Category Archives: Mac

Why, Microsoft? Why?

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Rick Lobrecht

Tonight, my Mac prompted me to update Office 2011.  I knew it was coming,  so I told it to go ahead and download the update.  Finally the package started running, and went through its normal thing.  After a minute or … Continue reading →

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Scrolling Direction?

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Rick Lobrecht

I’ve been trying to get used to “Natural” scrolling, as introduced with Lion.  It makes perfect sense to scroll “naturally” on a touch device.  And as Apple seems to want everyone to use touch devices (Magic Trackpad, Magic Mouse, trackpad) … Continue reading →

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Scanner Woes under Lion – Fixed!

Posted on August 20, 2011 by Rick Lobrecht

I upgraded my MacBook to Lion when it came out (ok, I waited a week.)  For the first time last night, I tried to use our scanner, a Canon CanoScan LIDE 500F.  I restarted.  I Repaired Permissions.  I tried with … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Office 2011 for Mac

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Rick Lobrecht

Microsoft released Office for Mac 2011 yesterday.  It includes Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and as a replacement for Entourage – Outlook.  Office now has an interface similar to the ribbon based fluent UI introduced with Office 2007 for Windows.  Supposedly, Outlook has … Continue reading →

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What about feature parity?

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Rick Lobrecht

I was attempting to review a work spreadsheet on my Mac, when this little gem of a message popped up. Oh well…  

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Bad Google

Posted on February 26, 2009 by Rick Lobrecht

As I’ve mentioned in the past, I run my Mac as a Standard User.  This has its challenges, but in general is better than on Windows XP.  A while back, I tried Google Quick Search Box, and even though I … Continue reading →

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iPhoto sells Macs

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Rick Lobrecht

Mary and Victor were reviewing some photos he took for us in iPhoto. Mary was very impressed with the quick ability to change a photo to sepia (or whatever) and declared that she needs a Mac. Of course we could … Continue reading →

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Updated Live Mesh crashing on my Mac

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Rick Lobrecht

I’m really loving Live Mesh.  Until yesterday, everything just workedTM.  Unfortunately that all came to a screeching halt when Mesh on my MacBook told me I had to update because it wouldn’t connect to the network anymore.  A quick download, … Continue reading →

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Live Mesh

Posted on November 3, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

I finally got Live Mesh working on my Mac, my phone, and my fileserver.  I’m waiting on a new laptop for work, so I haven’t installed there yet. I have to say  this is very cool.  At the very basic, … Continue reading →

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mesh.com

Posted on October 31, 2008 by Rick Lobrecht

With the new availability of the Mac client, I’m going to try Live Mesh again.  I was able to get logged in to my account, and download the Mac client.  I’m getting an error trying to log in, but I … Continue reading →

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