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Workflow Apps and Snow Leopard

Sep142009

I’ve had to rough it lately with my early adoption of Snow Leopard but things are getting better. Safari users running Snow Leopard should rejoice that MacHangout has put a beta of Glims up that doesn’t fail at life and fixes a number of bugs that previous betas had. Dropbox has a new version out that is fully Snow Leopard compatible but if you’re interested in the new LAN sync features and don’t mind risky software, check out version this thread. It fixes your versioning icons in the finder among other things.

Sadly, Agile Web Solutions has decided to make someone upgrade to 1Password 3 for Snow Leopard support. Growl isn’t compatible either. Wait until 1.2 comes out to update your Growl install.

For more questions on compatibility you can check this site for a MASSIVE list of software that isn’t always the most updated but should give you a head start on where an app is on compatibility.

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iPhone 3.1 My Butt

Sep142009

Tethering has been my lifeline to the outside world while at the fire station for 24 hours at a time. There are spotty wireless networks here and there but you have to be sitting outside to get decent signal. I had signed up for an ATT data card but when I started tethering my iPhone, I decided to pay the early termination fee and cancel the service. ATT eventually talked me into making it a family plan line for $9/month and credited me $50 all so I wouldn’t cancel the contract. Whatever, it saved me $60/month for 11 months.

So I’m tethering like a madman and this iPhone version 3.1 business comes out and there’s no way I’m going to upgrade and lose tethering just for some genius functions. I’m listening to suggestions but for the time being I’m just going to wait for help.benm.at to come up with a patch. I don’t want to go crazy. Good luck Ben.

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I like my new laptop, don’t get me wron…

Sep32009

I like my new laptop, don’t get me wrong, but I despise having to have an adapter to plug into different monitors. Digital projector? Where is that VGA adapter… Cinema display at work? Where is that DVI adapter… Why the hell do I have to have an adapter for both in the first place? I should be able to plug into SOMETHING without an adapter. Not to mention each adapter is $30.

What’s that? The new LED Cinema displays hook up to my laptop with no adapter, power the laptop and provide a USB hub? That’s great but that is one display. Name one more…

That’s what I thought.

friggin update: Older Apple Cinema display has crappy obscure DVI plug with rounded corners. Even with an adapter for DVI, my laptop can’t plug into this display without an additional adapter. One day, I won’t need these computers. I’ll just think internet and it’ll happen.

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So Adobe just announced that it isn’t g…

Aug262009

So Adobe just announced that it isn’t going to support CS3 on Snow Leopard so if you upgrade, be warned that if problems exist that they will NOT be fixed. This is on top of the fact that a requirement for Snow Leopard is an Intel processor. So let’s recap: To run Snow Leopard reliably you must have CS4 running on an Intel Mac. This is making the $30 upgrade a bit more costly for a lot of folks…

Say you get CS4, which isn’t currently supported under PowerPC architecture either, to be compatible, and you grab an Intel Mac. You just paid a minimum of around two grand AND the mac comes with Snow Leopard. This just may be the most expensive $30 you never spent.

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So I don’t post much. Nobody really ke…

Aug182009

So I don’t post much. Nobody really keeps a blog up do they? Well, I’m experimenting with a theme called P2 which seems to totally ripoff the idea of Twitter, but if it gets me posting again, who knows. Even stranger, i’s made by Automattic themselves! So I thought, what the hell, why not just DUAL POST! WordPress can post to twitter and twitter will send it to Facebook and people will see it on all fronts and it’ll get read.

Then we’ll all get sucked into a black hole for being to distributed.

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