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“Air Play” (MP3 file – 160 kbps – size: 6.0 MB – duration: 05:11)

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This post is the conclusion of my investigation of the responsiveness issues I have been experiencing while browsing the Apple Store web site in Mac OS X. It comes after this post and this post, and combines the feedback I have received from various people and the further testing I have been doing.

Here are the [...]

Following my post last week about the poor performance of the Apple Store web site in Safari on my machine with limited bandwidth, I received an e-mail from a reader who suggested that I turn off JavaScript in Safari:

Safari has poor Javascript performance compared to other browsers and having a high latency connection like Satellite [...]

I’ve been shopping at the on-line Apple Store for a few years now and every time I vist the site, it’s the same thing: pages take forever to load, and quite often something in the content of the page causes Safari to temporarily become completely unresponsive, with the Spinning Beach Ball of Death.

I am quite [...]

A short while ago, Adobe released a stand-alone updater for InDesign CS3 (version 5.0.3). Today, I got around to downloading it and installing it on my machine.

I expected yet another lousy experience with Adobe’s Mac OS X software, and I was not disappointed. After the customary request for my administrator’s password (without even an attempt [...]

“Hit’n’Run” (MP3 file – 160 kbps – size: 6.9 MB – duration: 06:01)

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