Saturday, October 9, 2010

Error Message Word '08 Mac

Just a couple days ago I was using office: mac '08 word and I got this random error message saying that my drive was full even though I had 32 GB left (according to the finder). Image is attached below, I am very excited about office '11 and I just can't wait to try it out! I really want to see how outlook compares to thunderbird on the mac. Trying to use entourage, at least for me, was a nightmare.



It was also quite an important assignment and I tried saving the file on an external USB drive (didn't work), but what did work was I saved as the file in .docx and not .doc (which is what I usually use) and for some reason the message went away. I then went ahead and quit word, I also went to the database utility to rebuild the database and so far so good.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Macbook Pro Battery (Early 2008)

Since school has started I've been using my macbook pro battery more. However, when I went to system profiler to see what the model was I was surprised to see that I no longer had a sony battery. I've had sony batteries (I've had two so far) until now, and the manufacture was actually SMB. I've done a short coconut battery (by the way recently coconut battery was updated to a rewritten version) log of the battery charge and here it is below. I just calibrated my battery and these are the current statistics (to reiterate apple's stance was to have 80% charge for 300 cycles. It appears to be decreasing steadily. I'm going to try to keep the cycle count below 100 and then once the capacity goes below 80% I'm going to get it replaced yet again.



Wednesday, September 22, 2010

Skim App

I was a fan of skim when I first used it, but for me I found out it was missing a feature that would complete my work flow, the addition of a freehand highlighter, which is already present in onenote. In fact, in one note there are two highlighting options.

On skim currently you can only highlight areas that have discernible text, and say that the pdf was a scan of a document you would be unable to highlight. But with the addition of a freehand highlighter it would be possible. It is all I ask, but I was just about to hopefully add that in the feature requests when I found out that it had already been suggested and shot down. I'm quite disappointed about that, I even tried circus ponies notebook to see whether they have advanced when it came to pdf annotation but they have not. Hopefully in the next reiteration of office for mac there can be a one note app, because I really don't want to run it via crossover.

And regarding the frequency of posts, the interval between posts is just going to increase as the school year has started. Sorry for the inconvenience.