Macintosh: Opera and Flash; Wal-Mart and Mac Classic
Two unrelated Mac OSX notes:
Opera and Flash As I’ve said before, Opera is my new browser of choice. But I’ve been having problem running Flash in it (no Flash == no YouTube). At first, I thought it was Adobe’s fault — their Flash 8 player was PowerPC only and I read somewhere that running a Rosetta-powered plugin in a Universal binary application, bad things can happen. So today I install Flash Player 9 – still no love. So I went to Opera’s site and noted that I was running Opera 9 and the most recent was 9.02. And in 9.01 they fixed a Java and Flash plugin issue. I installed Opera 9.02 and life was good.
Sorry Adobe for blaming you unfairly.
Wal-Mart and Mac Classic
We have some out of out of town family that gets their digital prints from Wal-Mart and then sends us a slideshow with PhotoParade. Yesterday they made another update and Gina downloaded their Mac Player, but it wouldn’t install. So I tried it and got a strange error list “Will not run on this platform.” I thought, “Isn’t that what Rosetta is for?” I googled on how to force an application to run in Rosetta. When I did a Get Info on the installer, it didn’t say OS 9 application — it said “Classic”. It’s apparently possible, but not for the faint of hear. C’mon Wal-Mart and PhotoParade. Get in the right century!