Articles posted on February 1st, 2005

Cory Doctorow on DVD region coding

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005 • 1:25 pm

Cory Doctorow, being the typical North American that he is (now living in the UK), discovers the DVD region coding scheme that every non-North American movie buff has known about for years. And he gets angry at… Apple. Ahem. I didn’t even know about the fact that, in theory, the region code can be changed […]

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Word 2004: Table of Contents styles are automatically updating

Tuesday, February 1st, 2005 • 4:18 am

More on the problems with automatic tables of contents in Word. If you’ve ever used the feature, you’ve probably noticed that, when you try to change the formatting of the table of contents generated by Word, changes you make to one particular line in the table of contents automatically apply to all other lines that […]

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