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The Last 7 Years on My Mac: an anniversary

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This blog started publishing on Saturday 17 January 2015, seven years ago. Here’s a look back through Mountain Lion security updates, paintings of oblivion, and more.

January 23, 2022 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

I wonder if you can help me: Q&A on Q&A

How to get free, personal advice and solve your Mac problems.

January 23, 2016 General, Macs, Technology

Now we are one: this blog’s first birthday

Born from the ashes of MacUser magazine, it has come full circle as my first section appears in the latest issue of MacFormat.

January 17, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Welcome to MacFormat

MacFormat magazine is changing in the New Year, and I am a part of that change.

December 18, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

The simple life

It is also easy to lose touch with the real world when writing about computers, even Macs.

July 27, 2015 Macs, Technology

Message from MacUser’s grave

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It was almost six months to the day since MacUser’s untimely death that my incoming email contained a message from the deceased publication.

July 18, 2015 General, Life, Macs

Janus and Mars

I still think of those who died in the Falklands War, and of Tony Tyler, one of the wittiest and most perceptive of the contributors to MacUser. We miss them.

June 24, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

My 400th birthday

In my regular commentary written in August 2011, I clocked up my 400th Help section in MacUser. Here is my momentarily smug reflection on that milestone.

May 6, 2015 Macs, Technology

Authors of their own destruction

It is a popular myth that the Guillotine was invented by Monsieur Guillotin, and that he later succumbed […]

January 20, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Technology

RIP MacUser magazine (UK)

Friday 16 January 2015 marked the sudden and tragic death of the original and UK-based magazine MacUser. After […]

January 17, 2015 Macs

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