AppleWirelessKeyboard is a small utility program for Windows that talks to the Apple Wireless Keyboard and responds to the Fn and Eject keys. Then it simulates native mac functionality.
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Been a while since I had anything to report, but this one is a doozy. I was called out to recover a lost Excel file, in which the client had entered data for three days, and then found the next morning that anything entered between 12/29 and 1/3 had vanished.
I was never a fan of Apple’s mail program but was never sure how weak it was until I was forced to quit using Eudora when switching to Lion. I made the first of the year the day to start. After all, Eudora has been abandoned since 2002 and was getting very creaky under Snow Leopard. It was always an extremely powerful program, with all kinds of hidden settings and tricks it would do. Now that they are gone I really miss them.
1) You cannot edit the Subject line of incoming mail. Highlight text and hit Delete just moves the entire message to the Trash.
2) Keyboard shortcut to the next message. (In Eudora, it’s command-right arrow and command left arrow to move backwards. Command up-arrow and down-arrow do the same thing.) I can’t believe they left this out!
3) Edit the text of an incoming message. Suppose I want to archive a message but it’s filled with a dozen paragraphs of quoted old messages. Simple button to enable in Eudora but nothing in Mail.
4) No Transfer menu. I have to close a message and drag it to an archive mailbox. There is a similar function if I right-click the message, though. I’ll give it that.
5) Even with the help of AppleCare techs, I could not make it work with a POP connection to Gmail. No problem for Eudora, Mail would work with IMAP only. While it has its uses, I have never been a fan of IMAP, which will not show your messages if you disconnect from the Net. Under POP, mail is downloaded and stored on your Mac. My regular moonmac.com account works fine as POP.
Jumsoft has updated its selection of free themes for Keynote.
The latest batch includes ten lively designs that are part of its Goodies bundle.
10.7.1 is out
If you are one of the few who upgraded to Lion 10.7, Apple just issued the first, much-needed, update. It consists of the usual round of bug fixes and no visible changes. I installed it immediately, did the usual repair-permissions thing, and am using it now.
Microsoft has released a document that covers the general troubleshooting steps that you can use to resolve a problem that occurs when you use an Office for Mac program on a computer that is running Mac OS X 10.4.x (Tiger), Mac OS X10.5.x (Leopard), or Mac OS X10.6.x (Snow Leopard).
Here is a partial list of the things this Microsoft article deals with.
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