Articles posted on June 9th, 2005

Word 2004: When the Delete key does not delete

Thursday, June 9th, 2005 • 5:51 am

Recent versions of Word have this weird behaviour where pressing the Delete key at the beginning of an empty paragraph with a negative left indent actually “deletes” the indent instead of deleting the paragraph by removing the preceding paragraph mark and merging the current (empty) paragraph with the previous one. This behaviour is caused by […]

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Mail 2.0: Quick sequence of actions can make messages disappear for good (Danger!)

Thursday, June 9th, 2005 • 4:55 am

I have a sequence of actions in Mail 2.0 that can pretty reliably make messages disappear for good. It doesn’t move them to the Trash. It makes them disappear completely. This is bad. Try the following… Make sure you have a mailbox called “XXXX” (whatever) in your list of mailboxes. Then send yourself a message […]

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Mail 2.0: Moving message cannot be undone after viewing another mailbox

Thursday, June 9th, 2005 • 4:35 am

In Mail, view the contents of mailbox A (by selecting it in the list of mailboxes). Select a message in mailbox A and move it to mailbox B. Now view the contents of mailbox B (by selecting it in the list of mailboxes). Then view the contents of mailbox A again. Press command-Z to undo […]

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Mail 2.0: Unread message marked as read after undone move

Thursday, June 9th, 2005 • 4:34 am

Select a message marked as unread in your Inbox and drag it to another mailbox. Hit command-Z to undo the move. The message comes back to the Inbox, but is now marked as read — even though the message was not read at any point! (I am not using the “message area” at the bottom […]

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GarageBand 2: Refuses to move software instrument notes to the very end of the region

Thursday, June 9th, 2005 • 12:42 am

This is a rather annoying bug and, as far as I can recall, it was introduced in GarageBand 2. Version 1.x didn’t suffer from it. It happens when you select a note in a software instrument loop and try to drag it to the very end of the loop. Take the following note for example: […]

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GarageBand Tip: In cycling mode, double-click on beat ruler to play song starting from position of double-click

Thursday, June 9th, 2005 • 12:32 am

GarageBand has two basic playing modes: normal and cycling. In normal mode, when you press the Space bar or click on the “Play” button, GarageBand plays the song starting from where the playhead currently is. In cycling (or looping) mode, a specific section of the song is highlighted in yellow in the beat ruler and, […]

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