I love the new Mail in Leopard, the new Mac OS. I tried subscribing to a couple of RSS feeds this morning, including the Simmons employee announcements, and the campus announcements. Within Firefox, I had to choose "Mail" as the application that I wanted to use to subscribe to the feed.
The campus announcements feed came right up, and I was able to see the last 20 announcements right there in my email box--very convenient! The campus announcements prompted me for my username and password, and then some component within email warned me and asked if I wanted it to keep personal information. A good reminder about security. I said: yep, go ahead. The messages in that feed didn't appear, though.
I opened some other messages, deleted a bunch, and then opened a message and tried to forward it. Mail crashed. There was nothing going on in the Mail Activity box at the time. I'll bet Mail is a little buggy, as it was when Tiger was unveiled (or was it Jaguar?).
After Mail quit, and I told it to submit a report to Apple, I re-opened Mail and the employee announcement feed is there with 15 entries, and Mail is working normally again.
Posted: November 1, 2007 8:51 am | 1 comment
Tags: Apple Mail, email applications, Mac Leopard OS, OS testing
Like new Leopard Mail. But can't seem to save an attachment to a location of my own choosing, on a case by case basis. I don't want to choose one default location. I want to save a particular attachment to one location, and another attachment to another location.
Posted: November 1, 2007 9:31 am | 2 comments
Tags: Apple Mail, email applications, Mac Leopard OS
I just tried to use Spaces. I have two Spaces. I switched from one to the other using F8. I'd seen in the demo that you can drag one apps into another Space before switching to that Space.
I dragged MS Word into the second space, and entered the 2nd space. But my title bar of my Word document then wouldn't let me move the Word document down below the Word toolbars. When I tried to click in the document and edit, some of the document's text spilled over the bottom of Word's document window, and I couldn't edit the document. This is behavior similar to what I experienced several years ago when opening certain documents originally created in Word for Windows.
I tried opening another application to see if Leopard would redraw the screen properly. That didn't work. I quit Word, opened it again in the 2nd space, then opened the document and everything was fine.
I don't think Spaces likes having an open Word doc dragged into a new space through its F8 feature.
Posted: November 1, 2007 12:19 pm | 0 comments
Tags: Apple Spaces, Mac Leopard OS, Microsoft Word 2004, OS testing
From David Bruce, a link to another review:
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/os/mac-os-x-10-5.ars
This one is really long, and so may have parts of interest to many different audiences. The first part goes over the graphical user interface. Then it moves on to the underlying kernel. Then I stopped reading!
Posted: November 2, 2007 11:52 am | 0 comments
Tags: Mac Leopard OS
My trip to Educause 2007 rejuvenated my geek interests. This weekend I posted a few pictures to Flickr so I could think about how I could use Flickr. I use Kodak Gallery to order prints, and wouldn't want to upload all of my snapshots to Flickr. Perhaps, though, I might upload select photos I'd like to share.
Here's one I posted from my trip to Seattle for Educause (after the conference was over!). If you click on the image, you'll go right to the Flickr page where it "resides."
Flickr gave me the text to paste into the blog when I clicked on the "see different sizes" link under "additional information." After I posted this entry on the blog and took a look, I noticed the image width was too wide for the blog, so I went back to Flickr and chose the "small" version.
At this size, the challenge becomes: spot the kid who climbed up the rock (top roped)!
Posted: November 5, 2007 1:46 pm | 0 comments
Tags: flickr, Seattle
