An annoyance is different from a bug in that it is something that you know is probably never going to change, and you can live with it, or work around it, but it still annoys you every time you see it.  You are aware that the fix would probably take about a day, but it [...]

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Pages, Numbers, Mail, Preview.  I am waiting for the Safari update called “Browser”; I know it will happen.  The problem is that finding help online is next to impossible. Check out the following hypothetical search:

 
As you can see, not a single of the top 5 results had anything to do with the application called “Pages”. [...]

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You know the situation. You are sitting in a rehearsal and someone asks for a tempo. They sing a short phrase or clap their hands in time. Everyone tries to guess what tempo it is and then someone produces a metronome where they either dial frantically to get to the right one (which it almost [...]

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In ascending order of joy:
These ten applications let you do what Apple should be letting you do. And they are free. Help put a stop to software piracy!
10. TacoHTML

TacoHTML is an HTML editor but it is not WYSIWYG. But the real beauty of Taco is that you can open and edit basically any kind of [...]

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Note: Apple’s latest Leopard update allows you to access external disks from the Airport extreme without the Terminal hack (step 3). Otherwise, everything else in this post still applies!
I still can’t believe their latest maneuver. Before the release of 10.5 Leopard, Apple began advertising for this great feature called “Time Machine” that was [...]

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