Articles posted on February 26th, 2004

Alerts in Safari: Still not quite right

Thursday, February 26th, 2004 • 7:28 am

Recent versions of Safari are better behaved when it comes to handling network connection errors. When a web page fails to load (for whatever reason), if Safari is in the background, the failure doesn’t cause Safari’s Dock icon to bounce madly and force you to switch to Safari to stop the madness. Better yet: Even […]

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Panther’s Mail: What is the Rank column for?

Thursday, February 26th, 2004 • 12:03 am

This one is a mystery to me. By default, the Mail Viewer window in Panther’s Mail contains a number of columns, including “From”, “Date received”, “Subject”, etc. One of these columns is called “Rank”. For some reason, however, this column cannot be turned off using the “Columns” sub-menu in Mail’s “View” menu. In other words, […]

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