Articles posted in December, 2005

LATEXT: ‘Festival’ (MP3, 04:38)

Monday, December 26th, 2005 • 11:52 am

With a little help from my friends…

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Mail 2.0: ‘0 messages, 3 unread’

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005 • 6:26 pm

When Mail’s multi-threading is thrown in the user’s face, in a bad way.

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Finder: Spring-loading in Sidebar leads to confusing display

Monday, December 19th, 2005 • 3:28 pm

Yet more UI design sloppiness in Mac OS X’s Finder.

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Mail 2.0: ‘Undo Mark as Junk’ doesn’t undo anything

Sunday, December 18th, 2005 • 4:36 pm

An ‘Undo’ command that simply does not work.

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EPL 2006: Arsenal 0 – Chelsea 2

Sunday, December 18th, 2005 • 4:29 pm

No surprises. It’s a season to forget.

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Champions’ League Draw: Arsenal get Real Madrid

Friday, December 16th, 2005 • 11:29 am

A mouth-watering tie in the Champions’ League.

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Spotlight hiccups: Even the G5 Quad is not fast enough

Thursday, December 15th, 2005 • 4:17 pm

Spotlight hiccups for everyone!

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Power Macintosh G5 Quad: First impressions

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005 • 11:06 am

Major hardware upgrade!

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Mac OS X’s Finder: Long audio CD title causes oversized Sidebar

Monday, December 12th, 2005 • 1:58 pm

Yet another utterly useless behaviour in Mac OS X’s Finder.

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EPL 2006: Day 16 (Newcastle 1 – Arsenal 0)

Sunday, December 11th, 2005 • 4:35 pm

Another bad day for Arsène Wenger, and things are looking rather precarious for Arsenal right now.

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Microsoft Office 12: So that’s what they call ‘innovation’!

Friday, December 9th, 2005 • 4:59 pm

Microsoft’s Jensen Harris writes about an incredible breakthrough in user interface design in Office 12.

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Mac OS X’s Finder: A selection is not what it appears to be

Friday, December 9th, 2005 • 10:04 am

It looks like it’s selected, but it’s not actually selected. Oops.

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Word 2004: Flaw in horizontal scroll bar behaviour

Friday, December 9th, 2005 • 9:46 am

A situation where the visual feedback provided by Word is clearly wrong.

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Word 2004: Brain-dead ‘Copy Hyperlink’ command

Thursday, December 8th, 2005 • 11:21 am

A ‘Copy Hyperlink’ command that doesn’t copy the URL. Great.

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Buy, Play, Trade, Repeat

Wednesday, December 7th, 2005 • 2:24 pm

A musician’s perspective on the recent Sony BMG debacle.

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