Snow Leopard - glitches, updates and other essential info

[rongold]

Installation went without problems on my Core 2 Duo MacBook (although I had to check with Take Control of Upgrading to Snow Leopard to figure out the restarts which occurred during the upgrade process, rather than after completion as in previous OS X upgrades) as did upgrade to 10.6.1. with Combo updater.

Office 2008 working fine so far. Eudora 6.2.4 seems to have a few more glitches in Snow Leopard than in Leopard (in particular, messages with attachments seem to get lost somewhere before finally arriving), but still seems to work well enough to continue to be my primary email program.

[Xairbusdriver]

Just saw another list of updated apps for Snow Leopard, here's the ones I think may be most used here. Of course, checking individual app developers is probably still the fastest way to learn of an update. I almost always use an app's "Check for updates" feature.

<Tidy Up> mostly removes a lot of wasted white space in any code
<Cocktail 4.5.1>
<Little Snitch>
<CarbonCopyCloner> Also a ßeta with no "known" problems...
<ClamX ßeta>

Others that looked interesting but I've not used:

<Xslimmer> Mainly to reduce the "weight of the OS, not ones body
<Leopard Cache Cleaner> Another "weight" reducer, this one for browser fluff
<File Finder> Careful, this one is from France! Not sure how it might treat English names!! :

[Shades of Gray]

QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Sep 14 2009, 05:16 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Shades of Grey, that's great, but for the benefit of the rest of us, as well as future readers, how about elucidating a little about what or how the print problems were corrected. Was it from suggestions made here? Which one(s)? From some other site/person? What was done to actually fix the problem? Inquiring minds, ya know...

Yeah, I should have put that in, normally I am the one reminding someone to do that.

Anyway, for some reason I had to reinstall the printer drivers and restart. Not sure why it was needed, but it resolved the problem.

[Xairbusdriver]

Since we had a 'certified' Apple Software Engineer (sounds better than "Programmer" I guess...) at our MUG meeting this week, I asked him about an annoyance that had been bothering me in Snow Leopard's Finder. Specifically, with a Finder window open (Column or List view) but not as the frontmost window (other apps/windows visible), when one clicks on something in that Finder window, it is not selected/activated. Instead the only thing that happens is that the Finder window comes to the front. I would have sworn that the previous behavior was that any clicked item would have been selected. Matter of fact, I remember forming a habit of not clicking randomly on a Finder window if I didn't want to lose what I might have previously selected something there.

"Oh, that's the desired, appropriate response." OK, then why does clicking on an icon in the inactive Finder window Toolbar activate that item/app/file?

"Oh, I didn't realize that! Uhmn, that's not correct...shouldn't be that way..." And he then proceeded to show me, again, how things should work, according to Apple. That is, until he changed the view to Icon! In that case, clicking an icon in an inactive Finder window actually highlighted that icon! "Oops, that's not right, either."

Here's a link to an article by someone else who is annoyed by this sometimes available, sometimes not behavior: <Pierre Igot at ßetalogue>