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April 13th, 2007

Leopard Postponed — What’s a Writer to Do?

It’s all about timing.

Yesterday afternoon, not long after the stock markets closed in New York, Apple put a one-paragraph announcement on its Hot News page. The announcement told the world (or whoever happened to be watching that page) that because Leopard resources had been used to finish up the iPhone, Leopard would

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April 13th, 2007

Using the Multiple Item Info Window

A quick tip (with video) for Macintosh users.

Suppose you have a bunch of files in a folder and you want to know what the combined size of several files would be.

Select all the files you want to include. You can hold down the Command key to select multiple files. Hold down

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