Articles posted on July 4th, 2003

La belle Zazie

Friday, July 4th, 2003 • 11:17 pm

Quand j’ai vu le titre et l’image de la couverture du dernier DVD de Zazie, Ze Live, j’ai ÈtÈ pris d’une certaine inquiÈtude. Le cÙtÈ “bonheur domestique” de la thÈmatique (Zazie squatte le Bataclan…), des photos et illustrations, le caractËre plutÙt faible du titre choisi… tout cela me faisait craindre le pire — c’est-?-dire, en […]

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More on Adobe Reader 6

Friday, July 4th, 2003 • 10:23 pm

Further to what I wrote a couple of days ago about Adobe Reader 6 for Mac OS X, I have now found a keyboard shortcut for cases when invoking the Search “pane” (for lack of a better word to describe this UI aberration) shows the results of a previous search instead of the Search field. […]

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Mac OS X: Another example of inappropriate click-through

Friday, July 4th, 2003 • 6:25 pm

Here’s another example of click-through behaviour in Mac OS X that gets in the way of what you’re trying to do instead of being useful. As you know, in Mac OS X if you hold the command key down while clicking on a background window’s title bar, you can move that window without bringing it […]

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MIT Columnist: iTunes Music Store is no substitute for Napster

Friday, July 4th, 2003 • 6:19 pm

Henry Jenkins at MIT’s Technology Review has a good article on what Napster really meant for him (and me and many music lovers out there) and how Apple’s iTunes Music Store, in its current incarnation, is simply no substitute for it: … [P]erhaps Apple itself will come up with a better way for consumers to […]

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