Hiawatha Bray, writing for the Boston Globe, has a column in the SunnComm CD protection scheme that made the headlines last week because a Ph.D. student wrote a paper on how easy it was to circumvent it and that it was therefore irreparably flawed. In the column entitled “Missing the point on antipiracy technology”, Bray […]
I am a very reluctant AOL user. I only use it because it is required for some of my work, and I try to LIMIT my use of it as much as I can. But sometimes I do have to use the AOL application. I loathe everything about it, from the visual appearance to the […]
I’ve just experience a baffling series of problems when trying to edit audio tracks before burning them to disk. The tracks are a concert recorded live, so there shouldn’t be any gaps/pauses between tracks. In both iTunes and Toast, I’ve set the pause to “0 seconds”, thereby indicating that I want to record the disk […]
In Mac OS X, unlike the classic Mac OS, you can easily launch several applications at the same time. You can also launch an application and switch to some other task in another application while the application is launching. I just tried to do with this FileMaker Pro 6 for Mac OS X. I selected […]
The whole story about the Princeton University Ph.D. student “discovering” the simplest procedure to disable the latest form of CD copy protection (just hold down the Shift key) is really laughable. When is the recording industry going to realize that the audio CD format was simply not designed with copy protection in mind and that […]
My Applelust colleague echoes my earlier column on “memory protection for documents” with a new column on what he calls “internal multitasking“, i.e. the ability of a single application to work on several different documents simultaneously. As he says: Heck, if I can convert a song to MP3 and burn a CD simultaneously while Photoshop […]
ZDNet has a fairly interesting column about the fact that an increasing number of web developers gripe about the lack of support for web standards in the dominant web browser, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. It mentions several things that we Mac users have known for years, such as the following: Complaints over Microsoft’s CSS support come […]
Yesterday I experienced a problem that I had never experienced before. All of a sudden, my connection to the Internet ceased to function. I am connected to the Internet through a dial-up connection established by the modem inside my AirPort Base Station. Both my desktop G4 and my PowerBook G4 are equipped with AirPort cards […]
It looks as if Apple isn’t quite sure how to present the software installing process to the end user. First, we had all these updates that were available as “disk images” (“.dmg” files) that would mount on your desktop as “virtual volumes” and open a new Finder window where you could double-click on the software […]
I’ve written before about my recent discovery of the music of Led Zeppelin. It was enough to make me want to purchase the recently released 2-DVD box set simply titled Led Zeppelin, which was released earlier this year. I bought it a couple of months ago, but only got around to watching it last night. […]
Like other customers who have renewed their .Mac subscription, I received a “Thank you for renewing” email from Apple the other day. I already mentioned the problem with the special offer that is part of the renewal. The offer I chose was the $30CDN electronic rebate on my next purchase at the Apple store. The […]
This is something that’s been bugging me for a long time. If you are in Columns view in a Finder window and you SELECT an item in the column, the entire line is highlighted, all the way to the edge of the next column. You can actually click on the empty space between the end […]
The English football world is in crisis following the strike threat by England players if Rio Ferdinand is not reinstated. I am afraid that, no matter how well-intentioned the England players are, they are wrong. Guardian reader Tom Brady puts it best: I used to love athletics. For me the Olympics were better than the […]
It appears that England’s Football Association did finally listen to the voice of reason after all after the Sol Campbell hearing regarding his alleged “violent conduct” against Manchester United’s Djemba-Djemba during the Community Shield game in August 2003. Sol Campbell escapes with a £20,000 fine and no ban. This is good news not just for […]
In later versions of the classic Mac OS, it used to be that, when your printer ran out of paper, the system would display a small, unobtrusive windoid saying just that, i.e. that the printer was out of paper. You could just get up, go to the printer, and refill the paper tray. By the […]