Take a look at the Microsoft page providing a preview of what’s new in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac OS X. No screen shots. No mention of Address Book or iCal integration. No major new features detailed. Just vague promises about integrated tools such as the “Office Project Center” that will save your time. If […]
I’ve just been through AirPort hell and back, and thought I’d share the experience. Based on the feedback I’ve been getting on this blog, I’m not alone… My setup is the following. In order to provide wireless coverage throughout my entire single-floor house, I have two Base Stations (original Graphite model) both wired to an […]
Speaking of Mac OS X’s forgetfulness… It now appears that Mac OS X’s bad habit of forgetting preference settings extends to individual applications as well… Today, I was in the middle of reading an e-mail message in Mail, while Mail was checking my accounts in the background, when all of a sudden everything in Mail […]
As tends to happen too often these days with new features in Mac OS X, the Sidebar feature in Panther suffers from significant issues that shouldn’t have made it past the beta stage. For example, I regularly get Sidebar “refresh” issue, where the Sidebar continues to display a volume that I have already ejected. Consider […]
The way Mac OS X and Apple’s applications handle toolbar customization is too inconsistent and not user-friendly enough. For example, in order to customize the toolbar in Finder windows, you need to either invoke the “Customize Toolbar…” command (in the “View” menu) or drag items to the toolbar and wait for a second or two […]
Le crash de l’avion de Flash Airlines transportant 133 touristes français le 2 janvier dernier est évidemment une tragédie pour les familles concernées et leurs proches. Je ne pense pas être le seul, cependant, à trouver que les hommes politiques et les médias français en font un peu trop. Si je ne m’abuse, il y […]
It’s a small, yet significant detail, which is especially noticeable on large screens such as mine. If you go to the Finder, select a file, and hit cmd-I to get the File Information window on that file, the File Information window opens in the top-left corner of your screen, regardless of where the window containing […]
C’est mon tout premier film de François Ozon et, si je me fie aux bandes-annonces des cinq autres films incluses dans le DVD, ce n’était peut-être pas le meilleur choix. Mais on ne choisit pas toujours ces choses-là. Il s’agit en tout cas d’un monstre assez bizarre. C’est censé être une “comédie hilarante” — mais […]
I must say that the feature set of the upcoming OmniWeb 5 web browser looks very promising. It focuses heavily on improving the user experience. This makes sense since the OmniGroup have adopted Apple’s own web rendering engine for their browser, and no longer need to devote their limited resources to that aspect of their […]
Another couple of decent games, courtesy of Sportsnet in Canada… Aston Villa had an excellent first half and were deservedly leading 1-0 at half-time. But they really let themselves down in the second half and Manchester were inevitably able to get back into the game and score the couple of goals that they needed to […]
I only caught the last hour or so of this concert (with far too many commercial breaks!) on Bravo! the other night. Even so, it was a very impressive performance. Joni Mitchell is such a unique artist, neither folk nor pop/rock. She’s her very own music genre. Few of the songs — except for the […]
The Canadian sports channel Sportsnet have a nice surprise for us this week-end. While they usually don’t show any FA Cup games and we only get the later stages via pay-per-view, this year they decided to give us a treat for the New Year and broadcast no less than four different FA Cup 3 round […]
As someone who had never seen the movie and only had a passing familiarity with the music, I was pleasantly surprised by Saturday Night Fever. While it isn’t really a great movie by any stretch of the imagination, it certainly is much raunchier and more intriguing than I thought. For some reason, I expected a […]
A few days ago, I read an article at Other World Computing about using Apple’s CHUD (Computer Hardware Understanding Development) software package to activate a hidden feature in my Power Mac G4 (MDD) that would enable my processors to “nap” and thus reduce the computer’s temperature — in the hope that it would reduce the […]
I have already talked about the fact that the new functionality to remove attachments in Panther’s Mail appears to have been added as a last-minute feature set enhancement and that it’s not properly integrated into the Mail interface. There is absolutely no reason, for one thing, that explains why the command doesn’t have a keyboard […]