The OS X Terminal opens up a world of powerful UNIX utilities and scripts. If you’re migrating from Linux, you’ll find many familiar commands work the way you expect. But power users often aren’t awar

“Atmadm.” Getting our work done was an alphabet soup nightmare. “chkntfs.” “dir.” (Source: vintagecomputer.net ) Then, in 1984, Apple adopted Xerox PARC’s WIMP — window, icon, menu, pointer — and took us a galactic leap forward away from those horrifying command lines of DOS, and into a world of…

Home Products Order Contact Gallery Copyright © 2004 Ron Avitzur. Pacific Tech's Graphing Calculator has a long history. I began the work in 1985 while in school. Thatbecame Milo , and later became pa

Music and movie industries, you’re well-known for being incredibly short-sighted, greedy and stupid. I’m not going to argue with that, because you really are. All right-thinking, rational people look upon your recent efforts towards creating further draconian legislation (such as SOPA and ACTA )…

Brooke Crothers, writing for CNET : Apple-centric blogs play an important role in disseminating information about what is probably the most important consumer-electronics company in the world. But the coverage is hardly neutral. While not all that surprising, the FUD factor can get pretty hot and…

July 2007 I have too much stuff. Most people in America do. In fact, thepoorer people are, the more stuff they seem to have. Hardly anyoneis so poor that they can't afford a front yard full of old car

When you unboxed my hypothetical Apple Television Set you would find three devices inside. There would be a lovely large display panel with an impossibly thin bezel (unadorned by an Apple logo). It’d

Crying in public, because I'm a workaholic dad without a dad, and just read @hotdogsladies's http://t.co/CQEervA. Live well, Merlin.

A list. Software Use as little software as possible. Use software that does one thing well. Do not use software that does many things poorly. Do not use software that must sync over the internet to function. Do not use web applications that should be desktop applications. Do not use desktop…