On Monday, April 23rd, Adobe made a double announcement regarding Creative Suite 6 (no surprise) and the Creative Cloud (also no surprise). There was no surprise because Adobe has been presenting us with sneak peaks of upcoming features for some time, and the Creative Cloud was informally announced back in October at the Adobe MAX in Los Angeles. Now that details are coming in, this cloud has a very silver lining.
OSX Odyssey

Apple Releases The Mac OS X 10.5.3 Update - OS X Odyssey 9203999

image Apple today released the much-anticipated Mac OS X 10.5.3 major bugfix update, which is available via Software Update or (my much preferred mode) as a standalone installer from Apple's Software Download site


Some Musings On Lost Data - OS X Odyssey 9192234

Last weekend, something happened that I haven't experienced in a long time - I lost data on my Mac


Creating Panoramas With Photoshop Elements 65680

image Photoshop Elements 6 allows you to combine separate shots into horizontal or vertical panoramas using Elements 6's enhanced Photomerge Panorama feature based on Adobe's proprietary Photomerge to stitch together multiple photos panned across a scene into a single seamless panorama - automatically


A Simple (Absurdly) “Fix” For Leopard Spaces Bug - OS X Odyssey 9189045

image Spaces, which allows you to group various open application windows into multiple work environments, ergo: "spaces," and then switch among them quickly and easily, is probably my favorite innovation in Leopard, but it has this maddening bug....



Non-Erase HD Reformatting With OS X Leopard Disk Utility - OS X Odyssey 9176296

image One of the more significant unheralded new features in OS X 10.5 Leopard is the ability to create new hard drive partitions or to expand or shrink existing ones without erasing the entire drive


Opening And Saving Word Documents In OS X Leopard Text Edit - OS X Odyssey 9164935

image If need to open and save Microsoft Word formatted documents and you're using Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, you don't need any other Word-savvy software other than Leopard's bundled Text Edit program which these days warrants categorization as a full-fledged word processor


OS 10.5.2 Update Settles Leopard Down - OS X Odyssey 9154527

image If you've noticed that I haven't been complaining as much about Leopard lately, that's because I've been finding less to complain about. The OS 10.5.2 update and companion Leopard Graphics Updater seem to have settled the operating system down substantially. That, and the release of WindowShade X 4.2b1 bringing windowshading to Leopard, has made me a much happier camper


WeatherBug Weather Monitor For Firefox, Your iPod touch, iPhone, The Dashboard - OS X Odyssey 9148261

image Free Mac OS X options for a constantly-updated snapshot of temperature and weather conditions at the configured geographical location from a network of over 8,000 WeatherBug Tracking Stations and more than 1,000 cameras



Unsanity Releases Raft Of Leopard-Supporting Haxie Betas - OS X Odyssey 913 [UPDATED]3956

image This is a huge development for those of us who have been waiting impatiently for restoration of WindowShade X support in Leopard. As a total windowshading junkie, I've found it a very long three months, although Leopard's Spaces feature has helped mitigate the pain somewhat


OS 10.5.2 and Leopard Graphics Update Progress(?) Report - OS X Odyssey 9124852

image I got almost exactly one week of uptime after installing the OS 10.5.2 Update and Leopard Graphics Update Thursday before last, the longest I've ever gone without Spaces malfunctioning, and I was pretty much convinced that I could give Spaces a clean bill of health on that issue, but....


Mac OS X 10.5.2: Time Machine problems? - OS X Odyssey 9117415

Not for everyone; how about you?


Working Around A Eudora OS X 10.5 Leopard Incompatibility - OS X Odyssey 9116067

image Qualcomm has posted a compatibility note for the no-longer-being-developed Eudora email client and OS X 10.5.2 Leopard



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