Articles posted in October, 2005

GarageBand 2: Requires user attention when launching in background

Monday, October 31st, 2005 • 12:04 pm

When computers want to control the way the user manages his time.

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EPL 2006: Day 11 (Tottenham 1 – Arsenal 1)

Sunday, October 30th, 2005 • 11:22 am

A game of two halves, and possibly a turning point.

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Bell ExpressVu 9200: Caller ID feature doesn’t work

Sunday, October 30th, 2005 • 11:03 am

The convenient Caller ID feature on the new PVR units is defective.

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Bell ExpressVu 9200: Daylight Savings Time change screws up one-off timers

Sunday, October 30th, 2005 • 10:44 am

A really bad bug with the Daylight Savings Time change.

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Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: Mac OS X’s menu bar

Thursday, October 27th, 2005 • 3:21 pm

Menu extras can’t use colour pixels for anti-aliasing.

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GarageBand 2: How to adjust note lengths

Thursday, October 27th, 2005 • 11:10 am

Some tips about adjusting note durations in GarageBand’s Track Editor.

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Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: More about BBEdit and Mac OS X

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 • 4:19 pm

A retraction of sorts.

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Word 2004: Dumb ‘smart cut-and-paste’ with line breaks

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 • 3:53 pm

Cutting a line with a manual line break inserts a superfluous space character.

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Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: FileMaker Pro

Wednesday, October 26th, 2005 • 2:16 pm

Fully-owned Apple Subsidiary + Proprietary Interface Controls = Ugly White Smears.

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Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: Pages 1.0.x

Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 • 10:53 am

Cocoa applications are not immune. They just have different problems.

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EPL 2006: Day 10 (Arsenal 1 – Manchester City 0)

Saturday, October 22nd, 2005 • 10:22 pm

Le cock-up.

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Pages 1.0.x: Exporting as Word document loses manual line breaks

Friday, October 21st, 2005 • 4:16 pm

Something you need to know if you export Pages documents in Word format.

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Pages 1.0.x: Styles drawer ignores your preferred selection colour

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005 • 5:10 pm

Another case of Apple not being consistent with its own standards.

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Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: BBEdit 8

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005 • 2:49 pm

Yup. Even Bare Bones Software.

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Anti-Aliasing Hall of Shame: MacLinkPlus Deluxe 15

Wednesday, October 19th, 2005 • 2:41 pm

The top performer in terms of smoothed text illegibility.

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