Cela fait plusieurs semaines maintenant que la France est sous l’emprise de mouvements de grève qui n’en finissent pas, dans divers secteurs, dont l’enseignement, la fonction publique en général, les transports, etc. Le motif principal de ces grèves est la réforme des retraites proposée par le gouvernement. Comme la plupart des démocraties occidentales, la France […]
Today I got a flyer in the mail from Apple Canada offering me a chance to win a $2,000 shopping spree at the Apple Store, Canada web site. Hey, why not? I wouldn’t mind an nice 30GB iPod… The trouble is that the flyer came with a unique “PIN” number printed in a reserved location. […]
Apparently, the head of Microsoft’s Mac Business Unit has confirmed that no future versions of Internet Explorer will be released for the Mac. This is hardly surprising stuff. Microsoft kills the competition (Netscape) with a slightly superior product (at the time), taking advantage of its monopoly situation, and economic uncertainty, then stops developing the product […]
The MVPs I have spoken to have always insisted that Word is more stable, reliable, and efficient when you use style-based formatting rather than what they call “manual formatting”, which is what you do when you just click on the “B” button to turn the selection INTO bold characters or the ruler to add tabs […]
We already know that, in the strange world of modern America, Saddam Hussein really was behind Sept. 11 and that the hijackers were Iraqi citizens, but Bush logic has reached a whole new level in the past few weeks: “What the definition of ‘WMD’ is” by Jake Tapper, Salon.com When President George W. Bush says […]
Only one thing to say: Don’t use them. Ever. They must be one of the most badly broken things in Word in its current incarnation. And that’s saying something. I just spent an hour trying to fix numbering issues in a document I created by putting together various documents created by my wife. She has […]
Word is a royal pain in the you-know-what when it comes to editing page borders. Typically, I use a page border on the title page of a document, which is the very first page of the document. In order to only have a border on that page (and not on all other pages in the […]
In the same vein as the previous item: in French (and Canadian French) typography, the colon punctuation mark (:) always comes with a non-breaking space before. Word “knows” this since it inserts that non-breaking space automatically for you if you have set the language of your document to French (or Canadian French) and are using […]
It is a well-known fact that most computers and most software titles are designed first and foremost for American users. Often times, their “international support” is added as an afterthought and utterly fails to grasp the subtleties of foreign languages. Microsoft Word X is, of course, a particularly painful example. Take this behaviour when you […]
I find this article about Americans spending too much time on the job particularly worrying: “All Work and No Play” by Joe Robinson, Los Angeles Times Americans already work far too much for too little compensation and too little vacation time, and things are only going to get worse, if proposed changes are adopted: These […]
Because I reviewed an ATI product for Applelust.com a while back, I keep getting promotional materials on ATI products by email from time to time. Today, I got an email about an “exclusive offer” for something called the “Remote Wonder Mac Edition”, with a link to this web page. The web page contained the exact […]
This is something that I really think would be a welcome improvement. Often times after copying a block of text and pasting it in a Word document, I find myself HAVING to reselect the block of text that I have just pasted in ORDER to apply (or remove) some formatting. This is because the default […]
When I first bought Virtual PC 4.0 a long time ago, I agreed to be put on a mailing list for future product announcements. I started receiving infrequent emails promoting various Connectix-related offers, including newer versions of Virtual PC and special “bundles” with other Mac software titles. Virtual PC 6 came out quite a while […]
It’s not the first time this has happened to me: While Mail is in the process of receiving (and filtering) new mail or updating the list of messages appearing in my “In” mailbox, I SELECT a message (Message #1) that is already visible in the list of messages and I drag it to a mailbox […]
This is probably the kind of issue that varies from setup to setup… But this morning I was trying to record something off a small Sony tape recorder, with my Griffin iMic, and I encountered all kinds of problems. First, if the Sound panel in System Preferences was open and I unplugged the USB iMic, […]