Articles posted in February, 2008

Spotlight in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard): Further evidence of buggy behaviour in search results window

Friday, February 29th, 2008 • 3:52 pm

More evidence of buggy behaviour in search results window in the Finder, and strong suspicion that it is linked to the random renaming of Finder items.

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Spotlight in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard): Major bugs in search results window

Thursday, February 28th, 2008 • 6:42 pm

When Mac OS X starts randomly renaming your files and changing their file type, you know that something is very wrong indeed.

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Pages 3.0: Why can the styles separator bar be clicked on?

Thursday, February 28th, 2008 • 10:53 am

What is the purpose of the blue highlighting around the grey bar separators in the styles drawer?

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Mail 3.0: Flaky attachment display

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 • 4:04 pm

Bugs involving the display of attachments in Leopard’s Mail.

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Safari 3: Doesn’t display a warning for unsaved form when loading another page

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 • 10:12 am

Should display the warning regardless of the method used to exit an unsaved web form.

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Mac OS X’s Mail’s text editing issues also affect Safari

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 • 9:48 am

Same text editing engine, same bugs.

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Mac OS X 10.5 Tip: Repairing broken Spotlight searches in Mail

Monday, February 25th, 2008 • 3:29 pm

A partial fix for what seems to be a fairly common problem with Mail.

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Mac OS X’s Mail: option-shift-Up doesn’t work in first paragraph of e-mail message body

Monday, February 25th, 2008 • 9:24 am

Mail’s text editing engine is still unacceptably buggy.

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Weird WordPress bug: admin user reset

Sunday, February 24th, 2008 • 11:34 am

A strange bug causes WordPress to change all the values for the blog’s admin user.

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EPL 2007-2008: Birmingham 2 – Arsenal 2

Sunday, February 24th, 2008 • 10:50 am

A sickening week-end, with English football showing its true colours yet again, with no hope of punishment or change.

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Champions’ League: Arsenal 0 – Milan AC 0

Thursday, February 21st, 2008 • 10:05 am

I am afraid the handbrake wasn’t really off.

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The Death of HD DVD: Maybe the name itself had something do with it

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 • 4:21 pm

At least that’s what my experience with my father-in-law suggests.

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Word 2008: Bookmark symbols hide I-beam cursor

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 • 10:58 am

Having unwanted bookmarks is bad enough. Having to deal with the visual interference that the bookmarks cause is, well, pure Microsoft.

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Mac OS X’s Mail: Should have a ‘New Mailbox’ command in the action menu

Monday, February 18th, 2008 • 10:43 am

A pretty obvious user interface inconsistency, and Apple’s refusal to see it that way.

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FA Cup: Manchester United 4 – Arsenal 0

Saturday, February 16th, 2008 • 5:54 pm

Easily the worst performance of the season, against the worst possible opponent, possibly at the worst possible time.

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