Panther gripes

After using Panther normally for a day, so far I’ve found a few things that annoy the hell out of me. None of them are Apple’s own fault, mind you. They are all third party software that has not been updated for Panther.

1. Mouse scroll wheel support. With my Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer driver installed. I can use all five buttons. But the scroll wheel does not scroll whole page. It can only scroll lines. The driver software suddenly does not offer the option to change either! Strange.

2. Safari Enhancer is not Panther compatible. This means I haven’t been able to remove the link underlining in Safari. My eyes are just not used to seeing underline on links after so many years of not seeing them.

Apart from these two, I think Panther is one of the best OS I’ve used so far.

Update: I’ve found out how to get page scrolling with the MS mouse driver. Apparently if I set the vertical scroll speed option to fastest it equals to page scrolling! How confusing!

Update 2: Safari Enhancer has been updated to be Panther compatible so no more underlined links!

The Big Cat is here

After just over 3 hours of doing a clean install of Panther on my TiBook, I am just getting back to where I started this evening. It is certainly faster and slicker. I have yet to explore all the new functionality so I can’t really comment on them yet. But I think it is money well spent so far…

Blog Poll Result

So the majority of you feel that I should stay with iBlog. The overwhelming result of 28 vs. 7 speaks it all.

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And since I am saving for the P900 for next year, I think I will stay put for the meanwhile.

Thank you for voting.

Woo Hoo!

It is finally official! SonyEricsson has formally released the P900. However, instead of releasing in the US in time for Christmas, it won’t reach the US until the first quarter of 2004. So no gadget to play with for another 6 months! What am I going to do during the holiday season?

Skin for Ti

MacSkinz Design has finally released their custom ‘skins’ for the 15″ Titanium PowerBook. Leah had already gotten one for her iBook so I know the quality of their product, which is good. So now my dilemma is which design I should get. Right now, I am biasing towards the urban camouflage design but I also like the red on blue flames design. Mmm… decision, decision…

Update: I’ve ordered the urban camouflage design and should receive it around the end of next week.

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