Category Archives: Product Deficiencies

Features, capabilities, extensions, or performance lacking in products.

Garmin WebUpdater

Posted on November 2, 2008 by Walt Stoneburner

I own a Garmin GPSmap 60CSx in order to geoencode my photography using HoudahGeo. Garmin now has a means up updating the firmware in their GPSs by using a WebUpdater, of which I use the version for the Mac. I … Continue reading →

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Firefox Slow Page Load – Solved

Posted on March 28, 2008 by Walt Stoneburner

Firefox 3 slow? 20 second page load times? Figured out why. And how to fix it. Continue reading →

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iChat Problems: Fixed

Posted on December 15, 2007 by Walt Stoneburner

Got Leopard? Find that iChat isn’t working? Do you run Parallels? Guess what, that may be it. What? You’re not running Parallels at the same time you iChat? Not relevant, Parallels has network services active even if the client isn’t. Here’s the workaround to get you chatting… Continue reading →

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Five Things I Can’t Do with OS X Mail’s RSS

Posted on November 30, 2007 by Walt Stoneburner

With the new OS X release of Leopard, there were amazing improvements in Mail. One of which was the addition of RSS feeds. Here are five things I can’t do with RSS in Mail that I wish I could… Apple, are you listening? Continue reading →

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