Excel 2004: Lousy text wrap mechanism
Friday, March 30th, 2007 • 4:54 pmI guess that you are not supposed to enter text by cutting and pasting.
Articles posted in March, 2007
Word 2004: Nonsensical bullet formatting behaviour
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 • 11:21 amDon’t use Word’s automatic bullets. Ever. Please. For my own sanity.
Word 2004: Arbitrarily switches panes after exiting dialog sheet
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007 • 10:45 amMicrosoft Word is fundamentally crap and will remain so until its millions of basic flaws and bugs are fixed.
Mail 2.0: Arbitrarily resizes columns after search
Monday, March 26th, 2007 • 10:47 pmA simple message search is enough to throw Mail off and cause it to change your preferred Inbox view settings.
Mail 2.0: Non-standard aspects of line-by-line text selection
Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 • 5:50 pmA subtle difference that is nonetheless a constant source of irritation.
iTunes: Why does the ‘Get Info’ command not take an ellipsis?
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 • 6:13 pmThe long-standing problem of the modal track information dialog box, and what Apple could do to fix it.
iTunes 7.1’s new sorting options: Why this awkward UI?
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007 • 2:57 pmGreat new sorting options, but why the awkward UI to edit multiple tracks?
iCal: Unexpected burst of grammatical correctness
Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 • 11:18 amMore details on iCal’s erratic grammar.
HP software actually Mac OS X-friendly
Friday, March 16th, 2007 • 10:27 amShocking news: HP is making Mac OS X-friendly printer driver installers.
iTunes 7.1: Finally supports Full Keyboard Access
Thursday, March 15th, 2007 • 11:15 amIt’s only taken them about a decade to implement it…
Tom Yager stuck in 1983
Thursday, March 15th, 2007 • 9:58 amShocking news! The Mac OS does not quit applications when document windows are closed!
Mail 2.0: Problems with deleting Envelope Index file and rebuilding mailboxes
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 • 10:34 amMaybe you should not try this at home…
Mac OS X: Can’t command-click on background window title to move it
Tuesday, March 13th, 2007 • 10:56 amIn Mac OS X, command-clicking on a background window’s title bar is a right-old mess.
Spotlight: How can you have two blinking cursors at the same time?
Friday, March 9th, 2007 • 6:45 pmA tale of two blinking I-beam cursors, and what it says about the Spotlight UI…