I open the box. Inside the box is the largest and heaviest trophy I’ve ever received. It’s a sixteen inch, bronze and gold plated statue featuring an androgynous, futuristic, vaguely human being holding aloft—what is it, a Mac SE 30? Evidently, AppleJack has received an Editor’s Choice award from MacWorld.

Regardless of the ‘Switch’ ads’ sanguine approach to entering the promised land of Mac OS X, there are some areas in which Mac use can be somewhat frustrating. One of these areas is financial software. Every year, at tax time, I am left wondering what features are going to be left out of the Mac [...]