If there is a computer god, he/she really does have a great sense of irony. Having been part of the Apple Seed program for Mac OS X 10.4, I have had to deal with my share of shaky builds and ugly bugs. But I’ve been through it all. Then I joined the Apple Seed program […]
I am afraid Mac OS X 10.4 suffers from a major bug that affects users with calibrated display profiles (created using Mac OS X’s Display Calibrator assistant). The symptoms of the bug are the following. Say you have created a customized calibrated profile for your display using Mac OS X’s Display Calibrator assistant and called […]
It certainly was quite a night, and quite a comeback. Whether it was actually a great game of football is another matter. Several of the goals were scored because of poor defensive mistakes (bad marking on the first Milan goal and the first Liverpool goal, lack of concentration on the second Milan goal, bad goal-keeping […]
It’s funny that I should discuss two very similar, yet totally unrelated bugs/flaws in Tiger on the same day. Try the following. Switch from your current application to System Preferences, goes to the “Print & Fax” preference pane, then select one of the printers in the list on the left-hand side of the “Printing” pane […]
I am afraid that the interface for the results of a Spotlight search is extremely poor. There are numerous issues, some of which are blatantly bad UI choices. For starters, Mac OS X 10.4 uses two totally different ways of presenting Spotlight search results depending on whether you are conducting a search in the Finder […]
An undeserved win if I ever saw one… The Gunners were dominated and outplayed throughout the game. There were some feeble attempts to string together a few passes that might lead to a goal, but most of it was stifled without too much trouble by the Manchester United defence. Manchester United, on the other hand, […]
Safari 2.0 suffers from new flaws (not there in version 1.x) that probably affect primarily people with slow Internet connections, such as myself. (I had a dream last night that high-speed Internet had finally become available in our neighbourhood. Unfortunately, it was just a dream. That’s how desperate I am.) In order to experience these […]
Apart from the addition of the Spotlight-related features, the Finder has barely changed in Mac OS X 10.4, and that’s a major disappointment, because there are so many things that could be improved, from the performance to the user interface. One thing that hasn’t changed at all, for example, is the way the Desktop works […]
In Mac OS X 10.4, for reasons that they have not disclosed, but that might have to do with trying to avoid the confusion generated by multiple Scripts menu, Apple decided to do away with the application-specific Scripts menu in Mail and Safari. This doesn’t mean that you can no longer have application-specific scripts that […]
My colleague had this problem for a very long time… She has tons of Photoshop files, but when she double-clicked on them in the Finder, they would not open in Photoshop CS. The only way that she could open them was to go to Photoshop CS first and then use the “Open…” command in the […]
On Saturday, I noted that, in its most recent incarnation, Safari was smart enough to strip the extraneous return character at the end of a line when pasting such a line in a single-line text entry field in a Web form. Unfortunately, Safari is not that smart when the Clipboard contains a line of text […]
When you view a multiple-page PDF file in Preview 3.0 (in Tiger), if you are reading, say, page 4 of the PDF file, and then close the PDF file and re-open it, or even quit Preview, relaunch Preview, and re-open the PDF file, it opens on page 4. In other words, Preview 3.0 remember which […]
One of the major drawbacks of Mac OS X’s Address Book as far as I am concerned is that it’s not really hierarchical. You can create groups of cards, but you cannot create groups of groups of cards. More accurately, you can actually add a group (say, Group A) to an existing group (say, Group […]
How is that for a season finale? It is true that there was nothing at stake in this game. Everton had already secured fourth spot and Champions’ League qualification. And Manchester United’s home defeat against Chelsea on Tuesday had confirmed beyond any mathematical doubt that Arsenal would finish runners up. But still… There were emotional […]
Launch TextEdit. Create a new document. Hit “Save As…“. Go to a location already containing a folder called “MyFolder“. Click on the “New Folder” button at the bottom of the “Save As” dialog sheet. In the “New Folder” dialog box that opens, type “MyFolder“. Here’s what you get: That’s right. When you type the name […]