Freezing and crashing on devices ”that need to work.“

Troubleshooting .Mac’s little improved successor.

For me, something’s missing from the iPhone 2.0 Software Update.

May these irritating .Mac errors rest in peace.

Spending US$599 on an iPhone a year ago turns out to be not a great way to invest my money.

Ideas for iPhone applications that I’ll never turn into reality.

Apple’s presentation software is so good, I used it for print.

Episode three of my search for an all-purpose memory aid.

The surprisingly uniform color of iconography.

I’ll never be an Apple TV customer. For now.

Not picking on Adobe at all for Creative Suite 3.

The MacBook Air officially marks the era of SKU fiction.

Text Expander 2.0 is a great use of .Mac, but that doesn’t mean I can’t complain anyway.

Science fiction fans, not type aficionados, come first in Mac OS X 10.5.

The way you use your software should stick with you.

Just like the title says, plus a note on OmniWeb.

How good can you get on the iPhone keyboard?

The NYC subway map chopped up into little tiles for your iPhone.

Three examples of unglamorous, indispensible software.

Messaging .Mac customers about recent changes to the service.

Let’s hope .Mac gets better tomorrow. Plus: how to own more than one iPhone.

Two things outrageously missing on my iPhone.

Ways in which I’m definitely not planning on acquiring my own iPhone.

John Gruber appearing for AIGA in SoHo tomorrow night!

How fixing .Mac will make the iPhone better.

Accusing the company of being a company.

Getting rid of the Venetian blind effect.

It took me years to find this feature in an application I use every day.

The Palm O.S. blew it, and why the new iPhone is a typographic milestone.

Why the Apple Phone and iTunes shouldn’t get too cozy.

My obligatory blog post about Apple’s upcoming mobile phone, focusing on what it probably won’t do.

Casting about for a replacement personal banking application.

Switching away from Rosetta apps means ditching Entourage.

Getting things done with Kinkless Getting Things Done.

Coping with my new Intel-based iMac.

A surefire way for Adobe to hit a home run.

Living with the new 24-in. iMac.

At long last, OmniWeb 5.5 is out of beta, and it’s just like it was.

At long last, it’s time to buy a new Mac.

Coming changes and changes that should be coming to instant messaging.

I'm trying to send back my potentially explosive PowerBook battery, but Apple won’t let me.

Hoping someone will create a Cocoa version of kGTD with a true database.

I’m switching to Linux… for just a bit.

Disaappointment and signs of synchronicity at Apple’s 2006 World Wide Developers Conference.

Just published in today’s Guardian: my article on software that works like a typewriter.

The moment for reflectivity is here, or maybe it was fifteen minutes ago.

A software brainstorm of mine makes some strides towards reality.

A quick visit to Apple’s new retail store on Fifth Avenue.

What we didn’t get when Apple released its new consumer notebooks.

The time for a truly user-friendly mobile phone from Cupertino is now.

How to turn your computer into a manual typewriter.

Boot Camp is the most adventurous OS idea Apple has had in twenty-one years, which is too bad.

The intrepid cousin to Firefox makes releases its version 1.0 today.

As a reminder of my age, my PowerBook is back from the dead.

After a scare a few weeks ago, the internal drive on my PowerBook finally checked out.

One day my Mac feels fine, and then it starts feeling very, very slow.

Things are looking up: I didn’t buy a new Mac and my hard drive crashed.

It’s Microsoft country over here.

Nifty image manipulation in Mac OS X Tiger and the bad old days.

There’s something missing from Apple’s Macintosh hardware offerings.

Tantalizingly close but still miles away from the perfect media center.

Even recent improvements to Apple’s Web services leave much to be desired.

.Mac is slowing me down.

Encountering the spirit of Bob Metcalfe on a train.

How a little triangle caused me five minutes of befuddlement.

Looking for a trackball for the 21st Century.

Camino, king of the uphill battle.

Some thoughts on Apple’s move from PowerPC to Intel.

There are more window chrome styles than ever in Tiger, and what each might mean.

I’m busy, busy, busy, and so is Adobe Illustrator — creating weird temp files, that is.

Mac OS X’s unheralded dictionary feature is great.

Mac OS X’s synchronization technology makes less sense than ever.

Tiger takes a tiny little step backward in font management.

Minor glitches in the way Safari displays CSS and the way Tiger renders text.

Mac OS X Tiger is finally here, but I’ve been taking my own sweet time installing it.

One day until Tiger arrives…

Ask for some kind of software that you don’t think exists, and ye shall receive.

I can’t figure out how people are managing projects on the Macintosh.

Until last week, you could count me among the podcasting skeptics.

Subway thefts of iPods are up in New York City, sending me into the market for new earbuds.

Why it’s not completely crazy to expect the Mac OS to remain stable under duress from third-party system enhancements.

Mac OS X and its susceptibility to the effects of accretion.

Something about music collections makes some people very, very fussy.

How much I really, really dislike Apple’s recent lawsuits.

With all of these Macs, what use could I possibly have for another?

All the iPod user interface needs is a little dash of the alphabet.

Last week I decided to count how many iPods I see on my walk to work.

Disposable income and an incurable addiction to stuff from Cupertino.

There’s a tension between power features and elegant simplicity all over Keynote 2.

On the cusp of buying myself an iPod shuffle, it occurs to me that I really don’t like to shuffle.

I’ll take one of everything announced at Macworld Expo this morning.

Rumors in advance of next week’s Macworld Expo have me a little worked up.

The Matias Tactile Pro Keyboard inspires more discussion of keyboard technologies than is probably healthy.

What’s good about Delicious Library if the software’s no good?

Looking for a USB hub that works the way USB hubs are supposed to.

What’s the name of that song that goes, “Doo de dum de doo… you know the one I’m talkin’ about?

The new iPod Photo is just a big tease.

At the end of a long week, I did something really, really stupid.

Report on my trial period with NetNewsWire 2.0 beta.

My Firefox usage is growing every day, thanks to two small tweaks I’ve made to it.

Wouldn’t be great to have a true Apple sub-notebook? Keep dreaming.

On my out of the city and hopefully to stop thinking about this election for a bit.

Some ideas on how to fix up OmniWeb’s interface… for me.

Apple’s new iMac doesn’t follow through on its tradition of innovation.

Good things and bad things about using Apple’s Keynote over Microsoft PowerPoint.

After a week with the finalized OmniWeb 5, its very impressive feature set is still imperfect.

Though I just started using ecto, I already have a complaint.

Real plays the barbarian at Apple’s gates, and for once, I’m rooting for Real.

More thoughts on my new Sony Ericsson T608.

First day with a new version of Microsoft Office for Macintosh.

Is Bluetooth all it’s cracked up to be?

Twenty days into a free 21-day trial license for the latest version of PathFinder.

How I rode a chunk of text from email to Keynote.

Mellel is a great word processor, but it almost doesn’t matter.

The reality of security comes to Mac OS X.

PulpFiction is finally here, and this is what I think of it.

Mac users: don’t throw away your mouse just yet.

How I went from Now to Action to Quicksilver.

The search for the perfect XML news reader.

A brand new HogBaySoftware.com launched today.

How the Apple Store solved all of my problems.

Evidence that I attended the Design Guard, where I learned how to make slick UI widgets.

Signs of a healthy software ecosystem.

Aside from the branding, not enough has changed in the Adobe Creative Suite.

No one believes that Entourage and the Mac OS X Address Book can be bridged. Except me.

Quick thoughts on what was announced at 2004’s Macworld Expo SF and what wasn’t.

SuperDrive in hand, Mr. Subtraction teaches you how to make legal back-ups of your DVDs.

Seven inches of snow and a foot of PowerBook.

The future looks anti-aliased, smoothed out and drop-shadowed.

Picasa is a rip-off of iPhoto that adds its own innovations.

How I upgraded to Mac OS X Panther.

So, so ready to throw caution to the wind and install Panther.

iTunes for Windows brings the whole family together.

Apple’s Panther update is just two weeks away.

The startling true secrets behind Web Confidential.

How to replace the Mac OS X Finder… almost.

A round-up of some recent, uncharacteristically high quality articles about the Mac.

Going wireless is hard to do.

Hog Bay Notebook is a smart and simple ‘snippet keeper.’

Is the Apple premium really worth it?

Sick, laid up in bed, and using remote access software.

Upgrading an old Macintosh.yields surprisingly good results.

Last hurrah for Macworld New York.

In the battle for online music content, EMusic beats out the iTunes Music Store.

Longtime, well-liked software publisher Casady & Greene have closed shop.

On my way to Montréal, a few random items.

It’s hard to know when I can trust myself when it comes to applauding new Apple announcements, but I had that same familiar excitability come over me when Steve Jobs unveiled new PowerMac G5 desktop computers at Apple’s World Wide...

With a new 80GB hard drive replacement, everything on my PowerBook has to be reinstalled from scratch.

A ‘Mac-like’ ad makes me feel old.

Microsoft confirmed rumors of the cancellation of IE for the Mac today.

Apple is getting serious about bringing indie music to the iTunes Music Store.

The latest iSync doesn’t sync enough.

What to do with an aging PowerBook?

The search for a replacement for Stickies.

The iTunes Music Store is dangerously easy to use, though it could do with some polishing.

The debut of Apple’s online music service is singularly elegant and overeagerly hyped.

MP3 Sushi is one example of the powerful, exceptionally easy-to-use software being written for Mac OS X.

After breaking my iPod and having it replaced with a brand new unit by Apple, I’ve decided to take care of it properly and buy a real, protective case.

The newest public release of Safari features the most elegant implementation yet of tabbed browsing.

Mac OS X has inspired some of the best technical writing the platform has seen in years.

LaunchBar is a utility so powerful, it’s eerily evocative of the absurd computers we tend to see only in the movies.

Apple and Microsoft’s approaches to style guidelines are both indicative of their design advocacy.

Al Gore has joined the Apple Computer board of directors.

RSS is fun, and NetNewsWire is a great RSS client.

A minor interface tweak in Mac OS X represents a lost opportunity.

Konfabulator, a new, Swiss army knife-style software utility, is a great reason to own a Macintosh.

Bob Hearn, co-creator of ClarisWorks, tells the story of that product and the almost-legendary Claris Corporation.

Stirrings and murmurs on TidBITS Talk.

My copy of Mac OS X 10.2 just arrived last night.

Just added some more RAM to my PowerBook. Aaaahhh.

Jaguar is great, and so is the software that runs on it.

What good comes of MacHack?

The brave new world of icons.

Reconsidering the iMac and Mac OS 9.x.

Bert Monroy makes art with computers that doesn’t look like art made with computers.

Aping that System 6 aesthetic.

Winners of Apple’s Design Awards.

Your Mac Life is a guilty pleasure.

Playing around with Mac OS X.

The new iMac looks great.

My new PowerBook arrived today.

Photoshop through the ages.

A beautiful software calculator.

How to change that little icon in your Web browser.

ProgramSwitcher adds a Windows-style processing palette to the Mac OS.

The Palm OS is testing my patience.

At long last, Apple’s next generation operating system has arrived.

The long-awaited release of Mac OS X is just two months away.

Ars Technica takes an in-depth look at Macworld San Francisco 2001.

The new Titanium PowerBook aside, what the heck is Apple’s long-term gameplan?