If a pro­gram exists called “Decrapi­fier” — then some­thing is wrong with the system.

Macs just don’t get auto­mat­i­cally slowed-down by mal­ware, spy­ware, spamware, etc.

Bear with me — my wife uses a Win­dows com­puter, so I am speak­ing from expe­ri­ence. Her com­puter is always get­ting slower and slower. If it were easy to do, she might rein­stall her soft­ware every week, just to keep things run­ning smoothly.

I’m not say­ing this to cre­ate a divi­sion in the ranks — I’m just ask­ing that if you are con­sid­er­ing a new com­puter, please look at Macs. Be sure to go with an Apple fac­tory refurb — full war­ranty and you save 15–20%.

This may be a first, in my entire blog­ging his­tory — me say­ing some­thing bad about any­thing Apple.

Time Machine is an excel­lent part of Mac OS Leop­ard. It has saved my rear many times. (This is a backup fea­ture whereby it trans­par­ently backs up your inter­nal hard drive to an exter­nal drive, so that you can grab a file you deleted a month ago — or get yesterday’s ver­sion of that file you changed a lot. Or go into your email pro­gram and retrieve that email you deleted.)

The bad thing? When you are done retriev­ing that file, the way to exit Time Machine and return to nor­mal life is by hit­ting the “Can­cel” but­ton. That’s stu­pid. It sounds like you will undo the file retrieval — when you just want to exit.

Apple: change the word­ing to “Exit” please.