Articles posted on June 10th, 2004

Word 2004 Tip: Adding a ‘Find Previous’ command to Word’s text searching features

Thursday, June 10th, 2004 • 5:08 am

Last week I mentioned my struggles with locating the “Find Next” command in Word’s totally inconsistent interface. I finally managed to assign the command-G shortcut to it. Today I want to take things one step further. Because I often hit my “Find Next” command one too many times, I find that I often need to […]

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New DVD drive in G4 (MDD): It’s a snap

Thursday, June 10th, 2004 • 3:45 am

One of the good things about my G4 (MDD) is that it has two drive bays for optical drives. It came with a Pioneer DVR-104A SuperDrive built-in, but the other drive bay was empty. The other day, I saw the pretty amazing deals at Other World Computing and decided to purchase a new internal Pioneer […]

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AirPort: More weirdness with Apple’s unpredictable software

Thursday, June 10th, 2004 • 2:42 am

My AirPort problems have been on-going. I’ve reported extensively on them (here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here!), I’ve sent bug reports to Apple, and I am not done yet. It seems that there is always a new twist to be discovered. Today, for example, I went to my wife’s PowerBook to try […]

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