It was a game of two very different halves. In the first one, after a bit of a slow start, Arsenal beat Liverpool in every area and the visitors were indeed lucky to be only two goals down at the break. Then Benitez substituted a couple of players, but he also must have given the […]
Minor problems with Mac OS X’s Input Menu (the optional menu on the right-hand side of the menu bar that can be made visible through a check box in the “International” preference pane) are nothing new, as many long-time Spell Catcher X users could probably confirm. Fortunately, such problems are usually temporary and usually follow […]
Yesterday, I complained about the absence of a “Save As…” command when editing a smart folder’s set of rules. Well, it turns out that there is such a command. It’s just that it’s, well, a hidden feature. When you are editing a smart folder, hold down the Option key and you’ll see the “Save” button […]
This is something that I consider a flaw in Mac OS X’s interface. When you use the Finder’s colour labels to colour files or folders on your hard drive and when you view files or folders with such labels in a Finder window in View as List or View as Columns mode, the colour highlighting […]
In Mac OS X 10.4, a smart folder is basically a set of rules saved as a “.savedSearch” document on your hard drive. You would therefore expect the interface for creating and saving smart folders to be similar to the usual Macintosh interface for creating and saving documents in any application. Unfortunately, it isn’t. For […]
I don’t know how many Mac users have noticed, but in Tiger, the folder contents synchronization issues that plagued previous versions of Mac OS X have finally been solved. In Panther and in previous versions, you would quite often experience the following situation. You are in Microsoft Word and you create a new document and […]
How cruel. Eindhoven did everything right, and then allowed one Milan player to roam freely in their penalty area in the 90th minute and then it was all over. All this hard work destroyed by a single mistake. If you heard the ESPN commentators like I did last night, you probably noticed one of them […]
In my experience as a Macintosh technical support person, there are a few recurring patterns. One of the key topics that I have to discuss again and again with my clients is the issue of file backups. There are simply far too many computer users who never back up their files — and then they […]
The funny thing about these Champions’ League games is that, even when the quality of the game is really poor, it is still compelling to watch, simply because of the dramatic tension. This return leg was a prime example. There was hope that we would get at least a half of decent football, like we […]
If you start using Spotlight seriously in Tiger (and you should), then you might soon find that the functionality available through the regular Tiger interface is too limited to meet your needs. For example, you can easily create a smart folder in the Finder that shows all files of type “Microsoft Word document” that were […]
Apple has managed to screw up once more. When the iPod Camera Connector was announced, I thought it was the perfect solution for me. See, I have a Nikon Coolpix 5000, but its built-in USB jack is broken, so when I want to transfer pictures from my Compact Flash cards, I have no choice but […]
In Tiger, the Universal Access preference pane has a setting for increasing the cursor size, i.e. the size of the mouse pointer. It’s a setting that could be useful even for non-disabled people who have very large screens. It is, after all, rather easy to lose track of the small mouse pointer on a huge […]
Fan noise has been an issue with my Power Mac G4 MDD (dual 1.25 GHz) from the very beginning. The problem with the outrageous whine was eventually resolved through a Power Supply Unit replacement program, but that replacement program didn’t do anything when it comes to the overal noise levels of the machine. This is […]
You’ve probably heard about Laura Bush’s “performance” during the annual White House Correspondents Association dinner last Saturday. The choice quote was: I said to him the other day, ‘George, if you really want to end tyranny in the world, you’re going to have to stay up later.’ Am I the only one who found the […]
While I was on vacation in Europe, I was able to use my iPod photo (1st generation, 60 GB model) to show a series of 160 carefully selected digital pictures to various friends and family members. Everything worked as expected. I just had to change the slideshow settings from NTSC to PAL and connect the […]