Nothing annoys me more than having new features added to applications and not having the ability to optionally control said “feature”. In my opinion Firefox 3 is guilty of this. I do not enjoy the new tab button that is placed next to the browser tabs in Firefox 3. There is no good way to disable the button from the preferences or even through the about:config panel.
There is however a simple plugin that allows you to disable the new tab button with ease.
Following up with parts 3, 2, and 1 - I finally received my replacement TruePower battery from FastMac. I can honestly say I probably wouldn’t have this battery by now if it hadn’t been for me E-mailing the utter crap out FastMac. Let me recap just in case you missed something, or if you’d rather not read all 3 parts. Back in June of 2009 I had an issue with a MacBook Pro battery from FastMac. The battery lost all of it’s cycles, dropped it’s charge, and then came back to life. When the battery came back to life, several cells died, they became swollen and dead. This resulted in an unbelievable amount of power loss. I contacted FastMac to get a replacement since I was under warranty. This was in the last two weeks of June. They told me there would be a back-order until the beginning of July 2009, roughly three weeks, FastMac informed me. This was fine with me. I was out of town, so two weeks went by. I shipped the package out, they received the package one week after I had shipped it. This was the cap of the three week waiting period. So I expected a quick turn around and to have my battery replaced shortly.
Following up with part 2 of the battery fiasco. I have not had any luck contacting FastMac by e-mail. There have not been any updates about the whereabouts of the replacement battery since my last post. FastMac hasn’t contacted me since writing part 2. I called FastMac today to see what’s going on. They actually answered! FastMac told me they are expecting a shipment in the first week(s) of September. The fellow that I spoke with said it could be as early as this week. I, for one, highly doubt it. We’ll give them the benifit of the doubt though. I know this post really is not anything more than a status update. I thought I would let you all know the status of the battery as of today.
Technically there’s not really a pt.1 to this post. For the sake of discussion we’ll refer to the review I posted on December 20th 2008 as part 1. I am having yet another issue with the FastMac batteries. In my review I praised FastMac for being very punctual and generally on the ball with everything.
After writing the review, some folks left comments expressing some concern about FastMac’s service. I defended FastMac at first. Sometimes one or two bad transactions happen. Now that I have done more research, my views have changed. The stories from the comments are starting to hit pretty close to home.
If you recall back in December 2008 when I wrote the review I just had a MacBook Pro battery replaced by FastMac because the one I had purchased in October of 2008 mysteriously died after only having it for two weeks. I thought at first the issue was due to me neglecting the battery while it sat on my desk with a 36% charge. Now I think that was not the case at all. I firmly believe it is due to the batteries being cheaply made. The reason I have changed my views are because I am currently in the process of replacing yet another FastMac Truepower battery. Read the rest of this entry »
So listening to one of the latest TWiT podcasts and having other various stats bouncing around in my noggin I decided to go a little off the beaten path and give you guys an opinionated and possibly biased view of the world through my eyes. I apologize if I offend or upset anyone but if you don’t like what is written or feel angry about it you have the god given right to leave now, stop reading, or by all means leave me a comment. Please do not slander or harass this site or associated sites, I hold all responsibility for what is published in this article. Read the rest of this entry »