While I still occasionally have to launch Internet Explorer in ORDER to be able to access a web site that simply will not work in Safari and is obviously designed in a Windows-centric, Microsoft-infested kind of way, I do the vast majority of my web browsing with Safari. It’s fast, it’s tight, it’s well designed, […]
Difficile de comprendre ce qui peut faire de ce film un “grand” film aux yeux de certains. Il a certes suscité la controverse à sa sortie, mais la controverse ne fait pas l’art. Elle y conduit parfois, c’est tout. Or, dans ce cas-ci, on ne voit pas vraiment le rapport entre le sujet de la […]
My latest “Apple Peel” column is up at Applelust.com. It’s titled “From Radio to pMachine: Taking Mac Blogging to the Next Level” and it’s about, well, the transition from Radio UserLand to pMachine as I experienced it. Check it out.
I just noticed this today while holding down my mouse button on a pop-up menu in an online form on a web page form in Safari… I am often impatient about web pages loading (with my slow modem connection) and tend to start filling out forms even when the rest of the page content (typically […]
Dans le genre “film léger qui passe tout seul”, je suppose que La crise n’est pas si mal… Ça se regarde, les acteurs se démènent comme des diables, ça fait sourire de temps en temps, presque rire deux ou trois fois, mais… Faut-il vraiment que les choses soient systématiquement gâchées par des lourdeurs, des clichés […]
I don’t know if it’s because I’m on a modem connection, but Mac OS X’s Help feature is absolutely, unbelievably, unacceptably bad. Today, I wanted to do the simplest thing: Look up what “directories” are in Address Book parlance. (I have never used the feature and the AB interface doesn’t give me any indication of […]
My problems in Mac OS X yesterday, which I described in a previous item, continued later on in the afternoon, with a weird sequence of events that almost led me to reset the computer, although I was finally able to bring things back to normal. The first problem occurred when I tried to launch a […]
The C|Net technology web site has a good article on the on-going “battle” between the existing Dave Winer-approved RSS syndication standard and the new syndication standard known as “Echo”, “Pie”, or other temporary code names. I don’t know enough about the technology to really be able to discuss it. This blog is available as an […]
After HAVING to spend a tough 15 minutes dealing with some Mac OS X iffyness earlier this morning (see below), Mark Pilgrim’s latest post on reinstalling Windows XP (and assorted goodies) was a welcome relief. Yes, things could be worse. Much worse.
My dual G4 had been up and running for nearly a month. I had a couple of things to install which required a restart (including Apple’s latest Security Update), but I kept putting it off because, well, HAVING to restart is a pain when you are used to 99% uptime and no crashes beyond individual […]
By some strange twist of fate, last week I ended up with not one, but two different Macintosh computers owned by friends whose hard drive had just died on them, including an old Performa 6400 and a more recent iMac DV SE (slot-loading). My attempts to revive the hard drives were in vain. The one […]
Another aspect of Mac OS X that definitely rubs me the wrong way is iDisk. Apple obviously never tests the feature with a modem connection, because it is downright unusable. Since I keep forgetting whether the “File Inspector” window in Mac OS X’s Finder is invoked by cmd-shift-I or cmd-option-I, and since cmd-shift-I is the […]
What it’s going to take for Apple to finally see the light about all this file type/creator and extension non-sense, I don’t know. But I do know that things can be a royal pain in Mac OS X. Case in point: I do most of my web development in BBEdit, so I want all my […]
Ce morceau, disponible uniquement sur le CD-single 4 titres de L’au-delà, paru l’an dernier, illustre parfaitement l’impérieuse nécessité de se procurer, dans le cas d’artistes comme Jean-Louis Murat, absolument tout ce qu’ils produisent, quel que soit le support. Murat est le genre d’artiste qui dépasse de loin le cadre rigide de l’album de 10 à […]
Salon has a good article on issues that we will all face sooner or later when we realize that we need to access old software — in this case, the word software also includes document files — and no longer have the tools necessary to do it. I once wrote an article about computer data […]