Articles posted on February 24th, 2005

New iPods: No more FireWire? Camera Connector?

Thursday, February 24th, 2005 • 9:34 am

This strikes me as quite weird. According to iPodLounge, the new iPods recently announced by Apple only include a USB 2.0 cable (and a USB Power Adapter). This means that people with Macs that don’t have USB 2.0 ports have to purchase a FireWire cable separately. It’s rather insulting to owners of older Macs on […]

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Excel 2004: Saving as a tab-delimited text file

Thursday, February 24th, 2005 • 5:28 am

Only Microsoft can come up with such a confusing interface. Use Excel 2004 to create a sheet of data. Then try to save this sheet as a tab-delimited text file (so that you can include the data in an e-mail message, for example). Here’s what happens. First, you use the “Save as…” command in the […]

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