12
Dec
After my Mac is back from repair I had the first chance to try Time Machine’s restore feature. 3 hours later for 70 GB of restored data my system is up and running again.
The whole process (putting in the OSX DVD, booting into the installer, selecting Time Machine restore from the menu and selecting the point in time the backup should be used from) is so simple, even your grandma will be able to do it.
After booting you are back at your desktop. There are very little oddities:
Mail.app thinks to see a mail database from Tiger, although it’s not. Looks like Time Machine does not store some index and it has to recreate it. No problem, 2 minutes later it’s fine.
Spotlight reindexes my whole harddrive.
Last but not least: I cannot see my old backups anymore in Time Machine. This in fact can be a proof that Gravis really replaced my mainboard during repair. A look at the external disk shows that he started a new “time line” for “goedel 2″, thinking that it’s a different computer now.
Altogether the whole restore was what you expect from Time Machine: a no brainer.
01
Dec
Mein Mac ist seit einer Woche “in Berlin bei Apple eingeschickt”. Und man liest Schlimmes: Bericht im Macintosh-Forum über eine Gravis-Reparatur “in Berlin” 
Update: 19 Tage und er ist wieder da. Fast alles ist neu: DVD, TFT, obere Gehäusehälfte, Motherboard. 
08
Aug
Die Demoversion von iWork ‘08 ist installiert. Keynote ist noch besser als es bisher schon war. Auch Numbers macht einen guten Eindruck. Nur eines ist unschön: Wie lade ich OpenOffice-Dokumente? Ich weiß, ich kann sie in Neo/OpenOffice im Word-Format speichern und dann in Pages öffnen. Aber das ist umständlich. Mehr noch macht es es insbesondere schwierig, iWork unbedarfteren Anwendern einfach als Ersatz für das schwerfällige NeoOffice zu installieren.
Ein alter Kritikpunkt ist leider auch nicht ausgeräumt: Der Export aus Keynote als Quicktime oder Flash erzeugt keine vernünftige Navigation, d.h. man kann nur schwer zwischen Folien hin- und herspringen. Immerhin gibt es Keynote nun als Demoversion zum Download, die angeblich nach 30 Tage Testen noch das reine Anzeigen von Dokumenten zulässt. Zumindest für Mac-Benutzer wäre damit das Exportproblem gelöst. Aber plattformunabhängig ist was anderes.
01
Aug
130 $ for a non-A2DP headset
20
Jul
What do the Apple developers thought when adding the export functions to Keynote?
The only more or less sensible format is the HTML export. You loose all the animations and effects, but at least you can go backwards in the slides. In contrast though the Quicktime export either gives you a non-interactive video or there is no way to go back slides in the interactive mode. In PDF export a lot of transparencies are rendered in a wrong way, so reading certain slides with e.g. transparent PNGs is impossible. The Flash export creates nice animations. But how the hell do I go a slide back? Only left click has an effect, to go forward.
So, why do they cripple the export module so much? It’s such a fantastic application, but the export module must be bad joke, or a political decision at the expense of the user who want to publish slides on the web.
16
Jul
… is doing its job and updates the Parallels webpage. Wished the developers had updated the product itself as well after weeks of customer complains. During this sad play there is something funny at least on their site, maybe it has been mentioned many times before:
In this point the marketing is right: Parallels has killed my Mac and my nerves so many times with their last release. Did I mention that I bought my Fusion licence a week ago and didn’t have any (yes, none, zero, niente) crash of Fusion yet?
