Author: Owen Rubin

The front of the San Francisco Chronicle business section yesterday said, “State seeks ways to relieve homeowner misery.” What I really want to know,

UPDATE 9/15/07 MORE NEWS: While you cannot directly use your credit for music downloads, you can actually use it to buy an iTunes gift

This is good for a laugh, but it is amazing what those who make knockoffs will actually do to make some money. Are people

My iMac G5 is running great. It is stable, apps do not crash, and basically it does a great job. So why should I

DAY 1 We start out on Tuesday morning in the press room, and everyone is getting ready to go. Even Tim looks happy and

After a performing an upgrade to 10.5 Panther, and tempting fate and not doing an archive and install, I noticed that none of my

I just updated my iMac G5 to Leopard. I was bold, and I just did a simple upgrade. After all, these almost always work,

I have been having troubles getting files to go to my iDisk. In a nutshell, the files transfer, but then fail to close, and

I read an article , “Man, these people are annoying! Airports and flights feature the same grating, all-too-familiar personalities” by James Wysong at MSNBC

So, in my case, the update worked just fine. And then I relaunched the new and improved Office 2008 on my NON-Intel G5, and

I really like the darker blue color, and the header seems smaller overall. Nice job.

Not to be outdone by Microsoft’s Office ’08 product release, the Vatican has decided to release, after only 1500 years of waiting, “Sins 08”,

Ok, the high price of fuel aside, many airlines are having serious trouble making money and staying in business, and when you look at

I use Yahoo Alerts. This is a cool idea where you can put in words to a filter and it searches new web pages,

Time Machine is great, but unfortunately, it stores your backup in the same place as your computer. A house fire, burglary, tornado or other

OK, my Treo 755p does everything the iPhone can do, but it is just not as sexy as an iPhone. In fact, right now,

OK, I finally decided it is time to leave the world of Entourage behind. I happen to like a SINGLE application that does address

Letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802): “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.

OK, I still do not own an iPhone. There are two main reasons why. One, I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, with

On February 17th, 2009, if you receive off air programming and have not upgraded your TV to receive digital TV signals, your screen will