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Comment on iTunes 11.0.1: Fixes Column Browser issues and improves performance by Betalogue » Swinsian: Fantastic iTunes replacement for music collectors

Betalogue » Swinsian: Fantastic iTunes replacement for music collectors — Tue, 07 May 2013 18:49:45 +0000

[...] I decided that I had finally had enough. While the iTunes 11.0.1 update released in late 2012 did address some of the worst issues introduced with iTunes 11, I still found myself constantly looking at the Spinning Beach Ball of [...]

Comment on Christmas Wish List: iTunes Pro by Betalogue » Swinsian: Fantastic iTunes replacement for music collectors

Betalogue » Swinsian: Fantastic iTunes replacement for music collectors — Tue, 07 May 2013 17:28:56 +0000

[...] the introduction of some kind of version of iTunes optimized for music collectors — a kind of iTunes Pro, if you will. But of course, hoping that Apple itself would release such a product is nothing more [...]

Comment on Word 2011: Header formatting madness (part III) by Michael Tsai - Blog - Word 2011: Header Formatting Madness

Michael Tsai - Blog - Word 2011: Header Formatting Madness — Mon, 06 May 2013 19:15:20 +0000

[...] Pierre Igot: [...]

Comment on Word 2011: Header formatting madness (continued) by Betalogue » Word 2011: Header formatting madness (part III)

Betalogue » Word 2011: Header formatting madness (part III) — Sun, 05 May 2013 12:30:42 +0000

[...] text in the header, even though it didn’t look any different from regular text, was actually a reference to metadata associated with the Word [...]

Comment on Word 2011: Header formatting madness by Betalogue » Word 2011: Header formatting madness (part III)

Betalogue » Word 2011: Header formatting madness (part III) — Sun, 05 May 2013 12:30:27 +0000

[...] have received more feedback about the issue with character-level formatting in the header of a Word document that I was working on the other [...]

Comment on Word 2011: Header formatting madness by Betalogue » Word 2011: Header formatting madness (continued)

Betalogue » Word 2011: Header formatting madness (continued) — Sat, 04 May 2013 13:43:41 +0000

[...] now have a partial explanation for the mad behaviour of the header text in a Word document that I described in a post yesterday. A reader has written to indicate that he believes the text in the header in that document is not [...]

Comment on First kernel panic since installing OS X 10.8.2 Supplemental Update by Betalogue » Mac OS X 10.8.3 update: Fails to fix kernel panics

Betalogue » Mac OS X 10.8.3 update: Fails to fix kernel panics — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 20:11:34 +0000

[...] Update” that updated one of the kernel extensions involved in the crash. Unfortunately, it did not eliminate the kernel [...]

Comment on Adobe CS4: Yet another lousy Adobe installer by Friday Links – May 11, 2012 - vanlandw.com

Friday Links – May 11, 2012 - vanlandw.com — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 18:05:16 +0000

[...] a disaster. The CS4 install story is the best read but still, Adobe needs to pick it [...]

Comment on Mac OS X 10.8.2 Supplemental Update: Updates IOPCIFamily.kext by Betalogue » Mac OS X 10.8.3 update: Fails to fix kernel panics

Betalogue » Mac OS X 10.8.3 update: Fails to fix kernel panics — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:17:40 +0000

[...] has happened since? In October, Apple released a “Mac OS X 10.8.2 Supplemental Update” that updated one of the kernel extensions involved in the crash. Unfortunately, it did not [...]

Comment on Mountain Lion’s Safari: Does not resume properly after restart by Betalogue » Mac OS X 10.8.3 update: Fails to fix kernel panics

Betalogue » Mac OS X 10.8.3 update: Fails to fix kernel panics — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:01:16 +0000

[...] (like Preview, or Numbers ’09) completely fail to resume after a restart, and that some others, like Safari, resume from a state that is not the very last state before the restart, these on-going kernel [...]

Comment on Kernel panics with OS X 18.2: A known issue by Betalogue » Mac OS X 10.8.3 update: Fails to fix kernel panics

Betalogue » Mac OS X 10.8.3 update: Fails to fix kernel panics — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 13:01:01 +0000

[...] early builds of the Mac OS X 10.8.2 update last summer. In late September, Apple even sent me a reply acknowledging that this was a “known issue” and closing my bug report as a “duplicate”. And there are [...]

Comment on The problem with e-mail as a professional communication tool by Betalogue » iCloud’s silent email filtering: What’s the solution?

Betalogue » iCloud’s silent email filtering: What’s the solution? — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 21:12:27 +0000

[...] is why I was advocating for some kind of universal automatic mechanism for acknowledging receipt of e-mails several years ago, and my views haven’t really changed. Unlike direct, live [...]

Comment on Pages ’12: Top 3 list of improvements by Betalogue » Word 2011: A mind of its own?

Betalogue » Word 2011: A mind of its own? — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:17:01 +0000

[...] Long-time Betalogue readers know that I could write about how crappy Microsoft Word is all day long. However, there is only so much you can say before the sheer inanity of the thing makes you want to do unspeakable things to a Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer voodoo doll. At that stage, I guess you just have to let it go and try to write about how superior Pages ’09 is instead (even though it is, of course, far from perfect). [...]

Comment on Safari’s history and URL shorteners: Pretty useless by Betalogue » URLs for Google search results: now cruft-free?

Betalogue » URLs for Google search results: now cruft-free? — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 22:46:21 +0000

[...] week, I wrote about the problem with shortened URLs in Safari’s History feature. A reader wrote to express his agreement and also mention similar issues he was experiencing with [...]

Comment on Apple ID security: Should I be worried? by iPad Troubleshooting: Help, I can't use my Apple ID! | iPad-Problems.com

iPad Troubleshooting: Help, I can't use my Apple ID! | iPad-Problems.com — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 05:41:43 +0000

[...] Apple ID security: Should I be worried? [...]