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Fear, loathing and Dragon Express

February 14, 2012 by Marianne Schultz Leave a Comment

Click on that screenshot. Go ahead. It won’t bite. In case you’re not brave enough, it’s a Yahoo search of gibberish in Safari. Which opened by itself on my beloved iMac with no input from me.

 Now click on this next one. That’s a new email message filled with gibberish in the body. Mail opened all by itself and created this beauty all by itself without my input.

And these weren’t one-time events. I saw several new email messages create themselves and random Google and Yahoo searches execute – all without any input from me whatsoever – for several days in a row in late January. What the hell was causing this? I was not taking any prescription meds or recreational drugs that would cause such hallucinations. And Macs don’t get viruses, right? Or had I somehow found a brand new one all by my little self? [Read more…]

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Lion can kiss my…

September 14, 2011 by Marianne Schultz 3 Comments

If you listened to the everythingiCafe podcast episode #32, you probably already know that there are many things about Apple’s latest version of the Mac OS, Lion, that irritate the hell out of me. I’ve calmed down a little bit since then and have made some settings adjustments to tame Lion into something more manageable.

But despite these tweaks, I still don’t feel like Lion is necessarily a step forward for Apple and it certainly has not made any substantial improvements to my day-to-day productivity. Why, you ask? Well, the reasons are manifold, my dear.

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