If power blips are causing my computer to turn off, my UPS probably needs a new battery, right? The battery is pretty old.
Yes, that would be a strong possibility. Also, there are different grades of UPS's. If purchasing a new one, check one that has "brown out" protection (is usually how they label it on the boxes). The better ones tend to run off the battery with the power constantly charging it. That way, there is no switch over gap in time. Some will have a fraction of a second reaction to the loss of power, which is enough to power off your devices. The brown out protection, I believe, sense dips in power, and switches it sooner. The high end ones, just run off battery, like I mentioned above.
I'm really struggling with two things on the new OS X. The touchpad, which I might flip, since there's work, and it gets crazy. That motion on a screen is fine for me--the screen reminds me of the metaphor, but at this distance, it's not the same.
And then there's mail. Actually, I think taking Classic view off is more helpful, because the conversation grouping (despite me being fine with it in Gmail and and Outlook) was somehow not being predictable enough for me. I mean--I'm looking at the most recent message in the conversation in the pane, but when I hit reply, it's quoting three down. So I've turned much of that off. Hopefully that will make things more reasonable. I was told it's for iPad convergence but it's no coincidence homey here don't play iPad, yp.
The Launchpad and Mission Control are fine, although I was all ack! ack! APPLICATIONS??? for couple seconds there. But metaphors are my friend....very crafty, Apple...I'm on to you. And I'm not sure precisely how the spaces work, but since I can create new ones and put apps in 'em, I'm not sure I need anything more advanced right now, you know?
I'm halfway through looking at all the system preferences and seeing what their impact is--so that scroll bar one. Why would I only want scroll bars when I'm scrolling if there's more information than fits in the control? Am I missing some other indicator that there's more data? Because I got confused by that a couple times until I remembered having seen that setting and played confusedly with it.
For some reason, although I can pair Mary with my phone, and send files from Mary to Mace? I can't, via Bluetooth, send files from Mace to Mary. I ended up Dropboxing, because I didn't have Android File Transfer installed yet. Way frustrating.
I should also be presenting SMB shares on all machines that my Androids can access. It's the friendly thing to do.
This is weird. I don't think it's because it's on my lap--I did that from time to time with the old one. And no settings leap out at me. But it seems much more sensitive about what it deems a slant, and I'm ending ouf
Is there something I can tweak, or is it up to me relearning?
I wonder why neither major desktop OS is doing anything fancy with the clipboard. Office used to, but that seems to have stopped--at least automatically, or as something they signal. To be frank, I did find the corner of my screen yelling at me a bit distracting, but it could be useful from time to time.
is there really no payoff for either company to dress it up a little? Provide a history, or a viewer, or something perfectly obvious I'm not thinking about?
I think the problem was that that advanced clipboards seemed to cause major stability problems. Maybe someone has tackled that. Desktop publishing programs seem to manage them though - call them work areas or whatever.
What's intrinsic in a clipboard that brings instability along with? Memory issues?
I love CuteClips3. That's what I use for my clipboard manager. I could use Alfred - which does a lot of other things, but I got CuteClips before I got Alfred.
I'll have to look at both of those.
Right now I'm using Sublime as a text editor--not for code yet, just docs, and so far, fine. The opening closing quotes thing was a bit startling.
I'm a little confused by the documentation on the web about Lion. If I look up how to uninstall an app, either they're wrong, or my system is weird. Or they're writing about some halcyon time in the future and sending their documents back to July 2012.
When I do the hold-to-jiggle, only the one app I bought in the App Store has an x. Of the first three articles I clicked on about uninstalling only one mentioned this was an option, and it didn't tell you what to do in this case.
What is the terrain actually like out there? Is everyone magically using all App Store apps? Or not uninstalling? Or is it the fourth document that tells them "Oh, just delete it from Applications like before." I mean, it didn't take me long to try it, but why do the help pages not mention it? Why do most of the illustrations show all App Store apps? Is this representative and helpful?
I don't know. Part of it is just that you can fill up the clipboards fast when you have a lot of them (DTP save their "work areas" to disk and they are part of the document. In office I often find that even one item on the office clipboard rather than the windows clipboard can cause a crash. That is XP so maybe no longer a problem in 7. Seems like they would have fixed that before they left XP if it was easy.
And I note that both the 3rd party clipboard managers for the Mac. Windows memory management is maybe a bit harder? Or was at any rate?
