If, like me, you have been working with layout and typesetting programs for decades, you usually notice such changes more clearly than those who have only recently entered this world. I have seen many things come and go over the years: In the early nineties, I worked on the Atari ST with Calamus SL and later, under Windows, with CorelDraw! Later came QuarkXPress, then iCalamus, Adobe InDesign - and finally, a few years ago, Affinity Publisher. Since then, the Affinity suite has accompanied me through almost all my book projects. Over the years, it has been a reliable tool, pleasantly straightforward, clearly structured and free of the ballast that many large software houses have added to themselves over the years.
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Articles about the Apple Mac in business. Topics include productivity, integration into company processes, software solutions and personal experience reports.
Apple MLX vs. NVIDIA: How local AI inference works on the Mac
Anyone working with artificial intelligence today often first thinks of ChatGPT or similar online services. You type in a question, wait a few seconds - and receive an answer as if a very well-read, patient conversation partner were sitting at the other end of the line. But what is easily forgotten: Every input, every sentence, every word travels via the Internet to external servers. That's where the real work is done - on huge computers that you never get to see yourself.
In principle, a local language model works in exactly the same way - but without the Internet. The model is stored as a file on the user's own computer, is loaded into the working memory at startup and answers questions directly on the device. The technology behind it is the same: a neural network that understands language, generates texts and recognizes patterns. The only difference is that the entire calculation remains in-house. You could say: ChatGPT without the cloud.
Integration of MLX in FileMaker 2025: Local AI as the new standard
While MLX originally started as an experimental framework from Apple Research, a quiet but significant development has taken place in recent months: With the release of FileMaker 2025, Claris has firmly integrated MLX into the server as a native AI infrastructure for Apple Silicon. This means that anyone working with a Mac and relying on Apple Silicon can not only run MLX models locally, but also use them directly in FileMaker - with native functions, without any intermediate layers.
Local AI on the Mac: How to install a language model with Ollama
Local AI on the Mac has long been practical - especially on Apple-Silicon computers (M series). With Ollama you get a lean runtime environment for many open source language models (e.g. Llama 3.1/3.2, Mistral, Gemma, Qwen). The current Ollama version now also comes with a user-friendly app that allows you to set up a local language model on your Mac at the click of a mouse. In this article you will find a pragmatic guide from installation to the first prompt - with practical tips on where things traditionally go wrong.
What to do if the WLAN regularly drops out under OS X Lion?
I have been running my Wi-Fi network with a FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN for about a year, which has worked perfectly under Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Since I recently switched to a new iMac with OS X Lion, the Wi-Fi has become extremely unstable. The iMac with the new Apple operating system lost the wireless network at irregular intervals and could no longer access the Internet. The Wi-Fi interruption was not noticeable from the outside - the Wi-Fi icon in the menu bar remained at full deflection, but access to the Internet was no longer possible. A short-term remedy was to deactivate Wi-Fi and then reactivate it - until the next time the Wi-Fi connection was lost. Strangely enough, this phenomenon even extended to my iPad, which also lost the Wi-Fi connection at irregular intervals. How this problem can be solved permanently in conjunction with a FRITZ!Box Fon WLAN is described below.
Apple at the dentist: First practice with Mac OS X without Windows.
In Düsseldorf, the first dental practice to completely dispense with the use of Windows systems was opened in collaboration with Apple specialist Dirk Küpper. The entire administration of the dental practice as well as all professional and specialist equipment is controlled using the Apple Mac OS X operating system. The owner of the dental practice is extremely satisfied with the result so far: "Since ... Read more
Is a Apple Mac the better FileMaker PC?
After years of experience, first as an administrator of Windows systems and later as a user of Apple computers, I can confirm that a Apple Mac is generally better suited for FileMaker than a Windows PC. The first and ultimately simplest reason: A Mac is simply more compatible than a Windows PC, as the Mac runs the Apple operating system Mac OS X ... Read more