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AirPort/WiFi Fixed | March 24, 2008

Those little updates Apple throws at us between the larger “point” and security updates are sort of a mystery. They tend to provide rather sparse information about exactly what they are fixing, and more often then not I don’t notice anything different. The latest Time Machine and AirPort Updates v1.0 however, actually seems to fix the issues I was having in this previous post.

Another interesting note about this… I filed an bug report with Apple for this and actually got a response from an Apple engineer. This, in my experience, isn’t normal. Often it seems as if sending info to Apple is a bit like sending it to /dev/null. It’s nice to actually get some some sort of acknowledgment from Apple. Between this, and actually fixing, at least to some degree, the horrors that Apple thrust upon us with Stacks as they first appeared in Leopard shows that someone there might actually be listening… sometimes anyway.

This on top of the fact that Safari 3.1 is a really, really nice update, makes Apple look all shiny. (Though the manner in which Apple thrust Safari 3.1 on unsuspecting Windows users, who have developed the habit of clicking through an obnoxiously large number of system popups without reading them, may present a small smudge).

Glitches in Spaces | March 18, 2008

I received an email from someone who purchased (or in some other way acquired) my book who seemed distressed that spaces was not working correctly. Specifically, she had Mail set in the Spaces preferences (in the System Preferences) to open in Space #2, and it didn’t! After some back and forth emailing, we found that removing Mail from the “Application Assignments” section of the Preference and re-adding it seemed to fix the problem. Not sure what bugged this up in the first place (though I could offer guesses), however if you find yourself in a similar situation you may try this to see if it fixes your problem.