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 [...]
I am afraid it looks like Apple has made a blooper in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard).
Regular Betalogue readers might remember that, as part of my job, I manage an Apple Xserve (G4 model) running Mac OS X Server version 10.3.9 (Panther).
It’s an old machine (over five years old), but it’s running fine, and we [...]
Following my recent misadventures with a damaged Time Capsule backup disk image causing repeated kernel panics, and some reader feedback about the issue, I downloaded a small third-party utility called TimeMachineEditor.
It is a simple application whose sole purpose is to enable you to customize the schedule of Time Machine backups.
I have reasons to suspect that [...]
I bought a 1 TB Time Capsule a couple of months ago, when they first came out, primarily as a seamless backup solution for my wife. I have my own backup strategies for my work station, but my wife depended on being regularly reminded of the importance of backups, etc. I figured that a Time [...]
The genius of Microsoft’s Mac engineers at work.
I don’t know what Apple’s engineers did to the progress bars in Mac OS X 10.5’s applications, but they sure are much less useful than they used to be.
A progress bar is, as the name implies, a way to indicate the progress of an action that takes a long time, so that the user gets [...]
Ghost track changes that are still there even though they are no longer there. Only in Microsoftland.
Yet another fundamental rule of Mac OS X computing broken by Microsoft.
When deleting does not delete.
Steps that can be used to reproduce this dangerous Leopard bug.
This release was a long time coming, and yet fixes very little.
A bug that can cause two windows to appear to be in the foreground at the same time.
A bug in Leopard’s Mail that should be fixed pronto—along with many others.
A small, but not insignificant inconsistency in selection deletion in both Word and Pages.