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Betalogue » Word for Windows documents in Mac OS X: Apple’s Pages more compatible than Word 2008
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Notes from an unfinished world. Word for Windows documents in Mac OS X: Apple’s Pages more compatible than Word 2008. Posted by Pierre Igot in: Microsoft. April 22nd, 2008 5:29 pm. Here’s a Word document that was authored on a PC and that I tried to open on my Mac with Microsoft Word 2008:. And here’s the exact same document when I opened it with Apple’s Pages 3:. Pretty sad, isn’t it? Now, of course, this is just one particular file. I don’t have a lab of full-time technicians to test thousand...Out of ...
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Betalogue » Mountain Lion’s Mail: Selection highlighting issues after hiding application in background
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Notes from an unfinished world. Mountain Lion’s Mail: Selection highlighting issues after hiding application in background. Posted by Pierre Igot in: Macintosh. September 20th, 2012 7:52 am. There are on-going issues with Mac OS X’s Mail application when it comes to selection highlighting. Some of them date back to the first release of Lion. Others are new to recent builds of Mountain Lion. But they all are issues that Apple does not seem to care much about or be in any hurry to fix. Then, after I switch...
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Betalogue » OS X 10.10 (Yosemite): Unacceptable levels of responsiveness
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Notes from an unfinished world. OS X 10.10 (Yosemite): Unacceptable levels of responsiveness. Posted by Pierre Igot in: Macintosh. November 27th, 2014 10:32 am. Then along came Yosemite. I didn’t upgrade until the official 10.10.1 version came out. Last Thursday, I downloaded the OS X 10.10.1 package from the App Store and installed it. As system upgrades go, it was relatively painless. I had made sure that all my applications were up to date, and that known issues. I did what an experienced troubleshoot...
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Betalogue » Mail
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Notes from an unfinished world. Archive for the 'Mail' Category. Laquo; Previous Entries. My experience with OS X 10.11 (El Capitan) on my 2014 Mac Pro. Friday, March 18th, 2016 6:16 pm. Posted in Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame. OS X Activity Monitor: Yet more evidence of Apple’s sloppy work in Yosemite. Friday, March 13th, 2015 5:00 pm. Mail: Unable to update thread heading automatically. Saturday, January 25th, 2014 4:45 pm. Generally speaking, I don’t loathe OS X’s Mail as an email client like other peop...
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Betalogue » Responsiveness problems in Yosemite: Menu-delay bug caused by ‘Reduce transparency’ option?
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Notes from an unfinished world. Responsiveness problems in Yosemite: Menu-delay bug caused by ‘Reduce transparency’ option? Posted by Pierre Igot in: Macintosh. December 19th, 2014 7:09 pm. 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. As soon as I installed Yosemit...
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Betalogue » OS X 10.10 (Yosemite): Preview fails to keep up with fast window resizing (continued)
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Notes from an unfinished world. OS X 10.10 (Yosemite): Preview fails to keep up with fast window resizing (continued). Posted by Pierre Igot in: Macintosh. March 9th, 2015 1:31 pm. Since my original post about a bug with window resizing in Preview in Yosemite. I have received feedback indicating that not everyone is able to reproduce this bug on their system. In my original post, I indicated that, in order to reproduce the problem, you really had to use very quick mouse movements. So in the interest of f...
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Betalogue » OS X 10.10 (Yosemite): Responsiveness problems not solved by clean install
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Notes from an unfinished world. OS X 10.10 (Yosemite): Responsiveness problems not solved by clean install. Posted by Pierre Igot in: Macintosh. December 8th, 2014 10:29 am. I just don’t understand. Last week I reported about noticeable responsiveness issues. That I was experiencing with OS X 10.10.1 (Yosemite) on my 2014 Mac Pro:. Visibly slow drawing of the blue highlighting behind the Help. Menu heading in the menu bar;. Folder, which contains over 200 .kext. Files) with the Magic Mouse;. Ben was very...
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Betalogue » OS X 10.10.3: Fixes major responsiveness issues on 2014 Mac Pro
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Notes from an unfinished world. OS X 10.10.3: Fixes major responsiveness issues on 2014 Mac Pro. Posted by Pierre Igot in: Macintosh. April 15th, 2015 6:03 pm. This has been a very traumatic few months for me as a Mac user. As indicated in several previous. I purchased a new Mac Pro along with a new 4K display back in July 2014. The machine shipped with Mavericks and worked pretty well until I upgraded to Yosemite. As an experienced troubleshooter myself, I went through all kinds of steps to try and isol...
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Betalogue » Numbers 3.5: Keeps displaying time in date cells with no time
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Notes from an unfinished world. Numbers 3.5: Keeps displaying time in date cells with no time. Posted by Pierre Igot in: Macintosh. November 27th, 2014 4:56 pm. At the same time I upgraded my Mac Pro to Yosemite last week. I decided to upgrade to the latest versions of Pages and Numbers. Because of the disastrous changes made by Apple. In Pages 5 compared to Pages ’09, I have permanently switched to Nisus Writer Pro. As my default word processor, and I have no intention of going back. One particular anno...
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