This is going to result in many grandmothers calling their techy grandkids

Did you ever notice: when you call a business that has an automated attendant system (which is, frankly, almost every business now) the initial recording almost always will inform you that you should listen carefully  [more...]

Today I stopped by Amoeba Records in Berkeley, and to my astonishment there were three copies of Motherlode on sale… except that two of them were not official copies. They were selling two copies of the  [more...]

Hmm. Perhaps this explains why everything is in palettes and toolbars these days instead of in the menubar where they belong: the space in the Mac menubar is quickly eroding. Here’s what mine looks like today  [more...]