Reader Barry Wallack would like to take advantage of the wonder that is FireWire to use another Mac’s hard drive as a local volume. He writes: I am trying to connect two Macs together via a FireWire ...

It's a paradox. Zemeckis went into the future and saw the FireWire symbol, went back to his own time and made the movie using it. Now FireWire is just fulfilling the destiny it always had.

DALLAS -- A friend whose iMac's hard drive had apparently died called recently, wondering how she might access the files on the failed drive. Because she was using a Mac, she had an option that PC ...