Caught a report on TV the other day about… the weight of (American) football athletes. It was downright scary. Some of these guys weigh over 300 pounds, and are obviously obese, no matter how physically strong they are. If you put that next to the typically overweight baseball players and definitely not slender hockey players […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
A while ago, I wrote about keyboard shortcuts not working reliably in Word X’s “Find/Replace” window. Sometimes they do work as expected, sometimes nothing works: Return doesn’t press the “Find” button, cmd-A does not “Replace All”, esc does not “Cancel”, and tab does not switch between the “Find” and the “Replace” fields. I have no […]
Here’s a strange story about acts such as Metallica and Red Hot Chili Peppers refusing to let Apple sell their music as individual tracks on the iTunes Music Store. I don’t really see what the big deal is. Last time I checked, Apple did allow artists to restrict sales to entire albums only. It’s an […]
I probably have a printer setup that’s not exactly orthodox for Mac OS X: I’m still using an 8-year-old HP LaserJet 5 MP which works like a charm and has never required any kind of maintenance. Of course back in 1995 this printer was LocalTalk-only, and I never purchased an Ethernet-based print server. Instead, I […]
New York Times writer John Markoff has a good column on “trusted computing” à la Microsoft: Microsoft’s use of the term ‘trusted computing’ is a great piece of doublespeak,” said Dan Sokol, a computer engineer based in San Jose, Calif., who was one of the original members of the Homebrew Computing Club, the pioneering PC […]
The more I use the free Adobe Reader 6 for reading/viewing PDF files, the more I am puzzled by the strange mix of nice little touches and utterly awkward UI choices that it is made of. For example, I am in the process of translating a long PDF file. This morning I noticed, when opening […]
I find it particularly annoying when certain web sites decide to make some of their contents accessible through so-called popup windows and these popup windows, created by some JavaScript code in the link code, have settings that intrude on the user’s browsing habits and preferences. For example, the times.co.uk web site has a search field […]