By ray | December 2, 2007
I decided it was time to move out of Adobe LightRoom (which I’d be running under a eval license key) and back into Aperture. I found LightRoom easier to use, especially to organize photos, but there’s no way I could justify the $299 price. Since I already have Aperture there’s really no price for which [...]
By ray | November 27, 2007
While I’m very hapy with OS X 10.5 Leopard overall and don’t regret the upgrade there are some things that annoy me or a outright bugs.
Let’s get the translucent menu bar and menus out of the way. The translucent menu bar doesn’t bother me because I use a dark background. Still, the translucent menus are [...]
Posted in Mac OS X | Also tagged leopard |
By ray | October 29, 2007
Just as Time Machine was beginning to grow on me as a viable backup option I ran into my first annoyance. And it is annoying.
Until now Time Machine ran almost unnoticed by me. But tonight I had a Parallels VM open for several hours. The good news is that Time Machine didn’t seem to be [...]
By ray | September 8, 2007
Seems like we just had a brief outage. I went to the site to start working on a post and got a timeout error. About a minute after the timeout I tried again and got in. But then I got an automated email from SiteUptime that my site was down so it wasn’t just me. [...]
Posted in Quick Bits | Tagged frustration |
Updated 8/28: See section in red block. Mozy released MacMozy 0.6.2.2 (23015), their online backup software for the Mac which is still in beta. This release was a reminder to me about the downside of beta software. I upgraded both my iMac and my Macbook. The MacBook upgrade went relatively well. I’d describe it as [...]
It’s always something. Just when I think everything’s going along fine I find a problem. The problem defies solution until I finally reach a point where the solution may be worse than living with the problem.
The problem was resolved relatively painlessly. See the bottom of this post for the update.
Sometime between July 30th and August [...]
Posted in Wordpress | Tagged frustration |
