Found these today while researching something for work, then saw the same thing on MacOSXHints. Regardless, these are good links for anyone considering moving to Office 2008.

This is a fairly comprehensive (and surprisingly large) list of known issues in the ‘final’ product Microsoft shipped last week.

Known issues in:
Entourage 2008
PowerPoint 2008
Excel 2008…

Which myth would that be, you ask?

You know, the one that says Apple products are proprietary and expensive and overvalued. The one that says that Apple customers only buy their products as status symbols - that they are zealots who will drink whatever Kool-Aid is poured from the pitcher that is Cupertino. ‘Apple owners have more money than brains’ …

[edit] D’oh! I meant Extreme, not Express. Old habits die hard…

For the past few days I’ve been tinkering with making Time Machine backup to a hard drive connected to an Airport Extreme, based on questions posed by some features found in Leopard 10.5.2.

The Airport Extreme attached drive consistently mounts and is easily written to and read from, but after choosing it as the backup location in Time Machine, it simply won’t work no matter how loud I curse at it.

Below are a few lines from the Console detailing the actions of the system when the backup begins and as it fails.

Jan 23 20:47:27 sm /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[547]: Backup requested by user
Jan 23 20:47:27 sm /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[547]: Starting standard backup
Jan 23 20:47:28 sm /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[547]: Creating disk image /Volumes/wd/sm_001b63b0891d.sparsebundle
Jan 23 20:48:11 sm kernel[0]: hfs: Initializing the journal (joffset 0×747000 sz 0×1800000)…
Jan 23 20:48:47 sm /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[547]: Backup requested due to disk attach
Jan 23 20:48:50 sm /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[547]: Error 22 creating backup disk image
Jan 23 20:48:50 sm /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[547]: Failed to create disk image
Jan 23 20:48:50 sm /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd[547]: Backup failed with error: 20

For testing purposes, I had done the following:
tested using both fat32 and journaled partitions on a 250gb drive
partitioned and formatted the drive as journaled, guid, single partition
tested the backup locally using Time Machine - this worked
reset the Airport, rebooted the computer
attempted to use Time Machine on the mounted Airport partition

A few notes:
when using the drive locally, Time Machine creates a ‘Backups.backupdb’ folder and starts writing the files
when using the drive via Airport, it attempts to create (as seen above), a sparse disk image, as if it were a normal network drive
testing was performed on a Western Digital 250gb Passport and an Iomega 1tb disk
testing Time Machine to a Windows based share also failed with the same error as the Airport

So, sadly, this leaves us in the same boat we were a few days ago. Hopefully it’s just a switch that needs to be flipped when the update is released, or perhaps we’ll see the ability to use Time Machine with network/Airport disks available as a paid upgrade (a la Touch apps).

Nice idea from WebClipMe.com, which offers up a gallery of icons for Touch and iPhone users who want to add home screen links to their favorite sites.

WebClipMe.com

As reported in an earlier article, the next update to Leopard will add a Sharing pane item called ‘DVD or CD Sharing’, which will facilitate booting to a remote optical disc from a Macbook Air (and possibly from other Macs).

The way the process works on the client side is by an agent that runs on the ‘main’ system …

Ok, so my Valentines day present shopping just got easier.
8gb, $199, shocking pink. Very cute.

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Tooble is an awesome new app that will download videos from YouTube, convert them to mp4 and add it to your iTunes library, where it can then be transferred to your iPod or iPhone.

The app is free and works perfectly in my testing …