This one is a major disappointment for me: As far as I can tell, it’s no longer possible to open anything in a separate window in iTunes 11 (except for that new “Downloads” window, of course). It used to be that you could double-click on a playlist’s icon in the source list/sidebar to force iTunes […]
Very interesting. Having a separate “Downloads” window is apparently too complicated and not user-friendly enough for Safari, but it’s a perfectly good idea to add one to iTunes: Sometimes you really do wonder whether there’s anyone over there who cares about consistency.
Here’s the first glitch I’ve encountered in iTunes 11 on my Mac Pro: When the sidebar is visible (“View › Show Sidebar”) and the source is a specific playlist rather than the default “Music”, the “Column Browser” submenu is greyed out and inaccessible. If the sidebar is hidden and the source is a specific playlist, […]
As a professional translator in Canada, I am constantly referring to the TERMIUM database, which became accessible free-of-charge a couple of years ago as part of the Language Portal of Canada. One thing I do not like when using on-line databases, however, is having to retype things. Whenever I have to look up a term, […]
I know it’s old news, but I came across this sentence this morning: So, apparently, Mr. Toobin’s astonishing journalistic skills include the ability to spot future US senators when they are six or seven years old and interview them right there on the spot. Given that Mr. Toobin was born in 1960 and that Elizabeth […]
Ever since I upgraded to Mountain Lion (at least I think that’s when it started), I’ve been experiencing this weird glitch in Numbers ’09, with table cells that are formatted using a yyyy/mm/dd date format. The cell looks OK when I select it: But then as soon as I enter it to edit it, I get […]
In Lion (OS X 10.7) and Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8), Mail has a bug that, for certain types of e-mail accounts at least, causes the application to fail to identify sent messages containing attachments as such. The paperclip icon never appears in the message list, and the “Remove Attachments” command is greyed out, even […]
Pages ’12 obviously does not exist at this point in time. There have been no news about a new version of the iWork suite for OS X in years, and for all we know we might not get a significant update for another two or three years. Yes, the situation is that depressing. This cannot stop […]
As far as I can tell from the way Word 2011 runs on my machine, Microsoft’s Mac Office developers have once again demonstrated their crass ignorance of foreign language issues. Since 1990, there are two alternate spellings in French, the “traditional” one and the “rectified” or “new” spelling. The changes introduced in the new spelling affect […]
I don’t know about this iCloud thing. I really don’t know… I was away on a business trip earlier this week and had taken my iPad along. While browsing in Safari with the iPad, I noticed that my bookmarks bar contained two copies of a folder that I call “My Sites”, which contains bookmarks for […]
This is a constant annoyance and something that Apple does not appear to be aware of. I am a registered user of the Apple Support Communities (formerly Apple Discussions) web site. Apple’s site is designed (presumably for technical reasons) so that it does not keep you logged in for very long. This means that you […]
Editing PowerPoint slides with PowerPoint 2011 is absolutely maddening. As a professional translator, I sometimes have no choice but to work directly in PowerPoint, and each time I end up exceeding my frustration quota because of PowerPoint 2011’s sheer crappiness. I’ve already written about PowerPoint flaws in the past. Each time I use the application, […]
Among other glitches that I have noticed with the latest version of Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.2), there is the fact that the “Hot Corners” feature accessible via the Screen Saver preference pane in System Preferences no longer works reliably. I use hot corners to put my displays to sleep. I have two 30″ monitors […]
As someone who has been enjoying the benefits of using an SSD drive as my startup volume for a year now, I am of course intrigued by Apple’s announcement of the new Fusion Drive technology. However, the fact that Apple has already released a tech note about the new technology with a series of warnings […]
Last week, I wrote about a number of outstanding glitches in OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion). Here’s another one, which I forgot to mention at the time: The problem is fairly obvious: When Safari is launched and proceeds to restore its windows (for example, after an application crash, which is what happened in this particular […]