Not loving Stacks on Leopard?
Via Matt Legend Gemmell I found Quay – a way to have Tiger-style hierarchical folder menus in your dock, in case Leopard’s Stacks aren’t doing it for you. It’s shareware and costs only €7.
Leopard glitches
I’ve been using Leopard for a while now and, broadly, I like it. But there are one or two things that are really pissing me off.
- The PubSubAgent (used for .Mac bookmark synchronisation) craps itself all the time if you’re behind a proxy
- Disk images don’t always eject properly in the Finder sidebar
- As I mentioned before, AirPort Extreme discs don’t auto-mount or show up in the Finder properly
- iCal seems to have lost the event details panel and has replaced it with an annoying speech-bubble thing
- There are still too many apps with compatibility problems (Pukka and MySQL being the two that are affecting me at the moment)
Time Machine backups to AirPort Extreme
I was disappointed when I installed Leopard to find that I couldn’t use my AirPort Extreme shared disc as the backup location – what I wanted was to be able to backup all my Macs to the same disk without needing to attach portable drives to them.
There is a solution – you can just enable backing up to shared drives as a preference, and 9 to 5 Mac have the solution here.
[Update: it turns out that this is a fairly long way from a perfect solution - Leopard doesn't seem to support auto-mounting of AirPort Extreme shared discs - so Time Machine gets confused when the OS starts up and doesn't seem to be able to recover. There's more on that disc auto-mounting issue on the Apple support site.]
