I don’t know it is bad luck or something else, but I have certainly experienced my share of hardware flaws and failures with Apple products over the years. I am not talking about more or less predictable failures here, like conventional hard drives failing after a few years, or power adapter cords becoming frayed (although […]
When I was young and careless, I used to love being an early adopter of new technology, including computer technology. This meant that I often installed new system releases as soon as they became available, come what may. I was even quite excited when I was invited to join the AppleSeed program back in the […]
For me, the problem started as soon as I upgraded to OS X 10.9 (Mavericks). I started seeing all kinds of unsightly video corruption artefacts on web pages in Safari, like this one (click to enlarge): The video corruption artefacts are static or sometimes “dynamic”, with actual flickering taking place in real time. (Needless to […]
What’s the point of submitting bug reports? That’s the question I used to ask myself when it came to Microsoft and its crappy software, but I must say I am increasingly asking myself the exact same thing with Apple and its own software offerings. The two pieces of Apple software that I use the most […]
Alright, if you are in Safari, go to this item posted by someone on Twitter (chosen randomly), and then click on the link provided in the tweet (pic.twitter.com/ozBCyAmJ). This should normally take you to a new window with the picture in question and the Safari window’s title bar and address bar should look like this: […]
The one thing I hate the most about cloud-based computing is the sense that I have lost control, that the computer does things on my behalf with very little input or feedback, and that things can fairly easily go wrong. And so I tend to avoid it like the plague. That said, as a tech […]
I don’t know if it’s just me, but there’s definitely something that is not right with Safari’s Resume feature in Mountain Lion on my machine. Well-behaved OS X applications follow the “Close windows when quitting an application” setting in System Preferences › General: If the option is not checked, when I re-open those well-behaved applications, […]
Among other glitches that I have noticed with the latest version of Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.2), there is the fact that the “Hot Corners” feature accessible via the Screen Saver preference pane in System Preferences no longer works reliably. I use hot corners to put my displays to sleep. I have two 30″ monitors […]
Apart from the kernel panics, OS X 10.8.2 is a fine release (it fixes the most outrageous flaw in Mountain Lion, which was the crazy behaviour of the Save As architecture). But it sure feels rather glitchy to me. I’ve already talked about the selection highlighting issues after hiding background applications. The problem is on-going. […]
Apple has just released a small system update called “OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.2 Supplemental Update”. While the information provided on the release’s page makes no mention of the kernel panic issue or a possible fix, I have proceeded with the installation of the update and it does indeed modify one of the “IO” files […]
I first read about this a few days ago, over at MacInTouch. I was able to confirm this myself, so I thought I should report on it and add to the chorus of voices asking for a fix. I bought a new Mac Pro (2 x 2.26 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon) with a few bells […]
It used to be that Mac OS X’s Finder application would only save its current status—i.e. its currently open windows, along with each window’s size and position—when quit. Since Mac OS X’s Finder does not have a “Quit Finder” command in its application window, the only way to quit it is to go through the […]
Using Apple’s Time Capsule for Time Machine-controlled backups for my wife has been a rather frustrating experience. (I don’t use Time Machine or the Time Capsule for my own backups, because I have long used my own SuperDuper!-based automatic backup scheme. But I do use the Time Capsule as a remote disk for manual backups […]
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 […]
A correction to yesterday’s post: Some mouse tracking problems remain.