If this first day of the English Premier League 2003-2004 is any indication, this season is not going to be much fun. There were just too many signs that Manchester United players are blatantly favoured by EPL referees and that Arsenal players are being unfairly targeted by them. One of the goals scored by Man […]
It’s a bit mean, but it’s really funny — and scary at the same time, of course: “Power outage traced to dim bulb in White House” by Greg Palast, Workingforchange.com
MS Word X, like previous versions of the software, has a command called “Advanced Settings” that can only be used once it’s been added to your user interface with the “Customize…” command. (The “ToolsAdvancedSettings” command is in the “Tools” category.) Once the command is available, selecting it shows the following dialog: If you type “WordSwitches” […]
Today’s edition of the Wall Street Journal‘s Best of the Web column includes a long item on the recent death toll caused by the heat wave in France (which French authorities put at close to 3,000 deaths). Then James Taranto writes: Might it be noteworthy that the French are claiming almost the same number of […]
Charles Cooper at C|Net writes about the latest virus/worm exploiting a security flaw in Windows: Since when should a company receive kudos for fixing something it should have taken care of years ago?… Microsoft has argued that this is hard stuff to master. No doubt. But is it much more complicated than airline engineering or […]
A telltale sign that becoming a Microsoft product has already irreparably damaged Virtual PC: Welcome to the wonderful world of Microsoft-blessed technology, Virtual PC. (In all fairness, the previous Virtual PC updater — version 6.0.1 — already came with the same requirement, even though Virtual PC 6 itself could be installed through a simple drag-and-drop […]
As mentioned earlier today, I am an impatient web user, so I frequently interrupt the page loading in my browser before it’s complete, either by clicking on a link as soon as I can see it, or by clicking on the “Stop” button in the browser’s tool bar. In Safari, this can cause significant problems […]
As a Mac user stuck with a slow modem connection, I am a pretty impatient web user. This means that I tend to avoid “heavy” web sites altogether, and when I am forced to visit one just the same, I often click on the “Stop” button to interrupt the page downloading process as soon as […]
I have a bunch of predefined styles in my Normal template, including several styles with the paragraph formatting “Space Before” set to “12 points”. For example, the style of the selected paragraph in the picture below includes Space Before = 12 pts and Space After = 12 pts, as indicated in the “Paragraph Format” window […]
A while ago, I described a weird problem that I was HAVING in Mac OS X where I was unable to get Mac OS X to set certain files ending with “.html” to open with BBEdit by default. Well, I was finally able to try the “hack” (fix) sent to me by a reader, which […]
This is a problem that I have been experiencing from time to time under Mac OS X. After weeks and sometimes months of uptime with no performance problems, one day I notice that things on my dual 1.25 GHz G4 are a bit sluggish. I take a look at my MenuMeters indicators, and they SHOW […]
I have done my share of complaining about Mac OS X’s Mail application and its many shortcomings (still not fixed for the most part). So today I thought I would share a positive note for a change. By default, hitting the “Reply” button when viewing a message in Mail creates a new message that is […]
MacFixIt reports that all the technical support services associated with Virtual PC have been removed from the Connectix web site and users are now referred to Microsoft’s own technical support. (Microsoft purchased the Virtual PC line of products from Connectix a few months ago.) If, as an ordinary Mac user, you’ve ever tried to get […]
As a Macintosh tech support person for the local community, I am starting to see more and more hardware problems with CRT iMacs purchased 3 to 4 years ago. The most common (and least problematic) issue is a dead PRAM battery. The symptoms are often rather obvious (the system forgets the date and time after […]
The problems I have been experiencing with Mac OS X lately are still happening. Just today, as I was in the process of saving a file in BBEdit, I experienced the same symptoms again. After opening the “Save As…” dialog box in BBEdit, I realized that I wanted to make a small adjustment to my […]