Monthly Archives: May 2020

My cable company and TiVo finally drove me to streaming

In previous columns, I compared cable and streaming TV for everyday viewing of network television and concluded that streaming offered some advantages, but significantly cutting the cost of your cable bill might not one of them. For decades cable has been the industry standard for delivering live TV broadcasts to our homes. But as high-speed internet […]

United Airline – treating our safety as a branding exercise

It’s interesting how this pandemic is bringing out out the best and the worst of people and corporations. The pandemic is also revealing these behaviors more clearly than most things, because it’s a matter of life and death. Some of the cellular provides deserve praise for providing more data at no charge. One of the […]

The ultimate charger for your Apple devices

With all the devices we use, keeping them charged can be a challenge, and in fact, has spawned a huge accessory market that includes battery packs, battery cases, multi-port chargers, and desktop charging stations. Keeping your devices topped off has become even more important with many of us spending more time on our devices. For […]

The final saga of Apple’s ill-fated keyboards

Apple has finally completed the purging of their defective butterfly keyboards from all models of MacBooks. With the introduction this week of the 13-inch MacBook Pro, their three lines of notebooks now have their “Magic” keyboard, based on the desktop Keyboard with the same name. The new models are the 2020 versions of the MacBook […]