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Comment on Mac OS X 10.7.4 Update: Breaks compatibility with French dictionary Le Grand Robert by Betalogue » Grand Robert and OS X 10.7.4: Update on the way

Betalogue » Grand Robert and OS X 10.7.4: Update on the way — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:06:12 +0000

[...] week I wrote about an incompatibility introduced by the OS X 10.7.4 update with the French dictionary application Le Grand [...]

Comment on Adobe CS6 Installer: Continuing a proud tradition of user hostility by Betalogue » Adobe: Now that you’ve upgraded, would you like to upgrade?

Betalogue » Adobe: Now that you’ve upgraded, would you like to upgrade? — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:52:15 +0000

[...] week I wrote about my experience upgrading my Adobe CS5.5 Master Suite of applications to Adobe CS6. While I didn’t mention this [...]

Comment on Mac OS X 10.7.4 Update: Breaks compatibility with French dictionary Le Grand Robert by Yummy, delicious humble pie | Kawaii's Blog

Yummy, delicious humble pie | Kawaii's Blog — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:51:26 +0000

[...] the last several days I’ve reflecting on the post I made in reference to the article ( link ) and on reflection I realised I came off like a complete dick head and in retrospect although I [...]

Comment on Adobe Creative Suite 5 installation process by Betalogue » Adobe CS6 Installer: Continuing a proud tradition of user hostility

Sat, 12 May 2012 16:07:29 +0000

[...] am not complaining, but since most of my criticism remained unanswered and I continued to report on subsequent versions of the suite and their flaws on this blog, I haven’t been invited back, and so now I am just another paying [...]

Comment on Mac OS X 10.7.4 Update: Breaks compatibility with French dictionary Le Grand Robert by A whinge, whine and an update | Kawaii's Blog

A whinge, whine and an update | Kawaii's Blog — Sat, 12 May 2012 03:05:13 +0000

[...] with the ability to reply and correct their assertions. Take this noble prize winning bell end ( link ), whines about a bug in his favourite application but it is apparently Apple’s [...]

Comment on Adobe CS4: Yet another lousy Adobe installer by Betalogue » Adobe CS6 Installer: Continuing a proud tradition of user hostility

Wed, 09 May 2012 21:19:42 +0000

[...] the installation process for previous versions of the software over the years, most notably Adobe CS4, in a blog post that attracted quite a bit of coverage and ended up prompting an Adobe [...]

Comment on iTunes 10.5: Usable again by Betalogue » iTunes Performance Tip: Stay away from separate windows for playlists

Mon, 07 May 2012 21:10:57 +0000

[...] I have a very large music collection and for years now I have been struggling with iTunes’s poor performance levels. Things have been fluctuating somewhat over time, with some releases being nearly unusable and others somewhat better. [...]

Comment on iTunes 10.4: Adding files no longer works reliably by Betalogue » iTunes Performance Tip: Stay away from separate windows for playlists

Mon, 07 May 2012 21:05:36 +0000

[...] poor performance levels. Things have been fluctuating somewhat over time, with some releases being nearly unusable and other somewhat [...]

Comment on Mac OS X: How to create an encrypted Zip archive of a folder by Dega's blog » Blog Archive » Come fare: creare archivi ZIP su Mac

Dega's blog » Blog Archive » Come fare: creare archivi ZIP su Mac — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 05:40:43 +0000

[...] Apparentemente esiste anche una funzionalità di OSX che vi permette di creare archivi criptati (protetti da password), ma non è integrata nell’interfaccia utente e deve essere quindi richiamata da riga di comando tramite il Terminale: [...]

Comment on Broadband at last (sort of) by Betalogue » Lion and Internet bandwidth

Betalogue » Lion and Internet bandwidth — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 17:37:59 +0000

[...] might remember, in my previous location, for many years I was limited to dial-up. Then I had to use satellite-based Internet access. And finally I had access to a local wireless service. But none of these options was ever [...]

Comment on Going SSD by Betalogue » Lion and hard drive failure

Betalogue » Lion and hard drive failure — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:59:51 +0000

[...] soon as I did that, the Mac Pro started booting, not from my normal startup volume, which is an SSD drive, but from the internal backup of that SSD drive, which is a regular hard drive. The entire booting [...]

Comment on MacBook: Can’t boot from CD with defective hard drive by Betalogue » Lion and hard drive failure

Betalogue » Lion and hard drive failure — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:59:04 +0000

[...] if I had a general hardware failure and not just a disk failure? At that point, I was remembering my experience of a couple of years ago, when I had to fix a MacBook that wouldn’t even boot from disk and discovered that a simple hard [...]

Comment on Lion (Mac OS X 10.7): A flea-ridden cat by Betalogue » Lion and hard drive failure

Betalogue » Lion and hard drive failure — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:54:06 +0000

[...] applications were frozen solid. It is not the first time this has happened to me. As I indicated in this post a couple of months ago, there is an on-going issue with Lion and SuperDuper! backups. The [...]

Comment on Office 2011 14.1 Update: Still does not support file names with slashes by Betalogue » Office 2011 Service Pack 2

Betalogue » Office 2011 Service Pack 2 — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:46:07 +0000

[...] the updater fixes none of the most glaring issues, including, for example, the fact that you cannot include a forward slash in your file name. (Word 2011 will refuse to open it.) Given that the Service Pack only weighs a little over 100 MB, [...]

Comment on Word 2011: Still significantly broken by Betalogue » Office 2011 Service Pack 2

Betalogue » Office 2011 Service Pack 2 — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 19:54:31 +0000

[...] course, the installer is the usual load of crap, forcing you to quit Safari in order to proceed with the installation, whether you care to use any [...]