Tuesday, November 6, 2007

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  • Microsoft Office 2004 11.3.9 out for download

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    Got issues with Word quitting unexpectedly when you print a document? Don't be ashamed, it's perfectly normal, happens to everyone once in a while. If your printing potency isn't what it could be, try the new and improved Office 2004 11.3.9 update, now available for download.

    The 2.5 MB update, offered in eight languages, requires Office 11.3.8 before installing. Happy updating!

    Thanks Laurie!
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  • Voice Recordings and iTunes 7.5

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    Thank you to everyone who wrote me to give the heads up about the possible 1.1.2 support for iPhone voice notes. New strings inside the iTunes release suggest that voice note support may soon arrive--or not. It's hard to say given Apple's track record with extraneous repetitive string generation. Recall, for example, that iTunes' Apple TV strings have many references to games.

    At this time, there is no existing 7.5 iPhone voice recording support. Although I can manually add voice recordings to my 30GB iPod video, I cannot do the same with my iPhone. (I tried adding recordings to ~/Library/Recordings, ~/Media/Recordings, and a host of other "obvious places".) WAV files added to the iPod video's ~/Media/Recordings folder automatically get read, loaded and re-parented into the iTunes library on your home computer. No such luck with the iPhone (and with non-WAV formats on the iPod).

    In the mean time, please be aware that you cannot edit note names inside VNotes under 1.1.1. Working on that.

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  • Longstanding "move files" issue has alarmed Leopard users

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    The Mac-loving web is abuzz with reports of a problem moving files in the Leopard Finder. If you're saying to yourself, "Moving files? You mean copying files, don't you?" -- nope, actually moving files, done by holding down the Command key while dragging a folder or files from one volume to another. This trick, a lightly-documented holdover from OS 9, can come in handy if you really truly don't want to leave a copy of the files in the original location; perhaps you're intending to delete them anyway, and this is one step instead of two. The inverse trick, forcing a copy instead of a move for intra-volume file drags, is done by holding down the Option key while dragging -- note the presence or absence of the green + icon telling you whether the files will be duplicated in the target or not.

    Anyway, the aforementioned bug in the Finder is this: if for whatever reason your target disk gets disconnected during a file move -- a USB or Firewire cable is yanked, power failure, or a network interruption for a remote server volume -- you're likely to have problems with your moved files. In particular, whichever file was in progress when the connection dropped may disappear from both the source and target folders, never to be seen again. This is understandably upsetting and certainly cause for alarm and fuss, except for one minor point: this isn't a new problem in 10.5. The issue with file corruption or loss during a move goes back at least to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther and quite possibly further. A recommended workaround is simply not to move files; copy them, and then go back and delete the originals if desired.

    What does seem to be compounding the issue for some Leopard users is instability in the SMB networking stack. If remote NAS or fileshare volumes are prone to dropping off mid-transfer, then the issue may be presenting more often than it had in previous systems. Some readers have noted that this is particularly troublesome if you're trying to clear off a drive for backup use -- au revoir, old files, au revoir.

    While we strongly suggest not using the "move files" trick for anything critical, and we'd dearly love to see this issue fixed in the Finder, we also would like to gently remind our readers that everything that goes wrong is not necessarily, automatically, decidedly Leopard-related.

    Thanks to everyone who sent this in.
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  • iTunes: Free Tuesday

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    Once again, TUAW is pleased to present you with a selection of free songs and videos from around the world. Many of these iTMS items won't be free for long, so grab your copies before the week is up. And don't forget: If you want to buy these on your iPhone or iPod touch, make sure to sign into your account in iTunes before you sync. UK Readers please note that there are still no free UK videos to date, despite the new TV Programme store. On the bright side, you may not have videos but you do have Same Difference and that strange Welsh Rhydian Roberts fellow. (Feel free to explain him to me in the comments.)

    Continue reading iTunes: Free Tuesday

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  • MacOSXHints celebrates seventh birthday

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    It's hard to believe that the essential and educational font of Mac knowledge, macosxhints.com, is celebrating seven years of tips and tricks this week. Day in and day out, Rob Griffiths and his colleagues (the site is now owned by Macworld, but it began life as an independent resource) provide an essential service to the Mac community with user-contributed tweaks, tips and workarounds that help make OS X a better experience for all of us.

    Congratulations Rob, and best wishes from your fans at TUAW for seven more years!
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  • iMac Software Update 1.2.1 (Tiger) is available

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    Here's a rather specific update for iMac users running Tiger (specifically, 20-inch and 24-inch aluminum iMacs with 2.0, 2.4, or 2.8 GHz processors). According to Apple, Update 1.2.1 "...improves the performance and reliability of graphics-intensive games and applications and fixes an issue that some customers encountered when installing Mac OS X Leopard after applying iMac Software Update 1.2."

    Check software update if you meet the criteria. Let us know if you have any problems.
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  • Quicksilver goes Open Source

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    Long time readers know that we at TUAW love Quicksilver, the brilliant keyboard launcher application from Blacktree. Now after previously making promises to that effect, the developer (who likes to go by Alcor) has released the source for Quicksilver as a Google Code project. While Quicksilver has always had a highly extensible plugin system, this is great news for the code monkeys out there who can now really dig into the application. Mere moral users like myself can hope, however, that more eyes and brains working on the application will lead to more stability and faster development. A big TUAW 'attaboy to Alcor for taking this step!

    Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
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  • Saft 10.0.1 is fully Leopard compatible

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    Back when we were worried about Input Managers in Leopard, the biggest cause of concern for me was the potential loss of Saft, the absolutely essential plugin for Safari from Hao Li. Well now that the situation has settled down (at least for the time being), Hao has released a new version of Saft 10.0.1 that conforms to the new Input Manager restrictions in Leopard. It has basically the same features as before, but is now compatible with Safari 3.0.4 in Leopard. He originally released Saft 10.0 as a Safari launcher (which actually didn't work for me), but the new 10.0.1 version allows it to run as an Input Manager and works like a charm.

    Saft 10.0.1 is $12 to buy or $6 to upgrade from the Tiger version. A demo is also available. As far as I'm concerned, it's worth every penny (and then some).

    Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
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