As a huge proponent of Adobe AIR since it was called Apollo, I'm very glad to see release 1.0 out.
February 25th, 2008 / Tags: adobe, air, linux / TrackbackFrom an anonymous reader on Slashdot:
"The Church of Scientology can delete auctions from eBay with no supervision under the VeRO program, and has used this to delete all resale of the e-meters Scientologists use. This is to stop members from buying used units from ex-members instead of buying from the official (and very expensive) source. Given Scientology's record of fraud and abuse, should eBay give them this level of trust? Will this set a precedent for other companies that want to stop the aftermarket resale of their products?"
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I think that's WAY over the line. Scientologists, no matter how crazy they may be, can practice whatever weirdo rituals they want - that's their right in America. But all this censorship stuff and now this attempt to squash the idea of a free market? :|
February 19th, 2008 / Tags: ebay, anonymous, scientology / TrackbackSince I did buy iWork '08 along with my new Mac, I decided to install it almost immediately.
In all the "excitement" last night, I didn't even bother really exploring Pages, Keynote and Numbers. Sometime very early this morning (I would say around 1:00 AM EST), I opened up Keynote and made a nice presentation through which I explored the sheer power of Keynote.
But it wouldn't save. I would get an error saying I couldn't save the file each time I hit the save button and used the dialog, regardless of what I named it. So, after a quick search of the Apple Discussion Forums, I started my own thread, and within just a couple of hours got a response from a very, very frequent helper (this person has almost 7,400 posts). Within just an hour or two, I had the problem solved. Or so I thought.
Well, the issue persisted. So I got on the phone with Apple Support and after about 30 minutes of decent on-hold music, an American (!) man who spoke English natively (!!) came on my line and walked me through what I had already done per the Discussions thread, but oddly this time it seemed to do the trick.
Once I got off the phone (actually, I used Skype) with him I realized some permissions were a bit messed up for some of the folders I was trying to save to. All of the folders with the weird permission settings have been re-assigned permissions as appropriate.
I am completely surprised at the level of Apple's paid support and volunteer support. It's very clear that there's a community of users who want everyone to have just as good of an experience with their Apple products as Apple themselves do. And by not outsourcing their support to India or Indonesia, Apple is doing their part in trying to provide a good experience to their customers.
Or maybe it's because Apple makes enough money on their products to not have to worry about cutting costs ;)
February 17th, 2008 / Tags: mac os x, apple / Trackback