It’s been so long since I’ve really been in depth with Macs that I’m afraid I’m not going to be much help.

In the olden days, as far as drivers and the like on a Mac, one size fit all. But now that Macs are Intel-based and use video cards similar to PCs (or in the case of the iMacs, custom derrivatives of the ATI Radeon cards), you’d think they would benefit from the same sorts of constant driver updates. But like I said, I don’t really know.

Speaking of Fireworks CS4 problems, Aral Balkan tweeted this NSFW url today: http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/

Someone is most definitely not happy in which Adobe is going.

I’ve gotta add some better post editing tools to this blog and also figure out how to utilize the new comment threading that’s possible in WordPress v2.7.

I have had various shut-down problems also with CS4, especially with the totally unusable Contribute. Turns out (on the Mac) the problem was something to do with 2 files associated with the latest version of Safari. Didn’t matter if you ever used Safari or not… it still rendered Contribute useless. There was a fix posted at the Adobe forums for it (deleting those 2 files).

I’ve been pretty happy with the new features in the CS4 suite (Mac), especially Smart Guides. Except there are frequent redraw issues with Fireworks. I’m wondering if it could have to do with video drivers. I knew how to do all this stuff on Windows, but I don’t really understand how to deal with updates on the Mac side. When I go to “software update,” it tells me there is nothing that needs to be updated. I am not sure I trust what it says.