During a bout of insomnia, Joe Kissell cleverly slid his MobileMe email address into a song recorded ten years ago.

New and updated backup programs have been coming out of the woodwork, and Joe Kissell recently updated his online list to reflect the latest truth.

As a newly assimilated iPhone owner, Joe Kissell quickly got sucked into a quest for the perfect case. He's gradually zeroing in on what he really wants.

After some misadventures early in the day, I finally managed to take a shiny new iPhone 3G home with me. I might soon become the most productive person - or the least productive person - ever.

I sort of own a new iPhone, in that I paid for it and signed a contract, but due to an activation goof it didn't actually leave the store with me. I should be able to bring it home this afternoon.

Joe Kissell has good backups of his data, but his backup plan had one crucial missing element: an adequately powerful second Mac to use when his main computer is on the fritz.

A new disk image format introduced in Leopard is backup-friendly, because it doesn't require huge files to be backed up when only a small change has occurred. Now we just need more developers to catch on.

Shades of Cyberdog! A mere two weeks after the release of "Take Control of .Mac," Apple has renamed .Mac to MobileMe, rendering another of Joe's books less than up to date.

Rumor has it that Apple may be planning to rename the .Mac service in the near future. Great, just what we wanted to hear the day after releasing the second edition of "Take Control of .Mac"!

Yesterday when I checked my mail, I found my box full of flyers advertising all sorts of things I don't need. I was planning to toss it all, but one flyer caught my eye...

Recently I've heard the name Myanmar pronounced several different ways on news broadcasts, and I was curious to know what the officially correct pronunciation was...

A new Mac data recovery utility is actually not Mac software at all, but a bootable Linux CD. That's an odd concept for most Mac users, but even excusing the unfamiliar exterior, is this software a useful problem-solving tool?

A pair of articles I wrote for Macworld provide several AppleScripts that address common complaints in Word 2008.

If you want more than one person to be able to access and edit iCal calendars, a collection of articles I wrote for Macworld may give you the guidance you need.

Can your personality type affect your willingness to use certain modes of communication? In particular, do introverts have a harder time with technologies like instant messaging and Twitter than extroverts?

An article I wrote for Macworld provides an overview of the ten leading Web browsers for Mac OS X.

A new and improved version of Joe's Paste Plain Text AppleScript is shorter, more elegant, and less likely to result in the wrong font being used.

If you're unhappy with the way your Mac laptop handles sleep mode, you no longer need a command-line script to change it. This new preference pane makes it easy to tailor sleep settings to your liking.

A new maintenance utility looks fantastic and does a few things well, but has some serious bugs, missing features, and other problems.

I have a couple of new articles posted at Macworld.com about Time Machine. Both have been generating lots of comments. If you're using Time Machine, or thinking about it, check these out. Is Time Machine all you need? looks at cases in which Time Machine might be adequate as a sole backup mechanism and cases where you'll want to supplement it with something else - or even skip it altogether...