Unfortunately, the Text expansion capability built into Mavericks itself doesn't work in TextWrangler either. Meanwhile it is possible that Grammarian (which advertises 10.9 compatibility) will work.Īnd it's also possible we'll find a way around the problem in TextWrangler by using Services (which you can build in Automator) or just simple AppleScripts. There are often pleasant surprises in first updates. We did contact Bare Bones Software about this and they replied promptly but there's nothing they (or anyone for that matter) can do about Spell Catcher. It works fine in TextEdit, InDesign and Pages, though. Unfortunately shortcut expansion just doesn't work in TextWrangler, TextMate or Brackets. Evan Goss was a genius, that's the explanation. Spell Catcher mostly works, oddly enough. Our biggest issue so far has been using TextWrangler with Spell Catcher, a writing tool we rely on to check our spelling, convert shortcuts into text and format text. This section was entirely dictated with only one error. We're using Enhanced Dictation so we can work off-line.īut we can type faster then we can dictate. Your computer seems to learn what to do after a while. A warning popped up when we connected the scanner to our USB port. Out of the blue, as we were writing this, we had an alert than an extension we never use was suspect, so something is going on behind the scene.Īn Alert. Or some other mysterious process, some iCloud sync maybe. Which is, we suppose, to be expected.Ĭould be Spotlight. We don't get control of the cursor back right away as it scrambled to display our 50,000 thumbnails. We didn't spend a long time in Lightroom but it seems as if every new launch on Mavericks takes a while. We've read some reports of problems exporting from Lightroom 5 so we launched it and gave it a shot. That shouldn't happen in the grand scheme of things. We're amused the original Razr battery outlasted iSync. We connect (every six months of so) our not-so-smart cell, a Motorola Razr, to Lion via the old iSync (which when restored from the previous OS release worked just fine). There's some discussion about the loss of USB sync from iTunes for Contacts and Calendars (you have to go through iCloud for that now) but we have a worse tale. We should also mention Postbox, which functions as a newsreader in addition to handling email, as a possible solution but our workflow keeps Usenet and email separate. Or keep that old aluminum PowerBook G4 plugged in so you can still run MT-Newswatcher. Run Crossover and a Windows newsreader (alas, which one we can't say). Unfortunately because MT-Newswatcher (really the best Usenet news reader we ever used) relies on Open Transport, it's no longer functional on Mavericks, which has dumped Open Transport.Īnd there just isn't an adequate replacement. But it is useful for seeing what people are talking about. Usenet was never one of the better Internet neighborhoods, spawning some of the rudest online behavior imaginable. Too bad he can't be confined to a chair until he does the same small miracle for MT-Newswatcher. But Mavericks won't launch it.Ĭorey Mahler has created Airport Utility 5.6.1 Launcher that includes both the old application and a launcher so you can once again access your Airport Express. Previous version of Mac OS X allowed you to run an older version of Airport Utility (v5.6) to access the Airport Express. And it's also true that the portable little Wireless B boxes are immensely useful and, consequently, still in use. It's true that the current Airport Utility has never supported the original Airport Express models. It's not that Mavericks is causing us grief, but it's taking a while to sort out a few things that are important to our daily round, which involves a lot of software working happily together.īut here we are writing our first story on a Mavericks machine. And having moved from iOS 4 to iOS 7 in the course of our iPad adventure, we can testify that none of those upgrades hampered our productivity. If our laptop life were as confined as our tablet life, upgrading to Mavericks wouldn't have made the least little blip on our heart monitor. Why is it that "upgrades" always seem to entail a dramatic loss of productivity? Had we upgraded to Mavericks on our main machine, we'd have gotten a lot less work done today than we did.
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