Omniweb is a very powerful, full-featured browser for the Mac platform. It is produced by the Omnigroup, of Seattle Washington. The Omnigroup is a company that has been with us since the days of NeXt, so they’re a long-time developer of Mac applications.
Author: Bruce Black
Just Three Things
I’ve been giving a lot of thought to what I’d like to see Steve Jobs bring out from behind the curtain at Macworld Expo next week. Here are my three things, what are yours?
Read MoreThe Sound of Snow…
The Happiest people on The planet earth today have got to be the Boston Area TV weathermen. (“weatherpersons” in newspeak) Today, the area is
Read MoreRandom Thoughts…
None of this matters but,, That is one hilarious Google Trick Tim! 🙂 Another storm forecast for tomorrow. Will someone, anyone at all, please
Read MoreMonitors for the Rest of Us
Okay folks, gather up your flame throwers, and start boiling the oil. I’m about to to say some things which will certainly cheese off some of you.
Read MoreApple, it’s time!
Time for a multi-button Apple Mouse?
Read MoreThe Whacky World of Job Interviews!
People are sending out hundreds, or even thousands, of résumés. People are going six months or longer between interviews. Actually being granted an interview at a company, any company, is big news…
Read MoreWelcome To Geezer City!
There comes a time in every columnist’s life when you realize that you are indeed getting older, a time when you feel you must “vent” just like your father or grandfather did before you.
Read MoreWhat’s your story?
With the twentieth anniversary of the Macintosh upon us, I felt that this would be an appropriate time to tell “my story”, of how I came to be such a fan of this computing platform. Heck, everyone has stories, right
Read MoreDid you Remember to activate your Idiot Warning System?
“I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore!”
Read MoreNew TV Season, Redux!
I hate to admit it, but I do watch some television. I love a good episode of “CSI Miami”. I think David Caruso is a fine actor, and the character he plays, Horatio Caine, is “cool”. Why do I think this?
Read MoreConsumer Electronics! We must be Crazy!!
I was going to write about something else, but a recent experience made a little bell go off in my head. Yep, I was searching for something to write about, and after what happened to me on a Sunday evening a few weeks back, I knew I had a better topic.
Read MoreBruce Black Goes to An Apple Store Grand Opening!
I received the announcement a week ahead of time, along with some other spam I regularly receive. Let me say that it’s a damn good thing I check that junk mail box, just in case. The letter was colorful, and straight to the point, as mail from Apple tends to be.
Read MoreHe Said, She Said, They Said
ere in the Northeast, we have a chain of drug stores called “CVS”. (I think it stands for “Consumer Value Stores’.) It’s one of these stores where they have a prescription drug counter, but they sell darn near everything else besides. These types of stores proliferated, starting in the 1960’s, as a way to circumvent Massachusetts’ rather archaic blue laws.
Read MoreiPod 15GB
Review
This 15 Gig iPod review is just like all the others you have read. It can be summed up in two words: Buy One!
Read MoreSummer Camp for Adults, & The Return of Management Math
The Sunday Boston Globe includes a really nice magazine, called, interestingly enough, the Boston Globe Magazine. So, on the first day in months when it has been warm and nice outside, I was stuck inside my apartment. With a very nasty head cold.
Read MoreHobbies for Geeks
Like most of you, I have several hobbies to keep myself amused and busy, during the times when I am not working to pay the bills. Some of my hobbies are pretty standard (if anything can really be called standard any more.) As I have mentioned in a few columns, I love to bike ride. This is a sport and hobby combined.
Read MoreTaunting “The Happy Fun Ball”
Where some people get the stones to engage in cold-weather outdoor sports, such as skiing, in New England, is beyond me.
Read MoreThe Sky Is Not Falling, I
I need to get something straight with you, my readers. (Both of you.) I am not much of a “winter person”. In fact, I feel that at this point, I can make the judgment that winter sucks, badly.
Read MoreAdvertising, “The Clown”, And Us
It was just about a year ago, when I first saw the commercial on the boob tube. It was late at night, and I was watching a special presentation” of the classic movie “Doctor Zhivago”, one of the few movies ever made which appeals to both men and women.
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