Mac Annoyances feels your pain. Developed precisely for the individual who can't live without 

a Mac yet can't deal with its fickle temperament, Mac Annoyances provides solutions to scores 

of common problems faced by Mac owners. Contained within its pages are hidden (plus well 

documented) tips, tricks, and workarounds designed to drastically improve specific problem 

solving capabilities. The result: a significant enhancement of the overall user experience and a 

tremendous savings of time no matter which version you own.  

Introduction 

As always when I get a `hints' or `fixit' book, I ignore the author's instructions, such as to use 

the index to find the cure for that specific itch you get when using a product or software genre 

covered by this book. No way! To get joy from a book and perhaps learn a little, I needed to read 

almost all of a book from cover to cover.  

Therefore, in my reading of annoyances and 

their fixes, I would find myself at my 

computer scratching some of the itches I get 

when using Mac OS X Panther or Jaguar 

(Chapter 1). Annoyances with Eudora, my 

preferred email client (in Chapter 2), also 

kept me hopping.  

One delight was the author's 

recommendation of SpamSieve 

http://c 

command.com/spamsieve/

. An interesting 

chapter on the Internet starts with the general 

and then focuses more narrowly on both 

Safari, other browsers and the now stagnant 

MS Internet Explorer (Chapter 3). Problems 

and issues with MS Office (the mother of all 

annoyances, see Chapter 4) those related to MS Word caught my immediate attention. Many of 

the annoyances were familiar, and the fixes were instantly valuable to me. The last section that 

proved extremely helpful was the information on hardware annoyances.  

A cure for ignored email is provided, its content has almost always been my habit. Prior to 

retirement I was fortunate to attend a seminar on effective email habits   the fix works. 

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