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Thursday, October 17, 2002 |
Office:X Update Fixes Word Problems
Well, it looks like the new updater for Office:X that Microsoft released today fixes all of the bugs that have plagued me since I "upgraded" my machine to Jaguar and Word:X started behaving like crap.
Fonts work right. Selection in multi-line-spaced copy works. Save and open don't crash. Printing works fine.
I still have my objections to this product but at least now it seems for the moment to have stabilized and become usable once again.
5:38:49 PM 
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Mozilla 1.2 Beta Improves
I just downloaded the Mozilla 1.2b release for my OS X box this afternoon and I've been running it for a bit now. It improves some stuff and adds a feature I had on my wish list.
Type-ahead, which was sluggish at best and ugly at worst, works fine in this release. That's most encouraging.
One of the things I love most about Mozilla is tabbed browsing: opening new pages in tabs in the same window rather than separate windows. This is brilliant! You can save these groups as single bookmarks. And now, in this release, you can make one of these groups your home page. So now all the sites I want to be sure to visit at least daily show up as soon as I open my browser. Hot!
5:33:57 PM
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Macworld move doesn't please Apple.
Apple Pulls Out of Macworld. Macworld is returning to Boston, but Apple isn't. The giant technology show will return home, but Apple is staying away. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] (comments) [Mac Net Journal]
I have sort of mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I have always found the MacWorld Expo folks to be a bit arrogant and high-handed, to say nothing of arbitrary. I know that someone else has taken over the show now. But the taste lingers.
OTOH, for Apple to try to dictate how the conference company does business by withholding its support from the major conference that exists solely to promote its brand? That's just stupid. Short-sighted. Typical Apple strategy: ready, fire, aim.
4:45:20 PM
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© Copyright 2002 Dan Shafer.
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