We are getting a bit of everything in this first round of the Euro 2004 competition. After the major upset in the opening game on Saturday, and the unbelievable reversal of fortune for France against England on Sunday, the two Group C games on Monday provided a different kind of entertainment. The 0-0 score line […]
One of the very few new features introduced in Word X was non-contiguous selection, i.e. the ability to create a selection in Word that is made of several non-contiguous parts in a document. In order to achieve this, you need to make a normal selection first, then hold down the command key and select more […]
My oh my. This was almost as good as the Euro 2000 final! In fact, it was strangely similar… and bodes well for France for the rest of the tournament. Maybe they’ve finally broken that weird spell under which they had been since the 2002 World Cup, with that failure to deliver in a big […]
In recent years, the Euro has probably become the most important international competition in football. Nothing can replace the World Cup in terms of world-wide appeal, especially with the presence of Brazil and Argentina — but there is also little doubt that the quality of the World Cup competition suffers from the presence of lowly […]
Yesterday I posted a tip describing how to add a “Find Previous” command to Word’s text searching user interface. In the comments on this item, Evan asked about a “Use Selection for Find” command similar to the one available in other Mac OS X applications (such as Mail). I suggested that it was probably possible […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Holy Moses. It looks like Apple is trying to beat some kind of record… Yesterday saw the release of iTunes 4.6, which is nothing really remarkable unless you already have an AirPort Express and want to start using it. What is remarkable, however, is the number of Knowledge Base articles about iTunes that have suddenly […]
Yesterday, I read about the release of an updater for Adobe’s Acrobat product, which I have and use occasionally. So I went to the Adobe web site to download the updater. Never mind the fact that, even though Adobe changed the name of “Acrobat Reader” to “Adobe Reader” in version 6, everybody still calls it […]
When you copy text from a web page in Safari, what gets copied to the Clipboard is formatted text, i.e. text with typical font formatting such as font face, colour, size, style, etc. If you then go to Word 2004 and try to paste that text into your Word document, it will paste it as […]
In Word, the “Organizer” command gives you access to a dialog box whose interface is strongly reminiscent of the Font/DA Mover program that we used to have in the pre-Mac OS 7 days on the Mac for moving fonts and desk accessories around. In Word, this interface is used to move customizations around, including styles, […]
I already wrote about the new “Styles” section in the Formatting Palette in Word 2004. The more I try to use it, the more — of course — I find problems with it. (As hard as it is to believe, I am willing to give Microsoft the benefit of the doubt and to try and […]
In Word 2004, Microsoft has revamped the user interface for defining and using paragraph and character styles, presumably in a bid to encourage their use among Word users, where styles are sorely underused. Rather than write a very long piece on the whole issue, I will jot down shorter notes on what I feel is […]
If you are following the latest Mac news, you have heard by now of the release of a new Apple product called the AirPort Express. The AirPort Express is essentially an AirPort Extreme Base Station with three ports: an Ethernet port, a USB port, and an audio port. It can be used to connect your […]