Dear oh dear. They really have done it, haven’t they? They have taken what had evolved into a rather decent word processor / page layout application and have eliminated so many useful features that it effectively is now a piece of useless junk, and I honestly have no idea for whom this latest version of Pages […]
A couple of years ago, I wrote about the annoying default behaviour of the “Link” inspector in Pages ’09, which is used to turn the selected text into a link: What’s annoying about it isn’t just that the “Link” inspector is the only way to create such a link, but also that, each and every time […]
Long-time Betalogue readers know that I am an enthusiastic user of Spell Catcher X. Its multilingual spell checking and automatic text entry features are invaluable in my daily work and I totally depend on them for sustaining my high level of productivity. However, while it already does a lot, and does more with each new […]
Too many commands don’t have shortcuts, and cannot be easily repeated.
As regular Betalogue readers know, due to comment spam issues, I was recently forced to change the default behaviour on my blog for users wanting to post comments on a blog item. Betalogue readers now have to register before they can post a comment. Before that, unregistered users could see a form at the bottom […]
The default templates included in WordPress are OK, but lack flexibility. While waiting to find a solution for searching items that match more than one category criterion (I still don’t have a workable solution), I thought I would at least develop a nicer interface to access the WordPress archives on my employer’s web site. The […]
Since VBA is gone, we have to start all over again with AppleScript.
A 100% reproducible crash in a non-100% reproducible user environment. Grr.
Where customized keyboard shortcuts are stored in Mac OS X, and how to restore them from a backup after a system reinstall.
Well, Mark Ghosh, the author of the Nicer Archives mod discussed earlier today, did get back to me today, which was greatly appreciated. And together we were able to identify what the problem was. It turns out that, in the process of customizing his Nicer Archives mod in order to make it look like my […]
I am having fun these days developing and designing a web site powered by the WordPress blogging system. It’s working well for the most part. Yesterday, however, I encounted a problem that might have left me stuck for a long time if I hadn’t developed a general awareness of potential Unicode-related issues over the years. […]
As indicated in the comments on yesterday’s item on an unfathomable paragraph spacing behaviour in Word, it turns out, as I suspected, that the behaviour is intentional. It’s actually a feature called “HTML Paragraph Auto Spacing” and can be turned off or on on a document-specific basis through the “Compatibility” pane in Word’s “Preferences” dialog […]