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Yet another useful feature has been eliminated in Leopard. The audio controller that the Finder’s column view had for the preview pane when previewing audio files has been eliminated. Why? I don’t know. No logical explanation can come to mind. In Tiger, if you set your window’s view to the column view and point it [...]

One of the ugly new interface “features” of Leopard is its translucent menu bar. In my opinion it’s ugly, distracting and serves absolutely no useful purpose. I have no clue why any sane person at Apple would want to implement it. There have been many complaints about it on the internet since Leopard reached people’s [...]

Well, I’m excited about Leopard (Apple’s new OS), and of course, I pre-ordered it as soon as Apple started accepting pre-orders. It’s supposed to come in tomorrow on the 26th, and indeed, I received my notification of shipment from Apple with a tracking number. However, the tracking web page is nearly useless. Here is what [...]

After upgrading my four-year old Powermac tower to an All-in-one, Intel-based iMac, I needed to upgrade my Adobe applications in order to get the universal version. The experience hasn’t been thrilling; to put it mildly. First mistake: I got it from Adobe’s site. Adobe, in their attempt to use their own technologies on their own [...]