walmart this morning. In his best Welcome to the Club™ grin, he said, “Hey there, Mac lady. There’s another new virus hitting your precious little Macs. Just like PCs.” … Continue Reading »

Storing data online instead of on your Mac or PC is all the rage. It’s called cloud computing. Yes, it’s been around awhile. The latest scuttlebutt is that Apple is preparing a humongous new data center to become iCloud.com. What … Continue Reading »

I read the news today, oh boy, about a lucky man who made the grade. And though the news was sad, well, I just had to laugh. The news? How Google’s Chrome OS on cheap PC netbooks and tablets and … Continue Reading »