Archive for May, 2008

How I fared with 10.5.3

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Ok, back in February I bitched out 10.5.3 for not fixing issues I had, and introducing new ones. Here's the report card for 10.5.3 Old issues: Mail Bugs fixed: Zero. Mailbox behavior is the same. System Preferences Bugs fixed: 0/1 New Bugs introduced: Macbook drops Wireless connection frequently when on battery. Now, I didn't ...

Office 2008 SP1: Just how badly can MS screw up an install?

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008

Pretty damn badly, actually. Against my gut instinct, I loaded SP1 for Office 2008 on my Mac today. I'd heard of wonkyness with the install, but really, those kinda problems only happen to other people, right? Wrong. After installing the SP and loading Word, I got prompted with the Setup Assistant. I ...

Fully Integrating Scrivener into my writing flow

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

I mostly do two forms of writing: short, 1000-word columns for Massively, and anything required for school. School is either as simple as an essay, or as complicated as a heavily formatted document. I've been struggling with fully using Scrivener for a while. When I bought the program, it seemed great ...