Archive for the 'Rants & Raves' Category

Word ate all my nice CPU…

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008, by moose

OK, so I posted yesterday about a bug in Excel 2008, and now I just hit another one in Word (yes, I’m not counting the one that does the same sort of random document windows rearranging when you use multiple screens, it plagues Word as well as Excel, which, in a way, is sort of [...]

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Oh! Excel wherefore are thou Excel?

Tuesday, May 13th, 2008, by moose

So I’ve been using Office 2008 for a while, and been cursing and screaming at it for taking more time to launch on my MacBook Pro C2D 2.3GH than it took Office 2004 running in Rosetta. As well as for having exactly the same bugs happening in exactly the same situations, mostly in Word (like [...]

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So, Ballmer uses a MacBook Pro, uh?

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008, by moose

This picture is just GREAT:

I still hope for them he used PowerPoint and not Apple’s Keynote…

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Is Windows/Office getting slower with each new version?

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008, by moose

Over at InfoWorld, Randall C. Kennedy wrote an interesting review. He tested the performance of various flavors of Windows and Office on different PC configuration.
His conclusion:
Fat, fatter, fattest: Microsoft:
The conventional wisdom regarding PC evolution, that Microsoft devours every Intel advance, continues to hold true right up through the current generation of Windows Vista and Office [...]

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Apple’s support for legacy applications going down the drain

Thursday, April 17th, 2008, by moose

The terrible news came this morning through Apple’s Kbase RSS feed:
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard does not include support for iPhoto 2.

Oh my! I so liked the way you could go for a cup of coffee while iPhoto2 tried to scroll through the couple thousands 2 megapixel images I had in my Library.

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The Joy of Tech takes on iPhone 3G

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008, by moose

As always, the JoT is spot on about the various expectations for a 3G iPhone.
The Joy of Tech comic… laughter is the best tech support.

All I can say is I have been using an iPhone for a few month, and I don’t really miss 3G. I had a 3G SOny Ericsson phone before, and I [...]

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Ever wondered where the Dashboard layer goes when it moves up?

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008, by moose

Hmm, you know Dashboard, when you click that “+” icon at the botom left, it moves the whole black layer up, “pushed” by the aluminum strip which allows you to choose what widgets you want to add?
Well, have you ever wondered where the upper part of the Dashboard layer goes? Yeah right me too…
And here [...]

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Test your font knowledge NOW!

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008, by moose

Here’s an interesting “quizz”:
The Rather Difficult Font Game

Basically, you have to try and guess the name of the fonts used. There are some timeless classics, but I barely managed to score 24/34, some of the fonts names I had never heard before…
(Via daring fireball.)

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