Oral SeymourEntrepreneur. Internet, Technology, Social Networking and Search Engine Enthusiast………

As I write this on my Windows Vista machine (which is a whole different sad topic). I just erased Leopard and I am reinstalling Tiger on my Macbook Pro. It was really getting to annoy me.

• The airport controls were erratic at best and refused to show networks around me, even though I know that networks existed, it refused to connect to any of them.
• The firewall does not work, even when you tell it to deny all connections. I tested and it still was allowing incoming connections. I work with sensitive files and sometimes I have to use public networks to access email and I can’t afford a security breach, for my sake or my clients’.
• Photoshop works but always hangs, Dreamweaver works but always hangs. I know that many people have these programs working fine but it is not working on mine and I tried everything to get them working.

• My first installation of Leopard I did an upgrade and it worked relatively fine, then I did a clean installation and it refused to allow me to install any dmg archives. I redid the installation and I got the same error. I tested the same dmg files ona macbook running Tiger and they work fine.

• Most of the heralded improvement in Leopard are not mission critical to me, the iChat screen sharing is nice but not a killer app, I thought stacks would help keep my desktop uncluttered but it is worthless, the reflective dock makes it hard to see which programs are open.

Its been out for a few weeks and I think Apple should have at least fixed the firewall issue. I’m going back to Tiger……I revisit leopard when these little annoying problems are fixed.

Today, I came to the sad realization that all the technology in the world is not going to make me a more organized person.

It started with me paying almost $600 for a palm pilot back in 2002. It worked great for me in the first 3 weeks but then I started to leave it at home when the novelty wore off and I quickly reverted to the old habbits of scribbling notes on paper and then pulling my hair out when I couldn’t find them. I bought a smart phone years later with the though that I always carry my phone and so I would always have my organizer thus I would be organized….

After countless thousands in smartphones, handhelds, tablet pcs, palm pilots, handspring, windows mobile and hundreds in software to keep this all synchronizeds and talking with my laptop, outlook and online calendar…….and you know what? I’m back where I started, still scribbling notes with pen and paper.

If you were never really an organized person before, all the technology in the world will never get you there, sure didn’t work for me, and I’m one of the people that needs it.