Articles posted on July 17th, 2003

Mac OS X: Hint for forcing Mail to display plain text messages

Thursday, July 17th, 2003 • 3:59 am

I cannot believe I have lived without this for so long. The fact that Mail always displays the HTML version of HTML-formatted email messages by default has always annoyed me. Yes, switching to the “Plain text alternative” was just a couple of mouse clicks or a keyboard shortcut away, but even that was too much. […]

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Digital Soap Box on “crippled” Mac software

Thursday, July 17th, 2003 • 1:38 am

Thomas Fitzgerald’s Digital Soap Box has a good post about an issue that has been bugging me for a while as well: Where are all the Quartz compositors? There is a powerful fast hardware accelerated compositing engine built right in to OX and yet no developers have taken advantage of it. Why doesn’t combustion or […]

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