[...] Apart from this being my first Mac laptop this is also my first MacTel so this is the first time I’ve had reason to care about universal apps and all that stuff. I have all my software loaded now and there are only two things that have caused me problems, the first is Open Office and the second is YourSQL (see my article on MySQL on the Mac). I prefer to use the native Mac version of Open Office (NeoOfficeJ) rather than the version that runs using X11 but I simply don’t have that option ATM on the MacTel (unless I pay money to join an ‘early access program’). My only OO option is a beta version of the X11 version (on which the spell checker does not work). As for YourSQL, it just gives a nonsensical error and fails to start, hence I’ve been reduced to the free version of DBVis for messing with my MySQL databases which is far from ideal. …