i am sorry but there are no other words or only words that are even worse. it is absolutely unbelievab le. freq uent betalogue readers know that these days i use apples pages for most of my word processing needs. if i get word documents that i need to work on and resubmit as word documents i simply open them in pages work in pages and then export them back as word documents before sending them ...
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compared to the recurring nightmare known as microsoft word 2008 apples own pages 3.0 is a joy to use. its fast it does not corrupt documents and for the most part its reliable. that said i cannot help but notice that in recent months the application has not been as stable as it used to be at least on my machine. heres a screen shot of the list of crash logs compiled by mac os xs console appli...
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first get a list of the drives you want to stop or prevent spotlight from indexing. so go to terminal. your applications utilities folder type become root type sudo your hard drives will normally be listed under volumes type ls la volumes if you dont see the one you want to not index use the command below. diskutil lista it will get you a list of all the volumes available and read t...
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this post is the conclusion of my investigation of the responsiveness issues i have been experiencing while browsing the apple store web site in mac os x. it comes after this post and this post and combines the feedback i have received from various people and the further testing i have been doing. here are the facts. if i try to browse the apple store web site in safari over my highlatency sat...
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following my post last week about the poor performance of the apple store web site in safari on my machine with limited bandwidth i received an email from a reader who suggested that i turn off javascript in safari safari has poor javascript performance compared to other browsers and having a high latency connection like satellite probably makes things worse. today i did just that and the di...
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ive been shopping at the online apple store for a few years now and every time i vist the site its the same thing pages take forever to load and quite often something in the content of the page causes safari to temporarily become completely unresponsive with the spinning beach ball of death. i am quite sure that this is at least in part due to the fact that my internet connection is not very goo...
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patrick at cash money life wrote an incredibly detailed post for windowsusers about how to extend the lives of their computers. i bow down to patrick for all of his awesomeness and for having written that amazing post but what about mac users he and i discussed it and hes encouraged me to go ahead and write this response post for those of his and my readers that are apple computer users instead. i...
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while trying to debug a problem with help viewer its hanging with the spinning gear icon whenever i use the search field i stumbled across this page which includes a ton of information on debugging help viewer. buried in the details is this tidbit on enabling help viewers debug mode. quit help viewer then open terminal and type defaults write com.apple. helpviewer helpviewerdebugging bool yes...
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