Panther: Font Panel
October 30th, 2003 by Daniel J. Wilson
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October 28th, 2003 by Daniel J. Wilson
Microsoft has placed three different search function access points in one window. Do they provide different functionality?
Aside from that odd repetition, the only other thing that really stands out are the gigantic controls and sidebar. Are these items resizable? I know you can turn the sidebar off altogether, but it looks like [...]
Panther: Finder observations
October 27th, 2003 by Daniel J. Wilson
Mounted drives
The display of mounted network drives leaves a lot to be desired, as displayed in this image. Clicking on the sidebar icon of a mounted drive highlights the startup disk and shows the mount as an alias in /private/var/automount/Network/Local/ rather than simply displaying the mount’s contents in the first column. The current [...]
Reason #435
October 27th, 2003 by Daniel J. Wilson
Among the many reasons I am glad I do not use Windows is this Ask Slashdot. The description of this “New.net” software is rather scary. Overwriting the system’s TCP/IP stack?! How can the OS allow that?!
I am fully aware that capable system administrators can block this sort of thing. How many [...]
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OS X Defragment?
October 27th, 2003 by Daniel J. Wilson
I have never defragmented my iMac’s hard drive in the nearly two years that I’ve had it. No performance degradation, no disk errors. If it ain’t broke . . .
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OS X Panther impressions
October 26th, 2003 by Daniel J. Wilson
Expose is great. The current implementation is good, but I see some room for improvement.
Safari is definitely faster. I’ll have to experiment with the new khtml opacity properties and CSS2 text shadowing.
The very annoying high CPU load audio playback jerkiness that was introduced with the 10.2.8 update has vanished.
The Dock has not improved [...]
Re-issues and paying double
October 24th, 2003 by Daniel J. Wilson
Online music services offer the potential to alleviate one of my great annoyances with record labels - the scam of re-issuing albums with “improved” sound quality or a couple of additional tracks. Take Miles Davis’s classic “Kind of Blue” - should I really have to pay full price for the re-issue that adds ONE [...]
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Music Branding Mozilla
October 23rd, 2003 by Daniel J. Wilson
I agree with Steven Garrity’s document claiming that Mozilla’s various projects need a substantial overhaul in the visual branding department. For OS X, along with adopting the Apple recommended guidelines for icons, the Pinstripe themes by Kevin Gerich should be made the defaults for both the SeaMonkey and the Firebird/Thunderbird (once available) packages. [...]
October 22nd, 2003 by Daniel J. Wilson
Why don’t we Mac users have to deal with shit like this? We are clearly suffering from an acute lack of software options.
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