Margaret Drabble speaks eloquently in an opinion piece at telegraph.co.uk: “I loathe America, and what it has done to the rest of the world” by Margaret Drabble, The Daily Telegraph, May 8, 2003 I hate feeling this hatred. I have to keep reminding myself that if Bush hadn’t been (so narrowly) elected, we wouldn’t be […]
Just had a quick look at the new Eudora 6.0 beta for Mac OS X. I was hoping that the major version number change would indicate a major overhaul. Not such luck. The new junk mail features look interesting, but what to make of the fact that Eudora still doesn’t support Quartz Text Smoothing, and […]
I’ve just spent the best part of an hour trying to locate instructions on how to take apart a slot-loading iMac to locate and eventually replace its lithium battery. Incredibly, there doesn’t seem to be anything about it. I found a KB article with a link to a PDF file with instructions on how to […]
I have a Word template for a certain type of letter that consists of two sections: one for the letter itself and one for an invoice. Each section is one page by default, and it usually stays that way, unless either the invoice or the letter gets very long. The reason I use two sections […]
I have a Word template for a certain type of letter that consists of two sections: one for the letter itself and one for an invoice. Each section is one page by default, and it usually stays that way, unless either the invoice or the letter gets very long. The reason I use two sections […]
I was going to write an item about how exciting a couple of tracks on Bernard Allison‘s latest album Storms of Life are — particularly track #6, entitled “Mean Town Blues”. Then I looked at the liner notes, and realized that most of the stuff on the album was written by other artists :-). “Mean […]
I was going to write an item about how exciting a couple of tracks on Bernard Allison‘s latest album Storms of Life are — particularly track #6, entitled “Mean Town Blues”. Then I looked at the liner notes, and realized that most of the stuff on the album was written by other artists :-). “Mean […]
A recent column on Mac vs. PC speed issues at macobserver.com is generating a lot of comments — too many, in fact, to make it worth posting one’s own comments there. (That’s the limitation of the format.) So I’d rather post my comments here. The main issue I have with the (admittedly) unscientific testing is […]
In the same vein as the “click-through” inconsistencies discussed yesterday, Mac OS X’s Aqua interface still suffers from another case of major and annoying inconsistency when it comes to buttons and the visual feedback (or lack thereof) that the user gets when clicking on them. Here’s what happens right after you click on the pulsating […]
John Gruber has posted yet another excellent item on the anarchy currently known as “click-through” in Mac OS X. Click-through is being used very inconsistently and very unpredictably across a whole bunch of Mac OS X applications, including Apple’s own. I find that it is simply impossible not to agree with John that click-through should […]
Last night, once again, I experienced a typical problem in Mac OS X. I wanted to put my G4 MDD INTO deep sleep (the Power Supply kit has helped, but it’s still a rather noisy machine). I disconnected from the Internet (modem connection in my AirPort Base Station), waited for the modem to reset, and […]
I don’t know how other long-time MacFixIt readers/subscribers feel, but I definitely feel that the quality of the site has dropped significantly in the past few months (ever since Ted Landau left, basically). I bought a MacFixIt Pro subscription last year, but if things don’t change significantly this year, I probably won’t renew it. There’s […]
I am quite a bit frustrated with Radio today. I frequently include small pictures in my blog entries and use Radio’s MyPictures tool for it. Normally I just have to transfer the picture I want to upload to a special folder that Radio checks every 5 seconds, and it automatically uploads it to my server, […]
The kind of stuff that still makes the MacInTouch web site an indispensable read, after all these years: I’ve not seen this mentioned so far, so I think it could be new. Since installing 10.2.6 it’s possible to directly type a forward slash (as in 5/7/03) in a file name in the Finder. It use […]
A week ago, I received my weekly “HMV Communiqué” newsletter from HMV.com, as usual. It didn’t look any different from previous issues. I saw a couple of items that I might be interested in, and clicked on the link to visit the corresponding web page. Much to my surprise, I was taken to a page […]