Jim Lynch: Tech Analyst and Community Manager

My boss Lance recently wrote a column about how Macs need security software too. In his column he pointed out that Mac users are no smarter than Windows users. I respect where Lance is coming from, we’re all human and quite capable of making mistakes. However, I think he got it wrong. It’s not necessarily [...]

Steve Jobs, mercurial CEO of Apple Inc., recently gave an interview to the NY Times. In the interview Jobs shared his thoughts on a number of things including Google’s Android and Amazon’s Kindle e-book reader. When talking about the Kindle, Jobs came out and announced that Apple was busy working on a competitor to the [...]

A few months ago I was reviewing some of my monthly bills and I came to the conclusion that it was time to dump cable TV. Why? Well it turns out that I was paying a significant amount of money for programming that I rarely watched.
Altogether I was paying about $140 per month for digital [...]

I’ve used iTunes for quite a while as my main source for music, TV shows, podcasts, and audiobooks. But I never bothered with it too much for movies because I had no interest in buying most movies. I already have a DVD collection of around 200 movies, and I learned through that experience that it’s [...]

Microsoft’s rivalry with Google heated up considerably this past year when rumors surfaced that Google might release its own operating system to compete with Windows. Has Google finally jumped into the fray with its own OS?
Unfortunately, no; gOS is not a “Google OS” nor is it affiliated with Google (though Desktop Linux has reported that [...]

As you probably already know, Apple recently released the final version of its Mac OS X Leopard operating system. And, judging by its initial sales (more than 2 million copies sold already), Apple seems to have hit a major home run. So what’s the big deal about Leopard and why should you care? In this [...]

I’ve always been a fan of alternative operating systems. I can’t help it. It’s in my blood for some reason. I loved OS2, then Linux, then Mac OS X, and now BSD. Yep, BSD. Yes, I know that Mac OS X is BSD under the hood, but it’s not quite the same as running a [...]

Back in June, Steve Jobs took the stage at WWDC 2007 along with Bing Gordon (an executive from Electronic Arts). The two execs promised a number of brand new EA games for the Mac platform. Shortly after I wrote a column asking if Apple had, in fact, lied to Mac gamers by not answering some [...]

Ever since I bought my Power Mac and PowerBook, I’ve fallen in love with OS X. But eventually, even the most beloved hardware needs to be replaced. I skipped the first batch of Intel based Macs, but last week I finally decided to upgrade.
As always, things are never as simple as they seem, and [...]

At this year’s WWDC keynote, Steve Jobs pointed out ten great features of the upcoming Leopard OS. Well I thought I’d take a slightly different tack and point the ten things I didn’t like about Jobs’ keynote.
Now come on, admit it…there were things that you didn’t like about this keynote either. So I’ll list [...]