This is part two of a series. Read Part One here.

What I Hate About Windows

1) The Taskbar – Windows users will crow on and on about the taskbar’s superiority, but it is crap. It has no one purpose, rather it is a poorly implemented strip that serves as the main control point for the computer. The place where this becomes the biggest issue is if you hide it. You may just want more screen space, or to just hide the start menu, but you have no choice. Everything goes. Your list of programs, your minimized windows, system notifications, everything, is gone. Which brings me to my next gripe. Why would all my windows be displayed in huge buttons? I can understand it if my minimized windows were, but the maximized windows are already there. No need to have them in the taskbar. The argument is that its easy switching between windows, but I don’t find it easy to try to decipher between three Internet explorer windows, or three any windows. In the taskbar they all look the same and that doesn’t speed up the workflow at all.

Though most seem to be happy with Mac OS X 10.5.2, a select few, Steve Jobs apparently included, aren’t. Mac OS X 10.5.3 is on the fast track to release, as yet another developer build was seeded over the weekend. While 10.5.2 had widely publicized bugs it was fixing, 10.5.3 has but one: WiFi issues, more »

What I hate about Mac

1) USB Devices Always Wake the Computer – If my computer is sleeping, and I unplug my iPod to go out, why does my computer wake up? Why, why, why? Same if I’m unplugging my display/USB hub to use my computer as a laptop. The computer should NOT wake up.

2) USB Drives Can’t Simply Be Unplugged – In a similar vein to the first one, I should be able to yank out my USB drive and go. Why do I have to eject the drive first? I don’t on Windows…

After releasing an update to Lightroom last week, they are now pulling it from their website and asking users to downgrade. There are three major bugs. The first is an error with EXIF time stamps. “There is an error in the EXIF time stamp update technology that causes Lightroom to believe that the files are more »

Leopard is good. Very good. Super very good when compared to Vista. But it’s not without it’s flaws. It seems that Leopard is the main cause for Macbook and Macbook Pro keyboard problems. Appleinsider is reporting that many users are having problems with their Intel portable’s keyboard shutting down. This seems to happen at random more »

Everyone’s favorite FTP application, Transmit, received a nice update from the folks over at Panic.Version 3.6 is the largest update to the software in over 18 months, with the last release being 3.5. The feature that stands out the most in this latest update is by far it’s new support for Amazon’s S3 service. That’s more »

There’s a new thread over at Apple’s Discussion Forums pertaining to bugs still present in the latest version of Keynote. Apparently, it will cause a Mac to suddenly reboot should a user press the “play” button or use the keyboard shortcut to start the presentation. Despite being a fairly mature product that’s been in use more »

Apple’s software is clearly not as safe as we think. When Safari was first introduced for Windows, bugs and exploits were discovered within the first few hours. It comes as no surprise that Symantec is now warning of an un-patched bag in Mac OS X’s implementation of Samba. Samba is the open-source application that permits more »

What’s the first thing you did with your iPhone when you first got it? Showed it to your friends? Called your mother? Spent more than 40 hours looking for bugs? I am sure that not many of you did the last one, but that is exactly what Robert Kemp over at AppleHound did. The first more »