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Columns and Opinions
We are proud to present to you the best editorial staff in the Mac community. Our columnists and contributing editors come from a variety of backgrounds and offer you a wide spectrum of perspectives. [RSS]
Opinion: Opinions from TMO's editors and staff [RSS]
Dr. Mac's Rants and Raves: Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus has been a Macintosh user for a long, long time and has written over 50 books including iPhone For Dummies and Mac OS X Leopard For Dummies. [RSS]
Ted Landau's User Friendly View: Ted Landau is the founder of MacFixIt, and the author of Take Control of Your iPhone and other Mac help books. [RSS]
The Back Page: The Back Page is the space that Bryan Chaffin carved out for his own thoughts. He suffers from the delusion that there are folks out there who care what he has to say. Topics include just about anything related to the Mac market. [RSS]
Hidden Dimensions: John Martellaro's Hidden Dimensions draws on John's career-long association with Apple, as an individual customer, then writer/observer, corporate customer and then five years as an employee, to delve into the hidden side of Apple and provide insights into Apple events and technologies. [RSS]
Computing with Bifocals: Computing With Bifocals is aimed at the generation that remembers what the world was like before there was color, Nancy Carroll Gravley covers issues for people who don't care how their computer works, but rather what their computer and the internet can do for them. [RSS]
The Devil's Advocate: The title of this column, "The Devil's Advocate", really says it all. John Kheit is an attorney, and he often takes a critical (some might say an overly critical) look at the issues. Also, John has unearthed some rather interesting developments from Apple and Microsoft alike. [RSS]
Just a Thought: Just A Thought is Vern Seward's editorial cyber-home. Vern is an IT guy, though his columns run the gamut from spam, to Steve Jobs, to Biofuel Cells, to the iTMS, to just how much AppleWorks sucks (and everything in between) [RSS]
Just a Peek: Quick looks at software from Vern Seward. [RSS]
Oh the Games You'll Play: Brad Cook's game column at TMO. [RSS]
Monday's Mac Gadget: John is a software engineer who works in the corporate R&D group of a Fortune 500 company, focusing on imaging and printing technologies. He has AS, BS and MS degrees in various computing disciplines, so his friends and colleagues are somewhat surprised that he's a Mac enthusiast. After spending the day developing in an environment comprised largely of PCs, and watching colleagues wrestle with the horror that is Windows, he's glad to come home to a MacBook Pro and PowerMac G5 at the end of the day. [RSS]
Free on iTunes: Vern digs through iTunes so you can reap the benefits. [RSS]
Headlines for Columns and Opinions
- [Nov 20, 2009]
- Free on iTunes - Musée du Louvre, Art Lite, SketchBook Mobile X and More.
- [Nov 19, 2009]
- Editorial - How AT&T Screwed up and Left an Opening for Verizon
- [Nov 19, 2009]
- Editorial - The Mac Needs a Two Button Mouse—Oh Wait!
- [Nov 18, 2009]
- Computing with Bifocals - Mail, Address Book and iChat: Tips for Staying in Touch
- [Nov 18, 2009]
- Hidden Dimensions - iPhone Competitor Forecast: Stormy with a Chance of Fail
- [Nov 17, 2009]
- Ted Landau's User Friendly Blog - Apple’s App Store Rejections
- [Nov 17, 2009]
- Analysis - How the TMO Staff Members Use Their iPhones, Part III of II
- [Nov 13, 2009]
- Free on iTunes - Alarm Clocks, Alarm Clocks, Alarm Clocks, & More
- [Nov 12, 2009]
- Hidden Dimensions - Apple’s Next Move: Make the PC Obsolete
- [Nov 12, 2009]
- The Back Page - Miami Newspaper Tells Tale of Heroic Psystar Founders & Their Battle For Mediocrity
- [Nov 11, 2009]
- Ted Landau's User Friendly Blog - iPhone In-App Purchases: Lost and Found
- [Nov 11, 2009]
- Analysis - How the TMO Staff Members Use Their iPhones, Part II of II
- [Nov 10, 2009]
- Analysis - How the TMO Staff Members Use Their iPhones, Part I of II
- [Nov 06, 2009]
- Free on iTunes - Dictionary, Dictionary, Dictionary, And More
- [Nov 04, 2009]
- Computing with Bifocals - A Kinder, Gentler Snow Leopard
- [Nov 03, 2009]
- Editorial - Apple and Verizon will Kiss and Make Up
- [Nov 03, 2009]
- Ted Landau's User Friendly Blog - The Multiple Personalities of TweetMyMac
- [Nov 02, 2009]
- Monday's Mac Gadget - Want to Stream Your Content? Check Out Darwin Streaming Server!
- [Oct 30, 2009]
- Free on iTunes - The Weather Channel, TED, Dr. Tran, & more
- [Oct 29, 2009]
- Editorial - Apple TV 3: Is it us? Or Them?
- [Oct 27, 2009]
- Ted Landau's User Friendly View - An iPhone Killer App May Be Left to Die
- [Oct 26, 2009]
- The Back Page - BALDERDASH! There’s Plenty of Room for iTablet & dedicated Ebook Readers!
- [Oct 26, 2009]
- Editorial - Apple’s iTablet will Erase the Dedicated Book Readers
- [Oct 23, 2009]
- Free on iTunes - History Stuff, Brain Stuff, Coolest Stuff, & More (Stuff)
- [Oct 22, 2009]
- Oh the Games You'll Play - iPhone 3GS, 3G iPod touch Could Make Apple a Major Mobile Gaming Player
Recent Headlines - Updated November 20th
- Fri, 6:15 PM
- News - Original Apple I on Ebay for $50K, w/Letter from Steve Jobs
- 6:11 PM
- Games - New iPhone Games: Secret of the Lost Cavern Ep 1, New DJ Nights, More
- 5:47 PM
- Games - Star Trek D-A-C Game Headed to the Mac Next Month
- 4:57 PM
- Product News - TidBITS Releases “Take Control of Syncing Data in Snow Leopard”
- 4:26 PM
- John Martellaro's Blog - Particle Debris (week ending 11/20) Stationery Pads Go Poof
- 2:59 PM
- Free on iTunes - Musée du Louvre, Art Lite, SketchBook Mobile X and More.
- 1:50 PM
- Deal Brothers - Acer P215H bmid 21.5” Widescreen LCD Monitor: $139.99
- 11:24 AM
- TMO Appearances - Jeff Gamet Shares More Holiday Gift Ideas on MacJury
- 10:43 AM
- Product News - Cocktail 4.5 for Leopard Adds QuickLook Cache Clearing
- 10:06 AM
- News - Hack Enables Mac OS X 10.6.2 on Netbooks
- 9:23 AM
- News - Ballmer: Microsoft Wants Back the Marketshare Apple is Taking
- 8:41 AM
- News - Boot Camp Drivers 2.2 Adds Magic Mouse Support
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