Articles posted on March 23rd, 2004

Panther freezes

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004 • 3:27 am

Looks like good old system-wide freezes on the Mac are enjoying a bit of a resurgence, unfortunately… I experienced one the other day in Panther (10.3.3), and, based on MacInTouch reports, I am not the only one… The symptoms are very simple: Everything is frozen, except for the mouse pointer. You can still move the […]

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Word X: Wrong colour for selected text

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004 • 12:44 am

Mac OS X users are supposed to be able to define their preferred colour for highlighted/selected text as a system-wide setting, in System Preferences, under “Appearance”. This colour is supposed to be used everywhere, by all applications, for highlighting text. Leave to Word X to only comply with this requirement some of the time: What’s […]

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