"try a workaround" is a perfectly valid and commonly used phrase in written English.
You can use it whenever you want to suggest an alternative solution to a problem. For example, "We haven't been able to fix the power issue, but we can try a workaround to get the system up and running again."
Most companies with iOS apps are scrambling to find a solution, and Nolan says that they've been in talks with TinyCo, Zynga, GameLoft, and that the majority of companies he's talked to, both big and small, are trying to find a workaround.
Over in the U.K., for example, we're seeing fresh government attempts to use an obfuscation tactic to try to workaround encryption.
He suggests some European startups might relocate R&D efforts outside the region to try to workaround the legal complexity around privacy.
However its strategy of publicly consulting on amendments to surveillance law to try to workaround the CJEU's ruling against indiscriminate data retention regimes has drawn withering criticism from privacy groups.
"Our answer is to only recommend small venues as a general suggestion (do this date idea this summer), and recommend larger venues specifically (do this hike tomorrow)," he says, explaining how they've tweaked the service to try to workaround creating unintended flash mobs of demand.
You can try updating the drivers for your graphics adapter, or try the workaround in the next section.
They try "workarounds," as when a nurse guesses at a doctor's unreadable handwriting on a prescription because she is afraid to ask.
Some tech companies try using a tedious workaround to extract data from PDFs known as scraping, but it is unreliable.
"I find myself trying to think of a workaround," says one of the unhappy customers on the Apple store Web site.
