Le site ConcertAndCo.com publie un entretien assez long avec Jean-Louis Murat à l’occasion de sa tournée d’automne en France. La politique, les faits divers, Michael Moore, José Bové, etc. — tout y passe, mais on y parle aussi musique avec des observations très justes. « Certains écoutent un disque une fois et après ils t’en […]
Since I have a PowerWave with Apple Pro Speakers and I don’t want all my sounds to come out through the same output (I hate it when an alert noise interferes with my music listening!), I use the excellent Detour utility to send most alert sounds to my G4’s built-in speaker and most music sources […]
This was a make-or-break day for Arsenal, who lost their first game in the round, drew the second one, and lost the third one. The game was not televised here, but I was able to follow the live commentary on The Guardian web site. And it looked bleak when, after almost 90 minutes of play, […]
The “Erase Deleted Messages” command, which never really worked right in previous versions, is now a submenu, with options including “In All Accounts” and each account separately. And it works. The action of moving a message to a mailbox folder can now be undone. (Previously, only deleting messages, i.e. moving them to the trash, could […]
In previous versions of Mail, the introductory line used by Mail when quoting an existing message used to be problematic in my case, because the sentence was in English, but the date format, while following the standard English format, would use the language selected in my Date & Time control pane, i.e. French. In other […]
I should correct what I said in yesterday’s post to a certain extent. As a reader pointed out, there is a command for deleting attachments embedded inside an email message. The trouble is that this command is not where it should be, i.e. with the other attachment-related commands, in the contextual menu that appears when […]
Mail is of course one of the applications that I use most often, so I will tend to focus on it first. Performance is greatly improved in the new version (1.3). There are several well-documented improvements. But, as Marc’s article mentions, there are still things that have not been added/restored. I am disappointed, for example, […]
I mentioned the problem with the AirPort menu extra in the menu bar in Panther earlier on… Even when it does show the status of the dialup connection in the Base Station, it no longer gives the option to connect/disconnect. Bummer. Now I also have a problem with the sound volume menu extra. It appears, […]
I know I am late to the party. But I’ve just installed Panther, and all I can say right now is… Mac OS X 10.3 puts the “lick” in slick! I’d never really bought into the “lickable interface” rhetoric, but I might have to revise my position. The upgrading process itself was very smooth. (I […]
My copy has finally arrived. It’s pretty clear what I will be doing in the next few hours. I was not aware that it came with a full-color printed manual! (At 24 pages, it’s not exactly in-depth — but it’s better than nothing.) And what about these “Software Proof-of-Purchase Coupons”? Has anyone ever been able […]
The Observer Sport Monthly has a list of what were, according to them, the top 10 best football dives of recent times. It’s a fun read — but also a painful reminder of how much in football depends on player theatrics and less-than-reliable refereeing: West Germany winning the 1990 World Cup thanks to diving, French […]
We have just received our copy of Panther (Mac OS X 10.3) Server from Apple Canada Education through the Mac OS X Server Maintenance program that we enrolled in last month when we purchased a new Xserve machine. Interestingly, I’m still waiting for my copy of the regular Mac OS X 10.3. So I might […]
I suppose that Gérard Houillier will once again claim that his team has wonderfully recovered from their recent slump or whatever — but surely every neutral viewer will agree that Liverpool are extremely fortunate to come back from Loftus Road with all three points. Liverpool probably deserved to take the lead in the first half, […]
Portsmouth were definitely not up to the challenge at Old Trafford and looked every bit like their current table position (11th). The final scoreline (Manchester 3 – Portsmouth 0) was a bit generous, but not that much. In the same vein, Arsenal were predictably all over Leeds United at Ellan Road, and ended up winning […]
While waiting for my own copy of Panther, I am, of course, reading reports on Panther carefully. Beyond the usually flashy stuff with little substance that comes out on mainstream Mac sites, there are interesting and valuable bits of information that can be found here and there. Erik Barzeski at nslog.com has an interesting entry […]