What better way to to recover from the nasty blow of losing at home to Leeds and losing the Premiership title four days ago? A hat trick by Robert Pires, including one of the goals of the season (ironically, right after FoxSportsWorld had finished showing its selection of the Top 10 goals of the season… […]
According to a MacInTouch post, the Knowledge Base article for the recently released Mac OS X 10.2.6 includes, among other things: … enhanced functionality and improved reliability for the following applications, utilities, services, and technologies: Address Book, AppleScript, Bluetooth, Classic compatibility, Disk Copy, Disk Utility, Finder, Graphics, Help Viewer, iChat, Image Capture, IP Firewall, Kerberos, […]
On the whole, I don’t have too many problems with Mac OS X’s default installation procedure for system updates such as the recently released Mac OS X 10.2.6 or AirPort 3.0.4. But today I encountered a problem that illustrates how much work Apple still has to do to make it really “fool-proof”. I launched the […]
The picture below shows what happens when: you start typing a URL in the Address Bar your typing causes Explorer to display a list of possible options to automatically complete your entry instead of selecting one of the options right away, you move the browser window to a different location Needless to say, if you […]
AOL for OS X must be the only application out there that still uses pre-Jaguar Aqua controls such as the “Cancel” button below: How do they even do it? (After all, Jaguar automatically changed all these controls for every application system-wide.) The only possible explanation: by using a picture of a button instead of an […]
I’m quite literally sick of even thinking about all the lies, duplicity, dishonesty, arrogance, etc. that have characterized the US administration in recent months. So I am no longer doing much reading about it. It’s just become more than I can take. From time to time, I still read things that just remind me of […]
The mark of truly great software products is how their developers have anticipated each and every one of your needs. DragThing is one of these products. Due to the somewhat unreliable nature of the Radio UserLand background web publishing processes, I have to keep an eye on the application’s “About” window, which happens to be […]
After changing web browsers too many times over the past few years, and HAVING had to export/import bookmarks from one to the other, a few months ago I decided to transition to browser-independent bookmark management. It’s pretty straightforward: Whenever you want to bookmark a site, instead of using your browser’s built-in bookmarking functionality, you drag […]
A great read by Terrence Raferty in the The New York Times on the (very relative) value of so-called “DVD extras” and on alternative versions of movies: “Everybody Gets a Cut” [free registration required] And that’s the paradox of movies on DVD: the digital format tries to make interactive what is certainly the least interactive, […]
Pete Gill’s opinion article at Football365.com pretty much sums up my feelings about this season and Arsenal’s failure to keep their title. They have tons of attacking talent, and that’s probably one of the prime reasons why we like them so much — but the defence is just not strong enough. Sol Campbell is great, […]
From time to time, I have no choice but to use Mail’s lousy Search feature to try and locate an email message somewhere inside my 5-levels-deep archive of several thousand emails. For some reason, whenever you try to find something using Mail’s Search function, Mail automatically starts updating the color of all the messages in […]
Well, you could see it coming… With a makeshift defense and great finishers like Kewell and Viduka, there had to be goals for Leeds — and Arsenal were unable to score enough of their own to keep their dream alive. With one goal (Wiltord) denied for offside when Viduka himself was offside on his goal, […]
Safari suffers from a weird flaw that does not affect other browsers as far as I know: When I am viewing my local copy of a web site that I’ve designed on my hard drive, if the local page that I have currently loaded in Safari contains a picture file, then, behind the scenes, the […]
Because of my work, I have had to spend quite a bit of time researching the United Nations web site and it has been, for the most part, a horrific experience. The presentation of the site has no consistency. There is no way to get a sense of the structure of the thing. And looking […]
With Ruud van Nistelrooy — I mean, Manchester United — thumping Charlton at Old Trafford as expected (what a poacher!) and Manchester City upsetting Liverpool on their home turf with two Anelka goals, it was Manchester’s day in the English Premier League. The Manchester City victory was fully deserved, and the last goal in injury […]