There's no Apple KnowledgeBase article on the topic, but Disk Utility in Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6 can fail to erase some USB-connected hard drives, offering only a mysterious message. Here's a solution.

Although Apple prevents users from accessing the MobileMe Web site from Safari on an iPhone, Adam figured out a way around Apple's limitation, making it possible to use services like Find My iPhone from an iPhone.

In a followup to our coverage of widespread - but elusive - SuperDrive issues, we are pleased to report that Apple has informed at least one TidBITS reader that they are investigating the problems.

A few short weeks after the release of iTunes 9, Apple gives us iTunes 9.0.1 with a variety of important-sounding bug fixes.

The details of how iTunes and MobileMe syncing work keep changing through successive versions of the iPhone OS. "Take Control of Syncing Data in Leopard" author Michael E. Cohen explains how each version has worked, and how to prevent duplicate calendar events from appearing on your iPhone or iPod touch.

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard offers automatic spelling correction, but all too often, it recognizes your typos as words other than what you meant, causing even more work. To ensure accurate replacements, try using the TidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary of over 2,700 corrections. TidBITS contributor Lewis Butler explains how to do it.

An attempt to track down reports of widespread defective SuperDrives via Apple discussion forums reveals the difficulty in assessing these sorts of large-scale issues, yet also confirms the existence of some kind of significant problem at play.

Even Snow Leopard's updates are faster and sleeker. Mac OS X 10.6.1 is out with minor fixes for Apple Mail, Flash security, and printer drivers. A few unacknowledged errors seem to have disappeared, too, although other problems remain. We wax poetic. Or at least prosaic.

If you're as irritated as we are at Microsoft Word's habit of moving the insertion point when you use the Page Up and Page Down keys (something most Mac applications don't do), read on for a solution that requires no additional software.

In an undocumented and unannounced change, Snow Leopard has stifled an application's ability to mark a document as its own, thus hampering users and developers alike.

In a recent KnowledgeBase article Apple acknowledges a bug that can cause some Apple Mail users to be unable to send messages in Snow Leopard. While the company has suggested workarounds, user forums indicate the fixes aren't working for everyone.

Do you use a Palm OS-based handheld? Although Palm OS syncing via iSync is no longer supported under Snow Leopard, Mark/Space's The Missing Sync for Palm OS offers an alternative.

If you use 1Password in Safari and upgrade to Snow Leopard, you'll either have to run Safari in 32-bit mode or upgrade to the Agile Keychain and use the 1Password 3 beta.

The new version of Preview in Snow Leopard has a subtle bug that could cause significant confusion for readers of technical documentation containing visible Web URLs.

Apple has posted a KnowledgeBase article that explains which software packages (and versions) the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard installer places in an Incompatible Software folder. The note also details how Snow Leopard will prevent incompatible software from launching to prevent disappointment.