Archive for the 'OSX' Tag

Right, for about a week now I’ve been having an issue in OSX whereby text is rendering very badly indeed. At random, characters are missing from blocks of text, be that in Web Pages (in Safari and Firefox) in subject lines in Mail.app, on captions on the Dock. All over. If you go [...]

In which I complain about the look and feel and Parallels Desktop for Mac OSX.o3

I’ve been using my MacBook Pro at home with a Windows keyboard for a while now. It’s been OK, although slightly annoying that the Cmd and Alt keys are reversed (which you can switch over, but that also reverses them on the Apple keyboard I use at work…).

More recently I’ve had one irritating problem though, [...]

Phishing. What a stupid word. Lord knows how we’ll persuade regular computer consumers to adapt to it. This is quick and techie-friendly anti-phishing technique, and a Mail.app gripe.

For those of us more tech-savvy (and in possession of multiple email aliases), I twigged upon a simple technique to neuter scam mails without causing the spam filter [...]

So, Apple have previewed Mac OSX Leopard. I can’t say I was blown away by the WWDC keynote, but everything there was interesting enough: The implementation of virtual desktop is gorgeous, iChat 4 looks very cool (although I continue to dislike the chat bubbles) and Time Machine might just bring backups to all (if Apple [...]