Roxio’s Toast 6 appears to suffer from significant problems when it comes to multi-session CDs. For example, I have a CD-R with three separate sessions on it. The first one (Session 1) is 117.4 MB. The second one (Session 2) is 180.2 MB. And the third one (Session 3) is 168.4 MB. When I insert […]
The November 10 edition of TidBITS has an article by Jeff Carlson on “Panther Application Improvements“. It’s not exactly in-depth, but makes a number of valid points. For example: Unfortunately, a nasty and obvious bug still exists in this new version: if you’re editing a contact and need to undo what you typed into a […]
Something is definitely not right with Panther and AirPort-based connections, at least in my setup. I haven’t been able to get things to improve in the past couple of days. My AirPort software is up-to-date (3.2) — although the AirPort Admin Utility hasn’t requested that I update the firmware on the AirPort Base Station itself […]
I’ve been using Panther for a few days now, and I am starting to see some patterns emerging… And it’s not good news for certain aspects of the Mac OS X experience. My problems have to do with networking mostly. I’ve already described the flakiness of the AirPort menu and the AirPort status in the […]
As discussed earlier, Panther unfortunately reintroduces problems with the AirPort menu that had been fixed with incremental updates in Jaguar. The problems, however, are not limited to the AirPort menu. Since that menu no longer features the ability to connect/disconnect the modem inside the AirPort Base Station (which I use for my dialup connection to […]
Since I am a regular user of Spell Catcher X, I am all too aware of the problems that have plagued Mac OS X’s support for alternative “input methods” since the beginning. Even under the latest version of Jaguar (10.2.8) and with the latest version of Spell Catcher X (1.0.2) and even with the Jaguar […]
Luck had a large part to play in today’s game, which was not very impressive either from Tottenham or from Arsenal’s point of view. It was a typical derby match with most players doing their best to get their opponents booked, by exaggerating their falls and being generally obnoxious. Tottenham were lucky to get in […]
I’ve been experiencing problems in Excel X since upgrading to Panther. The problems have to do with number formats. My default date and number formats for Mac OS X, as defined in the “International” control pane in System Preferences, are “French Canadian”, which means, for example, that my decimal separator is a comma (,) and […]
I’ve now added redirects so that this blog can easily be accessed using shorter URLs. The following URLs are now all redirected to the Betalogue home page: http://betalogue.latext.com http://www.latext.com/betalogue/ As well, I have registered and parked the domain name betalogue.com (you never know) and now the following URL: https://www.betalogue.com is automatically redirected to the LATEXT […]
All is not rosy in Mail 1.3, of course. One annoying bug is that, if you have filters (rules) that change the text color of certain messages, the color changes when the messages first arrive. But then if you do something with the messages — i.e. reply to them, or forward them — the text […]
Previous versions of Mail suffered from a strange case of non-spatial behavior. If you had already double-clicked on a message to open it in a separate window, and if you double-clicked on the same message again, Mail would open the same message in a second separate window, etc. You could easily end up with 10 […]
For those using the great “Save/Restore Tabs/Pages” AppleScript scripts for Safari, you might find that the scripts no longer work after upgrading to Panther. Fear not. It’s actually only because the Panther installation has reset the “Enable access for assistive devices” option in “Universal Access” (in System Preferences). Just check the option again, and the […]
I am enjoying most of the improvements in Panther’s Finder so far. Whether you like the brushed-metal look or not, the functionality is much better. I especially like the Sidebar and the fact that its content is automatically resized depending on the overall size of the Finder window. But there’s one thing that bothers me […]
Mail 1.3 introduces new features for handling email attachments. Unfortunately, it appears that these new features also introduce new bugs or problems. First of all, in my experience the “Save All” button in the Attachments area in the message header is very unreliable. More often than not, when I try to handle attachments in that […]
Here’s yet another reason to revise my initial (and rather negative) appraisal of the new Mail application in Panther. The way the application handles errors while checking mail is much improved. Long-time readers of this blog know that I have very little bandwidth (28.8 kbps) and that the error messages in previous versions of Mail […]