PowerPoint Mac 12.2.0 crashing opening PPTX?

Last week, my Microsoft Auto-Updater alerted me to the release of the Office for Mac 12.2.0 Service Pack. Since I upgraded, I have had constant crashes in PowerPoint when opening PPTX files.

After a week of puzzling, I opened a WMV video in Firefox 3.5.1 and the browser immediately crashed. As it happens, I have Flip4Mac Studio installed so I went to System Preferences to see if anything was amiss. The Flip4Mac preferences applet immediately exited.

To cut a long story short, I solved both my PowerPoint crash and my Firefox crash by re-installing Flip4Mac. It seems that the Office service pack updated (broke) the Flip4Mac install on my machine and this causes a crash in every app that uses WMV video.

Since I use a lot of embedded video in PowerPoint, the broken Flip4Mac install caused a crash every time.

The short answer: download and re-install Flip4Mac - problem solved.

Sports Tracker - Around the World in 700 Calories

Sports Tracker is great, but buggy. As you can see, apparently, I circumnavigated the globe in 1:30 mins, having traveled only 10.5km, burning 700 calories.



The west coast of Africa caused me a few problems so I fell off the pace, having just sprinted down from the North Pole.

Ovi Store - Sports Tracker - Ooops...

Recently, I had to reformat my N95. This entailed the tedious reinstall of all of my apps - a task that has been on-going for the last week or so as the need arose.

I went for a walk yesterday. As it happens one of my most used applications is Nokia Sports Tracker. I always use it to track where I have been. When it works, this app really is a gem.

Given that Ovi Store has just launched, I figured I would download the app whilst walking.

And here's what I got when I searched:


That Nokia cannot get its own award winning app on its own app store is a bit of a worry...