SOFTWARE: POSTBOX2 on MACBOOKAIR doesn’t have scheduled send

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Fedinand Reinke, Mar-18 11:49 pm (PDT):

Sometimes I would like a message to be delayed until tomorrow, next week, or some time next year. I can’t find how to induce POSTBOX2 to do that for me. I know it’s in Outlook. How does a POSTBOX2 User do that?

It would be really nice if POSTBOX2 would handle that very smartly (i.e., wake up when a deferred request triggers and send it) but I could even live with it doing it the next time it is “alive”.

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Justin Rochell, Mar-21 07:47 pm (PDT):

Hi Fedinand,

Postbox has a “Send Later” feature, but without scheduling.

http://support.postbox-inc.com/entries/247672-using-the-send-later-command

If you don’t mind, please submit a request for scheduling in the Ideas & Feature Requests Forum so we can keep track of it.

Thanks for using postbox!

Best,
Justin Rochell
Postbox, Inc.

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(1) This seems to me to be an OBVIOUSLY needed feature. OUTLOOK does it; I’m no MICROSOFT fan, but they have certain features. It just WINDOZE that sucks.

(2) WINDOZE may suck; MACOSX has its problems too. The question is how much suckiness will you the User tolerate. If you do a real good job of separating your data, your applications, and the OS on a WINDOZE platform, AND IF you do a real good job of managing your WINDOZE OS — slipstreaming fixes into a WINDOZE DISKIMAGE (by like ACRONIS) so you can bare metal restore at the drop of a hat, I’d give the nod to WINDOZE over MACOSX. On to Linux anyone?

(3) The meme of “personal computing” is that you can have your little PLATFORM and it’s “personal”. The new meme of “cloud computing” is nice if you never leave home and you high speed connection to the inet never fails. Once you leave home or if your inet provider is flaky, then cloud computing is challenging at best. Wifi ain’t that ubiquitous or that “free”. If you use the phone as you’re inet gateway, you’re stuck with an expensive “data plan” and find out that “unlimited” doesn’t mean “unlimited”.

(4) Clearly, the applications developers have to design applications that can work either with or without the cloud. I haven’t seen one yet that does.

(5) The regulators are back in 1910 and are (deliberately?) clueless about how companies are ripping the folks off.

(6) I love how developers want the Users to do their work for them. Assuming that “scheduled send” is a valid useful “new idea”. Why ask me, the User, to do your data entry work? That’s down right rude. Do I get paid, or anything, to be your R&D staff? It’s not like this is Open Source Software, where there’s more of a collaboration between developer and User. Argh!

(7) Many enterprises treat the Customer like they are an unpaid staff. The cable and telephone companies come to mind. I may have no choice but to put up your “barbara streisand” now, but there will come a time. Payback is a bitch!

Argh!

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SOFTWARE: Chrome takes all free disk space

Saturday, March 19, 2011

OK, I think I have ‘evidence’.

With only POSTBOX2 and CHROME running I get message ‘no space’. So, I quit CHROME and now I have 1+ Gig back.

(I have to figure out how to shrink IPHOTO. But there doesn’t seem to be any way to do it other than just delete stuff. Argh!)

Argh!

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SOFTWARE: CARBONITE is NOTRECOMMENDED

Friday, March 4, 2011

I did the fix and the problem still exists.

Their response is to “call” us. Argh!

This is supposed to be “production quality” software on a bullet-proof OS.

It’s an illusion.

I’ve moved CARBONITE to my list — NOTRECOMMENDED!

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SOFTWARE: CARBONITE has a complicated fix?

Thursday, March 3, 2011

To whom it may concern:

This is a stunning set of instructions. And, you expect non-techies to perform these steps. I’d say you have a design problem to have to do this.

Fjohn

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Carbonite Mac Support wrote:

Response (Ricky C.) 03/02/2011 02:26 PM

Hello Ferdinand and thank you for contacting Carbonite Customer Support.

We reviewed our records under your email address ‘XXXXXX’ and it indicates that you have backed up 33GB of data approximately on Carbonite server from your Mac named ‘ferdinand-reinkes-macbook-air’ and 5 files are left pending for backup.

We request you to uninstall Carbonite from your Mac manually and then reinstall it in order to fix the issue of high CPU usage of your Mac.

Please follow the steps below to manually remove Carbonite’s program files:

1. Restart your Computer.

2. Control click on Finder on the dock and select ‘Go to Folder’.

3. Type /Library/Application Support/ into the window that appears.

4. Move the ‘Carbonite’ folder to the Trash.

5. Control-click on the Application Support folder in the header bar and click the Library folder.

6. Go to the Contextual Menu Items folder and move ‘CarboniteCMM.bundle’ to the trash.

7. Go back to the /Library folder and go into the LaunchAgents folder.

8. Delete ‘com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitealerts.plist’ and ‘com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitestatus.plist’.

9. Go back to the /Library folder, and to into LaunchDaemons.

10. Move ‘com.carbonite.launchd.carbonitedaemon.plist’ to the trash.

11. Go back to the /Library folder, and to into PreferencePanes.

12. Move ‘Carbonite.prefPane’ to the Trash.

13. Restart your computer again.

14. Empty your trash.

You can reinstall Carbonite by logging into your Carbonite account and clicking the ‘Reinstall’ button. Reinstalling Carbonite will not affect your previously backed up data. It will resume your backup from where it last left off. For more details, please click the link below.

Reinstalling Carbonite on a Mac: http://carbonite.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1406

Please let us know if you need additional assistance.

Sincerely,

Ricky C.

Carbonite Customer Support

http://www.carbonite.com

Back it up. Get it back.

Important Message: If you have recently restored your Carbonite backup to a Windows 7 or Windows Vista computer, please take a moment to verify your backup settings. Visit http://carbonite.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2654 for instructions.

For the latest news, tips, and discussions about Carbonite, visit our blog at http://www.carbonite.com/en/blog.

Customer 03/01/2011 02:56 PM

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to-domain=carbonite.com

subject=User incident report

from=XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

version=1.1.4 build 389

os=Mac OS X 10.6.6

category=Troubleshooting

comment=Carbonite is absorbing 75% of the CPU. Is this the reason my macbookair slows down to a crawl periodically.

serial=212XXXXXXXX

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SOFTWARE: LibreOffice 3.3 recommended “Office” suite

Saturday, February 19, 2011

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7959?hq_e=el&hq_m=1174302&hq_l=4&hq_v=e357d8d5d7

LibreOffice

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Sure, LibreOffice 3.3 is basically a recolored OO.o, at this point. But, adding its own fixes and features sets it in a new direction. LibreOffice should retain its compatibility with OO.o so that extensions, fixes, patches, and code enhancements can be used in either product.

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RECOMMENDED!

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SOFTWARE: OPERA1101 can’t send a link?

Sunday, February 6, 2011

In my quest to find a browser that fulfills my needs (whatever they are), I’ve been using OPERA (version 11.01).

I just noticed a blunder in the User Interface.

There’s no menu option under “file” to forward a link.

Curious oversight.

Otherwise, the browser is quite good.

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SOFTWARE: APPLE’s APPSTORE has no way to roll back

Sunday, February 6, 2011

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/01/28/ipad-101-reverting-to-an-older-version-of-an-application/

iPad 101: Reverting to an older version of an application
by Michael Rose (RSS feed) on Jan 28th 2011 at 2:15PM

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It happens to us all: an application update for the iPhone or iPad goes awry, and the new app doesn’t do things the way we want (or, unfortunately, work at all on one of our devices). We ourselves are in that boat at the moment, since the new version 2.0 of the TUAW iPhone app is not working as expected on the iPad — our development team is digging into the problem right now and we hope to be fast-tracking a fixed version right away. Our apologies for the issues.

This sort of thing is particularly sticky because there’s no Apple-supported way to roll back to a previous version of an iOS application once you’ve updated. There is a workaround, however, if you haven’t yet emptied your Trash in the Finder. Read on for the steps.

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Here’s the chief objection to cloud-based version control.

You don’t have the old software to fall back on.

And, that’s the objection to “application stores”.

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SOFTWARE: POSTBOX2 NOTRECOMMENDED

Thursday, February 3, 2011

POSTBOX2, a OSX mail application, is in my doghouse.

  • Smearing in message preview screen when paging down in a message.
  • Support told me that I’m unique and they can’t reproduce it.
  • Don’t have the accounts open.
  • Unable to “next” thru an mail folder from message to message.
  • It’s “involved” in several high CPU usage incidents.
  • It’s “involved” in several disk space exhaustion incidents.
  • It has “performance issues” especially when switching mailboxes.

I’ve fallen back to APPLE MAIL.

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SOFTWARE: POSTBOX2 “SMEARING” appears to be related to “account” display

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

RE: POSTBOX2 has a serious value-impacting problem — “SMEARING” in message preview pane

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“SMEARING” in message preview pane POSTBOX2 Version 2.1.0 (PAID) While the workaround — “click on the message” and read it in a new tab — works, it destroys the usability of it.

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The support folks have tumbled to a key fact. “SMEARING” only appears to occur when (1) the ACCOUNT has many accounts; and (2) the ACCOUNT folder is open to show individual accounts. Close it, no “SMEARING”.

This is now a acceptable temporary (I hope) workaround.

Support was good in terms of responsiveness and follow thru.

Assuming this will get a fix, I’m downgrading my “NOTRECOMMENDED” recommendation to “WARNING”. (Like anyone cares.)

The implication is that it is NOT well tested if within a week of buying and using the product, I can hit a CLASS #2 bug which should have been obvious to find.

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SOFTWARE: After a fellow blogger lost a post …

Thursday, January 20, 2011

… I suggested:

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May I suggest that you, or your tech support — whomever you’ve stuck with that job — look at “Lazarus plugin”. http://lazarus.interclue.com/ It allows you to recapture data that you’ve put in a form and lost.

I try to write all my stuff in a text editor and cut’n’paste it where needed. Lost too much. Too often. But, I try to discipline myself to do it that way. The losses are too painful.

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