Automatic phone bill payments with Aliant: Modern world absurdity
Friday, September 16th, 2005 • 2:30 pmIn which we see that user interface flaws are everywhere in this modern world.
Articles posted in September, 2005
Mail 2.0: Copied text with two levels of quoting is pasted with quoting
Thursday, September 15th, 2005 • 2:48 pmInconsistent behaviour in Mail when copying and pasting quoted text.
iTunes 5: About those lines…
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005 • 3:53 pmNotes on the use of the “glassy” 3D visual effect in iTunes 5.
Pages 1.0.2: Can’t do table borders thinner than 1 point
Wednesday, September 14th, 2005 • 10:12 amNotes about Pages’s table formatting features.
Word 2004: Insertion point in Find/Replace dialog blinking even when it’s in the background
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005 • 2:39 pmHow to get two blinking I-beam cursors in Mac OS X at the same time. Courtesy of Microsoft.
Word 2004: How to deal with corrupted tables that cause spurious automatic page breaks
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005 • 2:31 pmA fix for tables copied from converted WordPerfect documents with weird page break problems.
iTunes 5: The new source list
Tuesday, September 13th, 2005 • 10:26 amAn in-depth look at the new source list in iTunes 5.
iTunes 5: The new ‘unified’ window theme
Monday, September 12th, 2005 • 10:10 amThe new dark-gray unified theme doesn’t really bring more consistency or better usability.
EPL 2006: Day 5 (Middlesborough 2 – Arsenal 1)
Monday, September 12th, 2005 • 9:11 amIs the 2005-2006 season already a write-off?
Mac OS X’s Finder: No easy way to select file name without extension
Friday, September 9th, 2005 • 11:03 amOne of the basic facts of life in Mac OS X’s Finder: It’s for masochists.
Bell ExpressVu 9200: Lousy interface for editing event timers
Friday, September 9th, 2005 • 10:39 amUnfortunately, the Bell ExpressVu folks are no interface experts.
FileMaker Pro 8: Still doesn’t support command-click on window title
Thursday, September 8th, 2005 • 11:50 amMore inexcusable stuff from FileMaker Inc.
FileMaker Pro 8: Font smoothing problems still not fixed
Thursday, September 8th, 2005 • 10:26 amFurther evidence that FileMaker simply doesn’t care about its Mac OS X users.
FileMaker Pro 8: Still no support for Full Keyboard Access!
Thursday, September 8th, 2005 • 10:17 amThe brand new FileMaker Pro 8 still doesn’t support Full Keyboard Access. Shameful!
iTunes 5 (finally), iPod nano, etc.
Thursday, September 8th, 2005 • 9:43 amNotes about the latest Apple products.