Articles posted in September, 2005

Purchasing and playing DRM-protected songs from the NPGMC in Mac OS X 10.4 with a dial-up connection

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005 • 4:48 pm

How to configure things so that you can play DRM-protected Windows Media Files on your Mac running Tiger.

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Bell ExpressVu 9200: No S-VHS output and only one set of RCA outputs

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005 • 3:07 pm

Disappointing limitations in the connections available on the 9200 receiver.

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Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger): Yet more on text selection keyboard shortcuts at the end/beginning of paragraphs

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005 • 11:34 am

And another post about text selection with the keyboard, which is a related problem.

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Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger): More on text navigation keyboard shortcuts at the end/beginning of paragraphs

Tuesday, September 6th, 2005 • 11:14 am

Further notes about undesirable effects with Mac OS X’s text navigation shortcuts.

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Word 2004: Copied text includes paragraph formatting even when paragraph mark is not selected

Sunday, September 4th, 2005 • 3:01 pm

Another one to add to the long list of stupid Microsoft-specific behaviours. Joy.

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Idea for word processors: automatic character style for capitalizing titles

Friday, September 2nd, 2005 • 11:36 am

A very simple improvement for software writing tools, and musings about why such improvements are not happening right now.

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Mac OS X’s Finder: Clumsy copying process for large folder replacing an existing one

Thursday, September 1st, 2005 • 2:54 pm

Description of the very clumsy process that the Finder goes through when copying a folder containing lots of files.

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Pages 1.0.x: No keyboard shortcut to move insertion point to beginning/end of document?

Thursday, September 1st, 2005 • 12:06 pm

More missing keyboard shortcuts in Pages.

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