I bought the IVP Reference Collection and the software that came with it was Accordance version 6. I have no interest in using Accordance, other than as an e-book reader for my IVP Reference Collection. Some months ago I noticed that the headword display fonts in four of my modules had become unreadable (and if anyone can tell me how to use a dictionary without headwords, I'm all ears).

I went to the Accordance site and downloaded the Font fixer tool that's supposed to solve this problem. I also re-installed the program and manually sorted through the fonts on my system that might be causing the problem, but nothing helped.

I contacted Accordance help and their recommended solution was to pay $69 for the latest version of their software, or re-purchase the IVP Reference Collection (only $110). However, all I want is to restore the functionality that I had when I bought the software. I don't care what bells and whistles they've added between versions 6 and 9.

The lessons here are:
1. Avoid buying any e-books that require proprietary software to read them, or you may end up on the hook for some serious money to maintain access.
2. Avoid purchasing software from Oaktree. I noticed that they have a special $10 Accordance upgrade price for earlier purchasers of the IVP Reference Collection. The only problem is, it requires Accordance 7 or later and the only company I can find that sells the IVP Reference Collection Version 2 with Accordance 7 or later is Oaktree. Amazon and IVP itself are both still selling the old version with Accordance 6. The biggest insult of all. If I had the Windows version of the IVP Reference Collection and wanted to "crossgrade," to the Mac version, it would cost me only $39.

This is a slick app and I really wanted to use it. However, the lack of Exchange support is a deal breaker.

Update failed 2x.

The latest version tells me that it's in offline mode, even when it's not, rendering it essentially useless.

Safari used to be my default browser. However, for some reason its performance has dropped off the map. Doing something as simple as opening a new tab and loading a website causes a spinning beach-ball and a jump in processor use to 100% of a core. This is with only a couple of tabs open and on a quad-core MacBook Pro with 4 GB of RAM. Connection speed doesn't seem to make any difference either.

I've gone back to OmniWeb, which although it's also a webkit based browser, is much snappier.

Is anyone else having this problem with Safari?