My hope is that you’ve been directed to this story by a caring friend or relative—so caring, in fact, that their holiday generosity extended to giving you a new Mac. “Oh my goodness!” you chirped. “Oh ...

After several weeks of increasingly erratic behavior, my Mac mini finally gave up the ghost. Yesterday, several processes failed to quit properly. There they were on the dock with the "I'm running" ...

We live in a cross-platform world. Windows-powered PCs still dominate in the workplace, but Macs have captured substantial market share and even greater mind share among the affluent and well ...

Recently, I helped a semi-retired friend (let’s call him Ishmael) replace his old Mac, a dual-processor Power Mac G4 running Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. This friend is by no means a dummy — in fact, he’s a ...

For a long time, one of the strongest points for using Apple computers in your business as opposed to a Windows-based PC has been the suggestion that the Mac platform is somehow inherently more secure ...

iBook Lessons is a continuing series about e-book writing and publishing. Since yesterday's announcement, I've been having a series of conversations -- in email, on the phone, on Twitter -- regarding ...