Articles posted on September 9th, 2003

Mail rules involving email addresses still case-sensitive

Tuesday, September 9th, 2003 • 11:50 pm

Mail rules involving email addresses still case-sensitive A long time ago (over 1 year ago), I noted in an article the following: … [U]nlike other rule criteria in Mail, the “Sender is/is not in Address Book” and “Sender is/is not in Group” criteria are case-sensitive, meaning that the individual’s email has to appear in your […]

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The Problem with the French (continued)

Tuesday, September 9th, 2003 • 5:43 pm

Funnily enough, I found the transcript of the chat with Washington Post writer Gene Weingarten on September 8 much funnier than the original column that the chat was about. Is it bad, Doctor?

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Need for application-specific full keyboard access

Tuesday, September 9th, 2003 • 5:02 pm

Last week I wrote about Mac OS X’s “Full Keyboard Access” feature. Reader feedback has helped me clarify exactly how the feature works. It’s available in System Preferences, in the “Keyboard” preference pane, in the second tab. The layout of this preference pane is thoroughly confusing. The fact that the tab itself is titled “Full […]

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Word X: Poor support for Mac OS X application switching

Tuesday, September 9th, 2003 • 5:10 am

Mac OS X introduced a new behavior for application switching in which clicking on the window of a document belonging to a background application only brings that document window to the foreground, and not all the other windows belonging to that application as well at the same time, as used to be the case in […]

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Renewing .Mac

Tuesday, September 9th, 2003 • 4:17 am

Tis the season of renewals… or so it seems. Today I got an email from Apple indicating that my credit card information for my .Mac account was no longer valid. A nice way of reminding me that the account itself is up for renewal… At least they didn’t wait until the actual renewal to CHECK […]

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