February is COMPUTER FRUSTRATION MONTH

February, 2005 is the month where the most people ever are using the most computers worldwide, having the most frustrations. I officially pronounce this month every year to be COMPUTER FRUSTRATION MONTH. MyMac.com will host daily postings, responses, and rebuttals from you and everyone you know. Let ’em pour out!

To get the month started, here are some gems:

JN: On my brand new G5, when I attempt to Index its hard drive, the indexing process begins, proceeds as expected, then stops abruptly without any message. This is frustrating. I’ll call Apple Care for a solution.

JJ: On my OS 9 G3 grape iMac, much of the incoming Netscape email displays not with wrapped text, but instead with single-line paragraphs that would be ten feet wide if the computer was that large. I know I should abandon Netscape, but I like it when it works well, which it does more often than not. But those long-line emails are driving me nuts.

DW: I was trying going back and forth on an image from iPhoto ’05 to Photoshop Elements 3 and back, and my dual 2GHz G5 crashed the hardest I’ve ever seen. What sort of bug prevents Elements and iPhoto from working happily together?

BR: I was nearly ready to throw out my Epson 2200 fancy printer, unable to get it to work at all, and I didn’t realize that the light I saw on top meant the printer was out of ink. I know this sounds stupid, but on such a supposedly great printer, why isn’t it easier to know immediately that one of the ink cartridges is out?

BA: In AOL for OS X, why sometimes can I highlight a part of incoming text to use in response, and other times I can’t? This never happened to me in AOL for OS 9.

AB: The web site of my puppy’s breeder won’t come up tonight. Earlier at a friend’s house he got the site to work from his bookmarks, but now nothing happens for me.

That’s a decent start. Your contributions are welcome. If you want to give us your initials, so we can keep track of who and what, it will help. None of your personal info gets transmitted to MyMac.com or any of our staff. You are truly Anonymous here.

Frustratedly yours,

Nemo