ISSN 1496-3221
November 24, 2002
Oh, the wondrous potential of pre-bloat Microsoftian application development. Complex formula-based calculations, multi-column linkable worksheets, context sensitive help and other aspects of pure electronic spreadsheet joy — all yours on a single 400KB floppy disk. Brought to you from the compunabula archive.
November 22, 2002
Our favourite monolithic communications behemoth is really good at looking like they want to listen to their customers. Of course, looks aren’t everything. Scratch a bit of the colourful patina off the surface, and you’ll find a cold corporate infrastructure that honestly couldn’t care less. But that doesn’t mean they don’t put up a good … More
November 22, 2002
Here’s a wonderful bit of speculation to chew on while hanging around the espresso machine this afternoon. Danyon pointed out an anomalous blip in this Mac OS X features table. Toward the bottom of the page, the last item in the “Other Features” section notes that Jaguar includes a little something called “Amd support”. Ignoring … More
November 21, 2002
Let’s say someone has built a system that has the ability to report the status of a given action using a series of differentiating error codes. You might assume that the person who built said system would encourage the use of those error codes in order to offer feedback to the user and otherwise communicate … More
November 19, 2002
Tired of having that Enter key on your PowerBook right where any sane hardware designer would have put a Command key? Remap your keyboard six ways from Sunday with the OS X kernel extension DoubleCommand. It’s obfuscatingly delicious.
November 19, 2002
Does anyone else find the name of this product just a tad bit inaccurate? Even the support copy says that Art Directors Toolkit is for “…designers and production artists alike”. So where does the Art Director part come in? Does the software hover around your desk and point out the most obvious out-of-place bits? Does … More
November 19, 2002
Ceramic dog guarding vintage Linotype specimen book.
November 17, 2002
Nothing like a post-bubble investment to bring your financial reality into focus. And if you still happen to have a few shekels left in your business bloomers, have I got a web address for you. The available domain name of the week is dotcompoop.com. I know, I can’t believe that one wasn’t taken either. In … More
November 15, 2002
Erm… var t = document.form.text.value.replace(‘&’, ‘%26’) ; Ah, that’s better.
November 15, 2002
Back at the shop we’ve come across several niggly bits and other annoyances while using Adobe InDesign to produce our catalog. Don’t get me wrong, we adore using InDesign nearly as much as we enjoy vehemently abusing QuarkXpress. However, nothing is truly perfect, especially when it comes to software. And the longer you use a … More