Nothing funny about feldspar

Ok, so I installed snocat on my MacBook, knowing full well that there were likely to be issues.

Heh.

As far as the various improvements/enhancements/refinements/whatever go, it’s ok. I like the new QuickTime, but I’m not enamored of the new Preview. Safari is Safari, and I suppose being able to change the size of icons in windows would be more interesting if I actually used icon view in Finder windows.

But as nice as all that stuff is, what I’m more concerned about is the applications I use every day. And so far, they are all broken (or at the very least damaged) in some way.

TextMate, my most used app after Safari, had to be updated to make the arrow keys work properly. There have been some changes with Ruby in snocat, and not all of the bundles work properly. I use the TODO bundle a lot, and it keeps failing with Ruby errors. I had to delete my old TODO and download a new copy. It works now, but I have several other Ruby-based commands that I have yet to test. I hope they work.

Cyberduck won’t even try to start. Luckily they’ve been working on this and have a beta version ready, which I have downloaded. It seems to work OK.

Quickbooks 2009. Oh. My. Gawd. For a company as large as Intuit is, you’d think they’d have an Apple developer account so they could start checking compatibility. But nooooooo. Crash crash crashy crash while doing fundamental tasks (like Receiving Payments!) and the developers think “For most users, the compatibility issues identified will not impact you.” It’s lucky that I held off updating my other QB computer. And of course, no idea when a fix will be coming, or even if it will address the issues I’m having.

Amazingly, surprisingly enough, I was able to start Adobe Photoshop CS2, and some Microsoft Office 2004 apps (Word and Excel). I didn’t put them through their paces, though. Word seemed especially sluggish, however. I’ve mostly switched over to Pages, but I still find labels much easier to set up in Word. I suppose I should just bite the bullet and make a Pages template for labels. I only use a couple of kinds.

I was disappointed that Chax wasn’t working, but there is a new version available (even if it is Alpha, it’s worth it). It just needs to make it possible for me to use it from the menu bar…

I probably have a gazillion apps, some of which I’ve never opened after the first time. It may take a while to get through them all.

So overall, a meh experience. Ah well, at least I didn’t have to pay $130 this time.