Articles posted on May 11th, 2003

More about click-through

Sunday, May 11th, 2003 • 7:01 pm

I am assuming that, if you are reading this, it’s because you are interested. :-) In other words, there is no such thing as too much discussion on valid UI design issues. With this in mind, head over to Daring Fireball for yet more interesting Mac punditry about click-through in Mac OS X, as discussed […]

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Margaret Drabble: “I loathe America…”

Sunday, May 11th, 2003 • 6:34 pm

Margaret Drabble speaks eloquently in an opinion piece at telegraph.co.uk: “I loathe America, and what it has done to the rest of the world” by Margaret Drabble, The Daily Telegraph, May 8, 2003 I hate feeling this hatred. I have to keep reminding myself that if Bush hadn’t been (so narrowly) elected, we wouldn’t be […]

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New Eudora 6.0 beta: still not getting the basics right

Sunday, May 11th, 2003 • 1:16 am

Just had a quick look at the new Eudora 6.0 beta for Mac OS X. I was hoping that the major version number change would indicate a major overhaul. Not such luck. The new junk mail features look interesting, but what to make of the fact that Eudora still doesn’t support Quartz Text Smoothing, and […]

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Finding hardware instructions in Apple’s Knowledge Base

Sunday, May 11th, 2003 • 1:02 am

I’ve just spent the best part of an hour trying to locate instructions on how to take apart a slot-loading iMac to locate and eventually replace its lithium battery. Incredibly, there doesn’t seem to be anything about it. I found a KB article with a link to a PDF file with instructions on how to […]

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