Unlike Word 2004, which supports Quartz font smoothing in most areas of its interface, Excel 2004 still does not support the technology properly. Whenever you try to edit a table cell, for example, you get something like this: I realize that my preferred selection highlighting colour is a bit darker than the default shades suggested […]
I am currently experiencing major server problems. On an almost daily basis now, my provider says that there is something in my blogging system that keeps monopolizing server resources, to the tune of 80% or more of CPU power (which is obviously unacceptable for my provider, who hosts many different customers on his server). We […]
Take a look at the picture below: The first cell in the second row contains 6 paragraphs of text, where the first paragraph has 6 pts of “Space Before” and the last one has 6 pts of “Space After”. All the other paragraphs have 0 pts of “Space Before” and “Space After”. If I copy […]
Direct quote from The Proteus Operation by James P. Hogan (1985): “The root of genius lie in the ability to make decisions, the will to stand by them and act in the face of adversity, and the nerve to see the action through unswervingly to its completion.” Sounds familiar? Guess which character actually utters these […]
I am afraid I have had to disable the comment form, which means that you won’t be able to submit comments. Apparently, something in my blog has been monopolizing over 80 percent of the processing power of my host’s server, and my host is not happy about it. The host reports that he’s getting a […]
Those bloody @mail.ru subscribers are starting to get on my nerves. Almost every day now, I get new member registrations from people with names such as “khadbz” and e-mail addresses such as ueukm29@mail.ru. Now, I am always willing to give people the benefit of the doubt — but in this case I think it’s pretty […]
Well, it had to happen, didn’t it? There were obviously (just) enough paranoid crazies in America to elect George W. Bush and his clique for a second term. For most of the international community, it’s going to be four more years of constant head shaking in disbelief each time this administration does or says something, […]
Arsenal are obviously in a bit of a slump, and the injuries to Sol Campbell and Gilberto are not helping. The defeat at Manchester United 10 days ago has obviously hurt the team, and they badly need a convincing victory at Crystal Palace on Saturday to restore their own confidence and the confidence of their […]
Last year, I wrote a review of MacLinkPlus Deluxe 14 for Applelust.com. In this review, I lamented the fact that the application still didn’t support long file names (i.e. file names longer than 31 characters) properly, and that the new, revamped interface was both rather non-intuitive and esthetically challenged. I also know for a fact […]
I have a Word document from somebody else for which I need to use Word’s “Track Changes” feature. So I go to the “Highlight Changes” dialog box and do what I usually do, which is to check the “Track changes while editing” option and uncheck the “Highlight changes in printed document” option. I edit the […]
Unfortunately, this game was not televised here in Canada, so all we got were the highlights shown last night on Fox Sports World Canada. Contrary to the impression I got from reading Wenger’s comments after the game, it looks like it was actually a fairly decent game, and that Southampton had to rely on an […]
With Mac OS X, Apple has been providing a variety of basic office management tools, most notably iCal for calendar events/appointments, and Address Book for contact information management. Apple has also made the data recorded by these tools available to third-party applications. For example, we now have a variety of third-party tools that let us […]