Okay, I give up. I just disabled Spaces. Let me count the reasons why:
- While putting Word into Space 1 prevented Word from crashing as frequently, using PowerPoint (2004) in Space 1 still led to PowerPoint telling me that the file on the file server I had open had been locked (by me) and so I had to save the file to a new name. Repeatedly.
- Today I had PowerPoint and 1 mail message open in Space 1, Firefox and Mail open in Space 2, and iTunes open in Space 3. I started using iTunes U, which required flipping back and forth between Firefox, my Mail, and iTunes. I clicked on Mail in the dock, and the space wouldn't flip. I moved the 1 mail message back to the rest of my mail in Space 2 and clicked on Mail in the doc--still the space wouldn't flip. I clicked on Firefox, I couldn't get to Space 2. Finally, I couldn't move from any space to any other without going into Spaces itself, or the Expose shortcut.
Okay, so that's only 2 reasons, but I've really had it. Which stinks, because I love Spaces, and if it worked, it would make me more productive.
As for the Adobe products: something's still buggy between Leopard and CS3. For example, there are times when I choose the crop tool, type in measurements, and try to crop: the crop measurements don't stick. Sometimes they do stick, and then when I try to remove them from the toolbar, it looks as though I deleted the measurements, but the crop tool is still sticking to the deleted measurements. This happens at home consistently, but I'm pretty sure it happened at work too.
Then there are the CS3 updates, which take forever to load.
Leopard, oh Leopard, when will you stabilize?
Posted: January 4, 2008 12:42 pm | 1 comment
Tags: Adobe Photoshop, Apple Spaces, Mac Leopard OS, PowerPoint 2004
I've written before about how I sync Meeting Maker to iCal, and then iCal to my iPhone using a very out-of-date applescript. I've noticed enough times now that I can say it's true: when I have appointments in Meeting Maker booked at the same exact time, they don't make it into iCal.
That is, if I have two appointments from 9 am - 11:30 pm, the AppleScript will move one of them to iCal, but not the other. Inevitably, the one it doesn't move is the one meeting of the two that I really need to attend.
What I'm afraid I really need to do is stop using the Banner feature in Meeting Maker so that I can start using the iCal export instead of the text export. As a former Palm user, I've always used Banners, or "untimed events," to keep track of birthdays. Since the iPhone doesn't keep as much information in its address book as the address book on my computer does (e.g. the relationship fields don't sync), I'm hesitant to isolate birthdays in my address book.
What has probably occurred to iCalendar users well before it occurred to me is that I should create "all day" events in a separate iCalendar calendar for all of the birthdays I track. Then I can sync that to the iPhone, and they'll appear the way I want them to. I think. Maybe.
Oh wait, but I can't trust using the iCal export until I know that Apple has fixed the bug I wrote about before, because otherwise, if I need to overwrite the iCalendar calendar, it'll notify everyone as though I'm canceling the meeting in Meeting Maker, even though I'm not.
Posted: January 8, 2008 7:38 pm | 1 comment
Tags: Apple iCal, Calendar synchronization, iPhone, Mac Leopard OS, Meeting Maker
Shaun sent out this link to a TidBITS page about iPhone security. It's all good advice. You should definitely set up your email in a secured fashion through an application such as Apple Mail and then sync those secure settings to your iPhone. The Simmons secure settings on on the Set up Email Software page.
I'm not going to be able to get myself to send everything on my iPhone through a VPN (virtual private network), though, so instead I'm following a different rule: if you're on a wireless network, don't go shopping.
When I'm surfing with my iPhone, or on my iBook on my home wireless network, I don't type in my credit card number, or log in to shopping sites. On the other hand, I do log into my flickr site, which simultaneously logs me into my yahoo email account, which means I'm subject to "Sidejack Attacks."
It's really not a safe world out there. Be careful!
Posted: January 15, 2008 5:20 pm | 0 comments
Tags: iPhone, security
