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Archive for the 'Annoyances' Category

Ideas on How Not to Screw Your Customers

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
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I thought you might be entertained by the following exchange I had with a company called CodeWeavers. They produce a product called Crossover which lets you run some Windows apps on a Mac. I wouldn’t go as far as to say that Crossover for Mac sucks, but I wouldn’t put it in the same category [...]


How To Remove Orphaned Files in Your iTunes Music Library Folder

Friday, June 6th, 2008
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Even with our huge 100+ gigabyte hard drives, space eventually becomes an issue. Anything you can do to save space is helpful. As your music collection grows it becomes more and more important to control your music library. For the most part iTunes does a great job. If you have iTunes set to automatically manage [...]


More Adobe Complaints

Thursday, September 6th, 2007
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I thought my problems with Adobe were over, but it never ends. To recap…
Part 1
My computer at work crashed and it took days of phone calls to Adobe support before they could remove Adobe Creative Suite 3 from my computer. I needed to remove it completely (more completely than there uninstallers will allow) and then [...]


Adobe Complaints and Coda Praise

Tuesday, July 17th, 2007
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My computer at work crashed last week. Thankfully, other than half a day of work, I didn’t lose anything. I was able to do an “archive and install” to get my operating system back up and running and you can only imagine how glad I was to see my cluttered desktop appear on screen.
The worst [...]


The Check Engine Light is Mocking Me

Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
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When the check engine light came on well over a year ago, I promptly took my Tercel to the dealership. The diagnosis was carbon buildup. After several attempts to remedy the problem I was forced to make a decision. Either I spend $800 to have the part machined out or drive with the engine warning [...]




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