The lastest news coming from the OpenOffice project is that a native Aqua version of the product will not be available until the first quarter of… 2006. I have tried OpenOffice. I’ve installed Apple’s X11 environment for Mac OS X, and the huge OpenOffice for X11 package. I have tried to use the software… It […]
Straight from Bare Bones: Added a “List Display Font” option to the Application preferences. This option determines the size of the font used to display lists (such as message lists and mailbox lists, and pretty much every other list in the application as well). So if you want to use Papyrus 17 now, go right […]
I have no idea what Kevin McCarra is trying to say in his August 20 column for The Guardian on the “rift” between Arsenal defender Sol Campbell and the Football Association following the incident with Manchester United player Djemba-Djemba during the recent Community Shield game. What I’d like to quote is the following: It is […]
My reviews of the Photoshop plug-ins Extensis Intellihance and Extensis PhotoFrame are up at Applelust.com: “Review: Extensis Intellihance Pro 4.0 ” “Review: Extensis PhotoFrame 2.5 ” Check them out.
When rendering pages that contain IMG tags referring to picture files, if the IMG tag contains an ALT attribute, Safari displays the text of the ALT attribute while loading the image. However, if the downloading process is interrupted before the image is loaded (when the user clicks on the “Stop” button, for example), then Safari […]
As an item posted on this blog earlier today demonstrates, there appears to be a bug in Safari when using A tags within a block of text formatted with the PRE tag. Safari renders such text using the font Times instead of the monospace (fixed-width) font defined in its preferences. It’s possible that the problem […]
There is something even more annoying than Mac OS X regularly “forgetting” preference settings that you had changed manually and switching them back to their default value. What’s even more annoying is Apple telling you that “this is normal”. Here’s a telling example: “Mac OS X: Software UPDATE Unexpectedly Resumes Automatically Checking for Updates” In […]
The move to “cruft-free” URLs for blog pages (i.e. URLs with no user-hostile content) appears to be a hot topic these days. Reading an item such as Mark Pilgrim’s “Cruft-free URLs in Movable Type“, however, along with the many, many comments and feedback items listed under it, is giving me a bit of a headache. […]
Hot on the heels of the recent BBC article on the hidden dangers of Microsoft Word documents, what do I get in the mail this morning? Not one, but two unsolicited email messages from two different companies that I had never heard of and who had obviously found my email address on the Applelust.com web […]
I have the following Word macro command in my Normal template: Sub lowerCase() Selection.Range.Case = wdLowerCase End Sub As you can see, it’s as simple as it gets. The only reason I created it is that I was getting tired of going to the “Format” menu, choosing “Change Case” and selecting “lowercase” and clicking on […]
I am a long-time customer of Amazon.com and, more recently, of their Canadian store. I’m generally quite pleased with the service. However, today I received the following email: From: “Amazon.ca” Date: Lund août 18, 2003 9:20:59 PM Canada/Atlantic Subject: ORDER “The Simpsons: The Complete Third Season” Today! Greetings from Amazon.ca! As someone who has purchased […]
For some reason, the BBC decided to leave the words “Microsoft Word” out of the title of their article on the dangers posed by electronic files. Yet the article is very much about the dangers posed intrinsically by Microsoft Word’s document file format. Without being overly paranoid about it, one should definitely think twice before […]
Robert X. Cringely’s recent column on IT productivity has sparked a few heated discussions, especially because of the questions he raises about the absence of Macintosh computers in large mainstream organizations: Ideally, the IT department ought to recommend the best computer for the job, but more often than not, they recommend the best computer for […]
First, Dan Gillmor in a weblog entry posted yesterday: You want anyone to believe security is at the top of the to-do list? Stop all new Windows and Office development for six months or a year, or however long it takes, and fix the products you’re already selling — and kill all those outrageous bugs […]
Another English Premier League day marred by highly dubious refereeing decisions, especially concerning the Michael Owen penalty in Liverpool’s home defeat to Chelsea. Owen completely missed his initial kick, but was awarded a second chance because the keeper had allegedly jumped off his line before the ball was kicked. The fact is that there are […]