In my regular commentary written in August 2011, I clocked up my 400th Help section in MacUser. Here is my momentarily smug reflection on that milestone.
Author: hoakley
Losing documents – cherished photos, or vital work – is tragic, costly, and wastes time. Combat the risk by designing a backup strategy.
The relationship between language and thought has exercised many great minds. Is Goddard and Wierzbicka’s attempt any advance?
A little utility to locate and run the many hidden tools in OS X 10.10 Yosemite.
Whenever my friend attaches a PDF to a message in Mail, it opens and gets embedded in the message, rather than being attached as a file. How can he change that behaviour?
Every Renault dealer in the UK must have breathed a sigh of relief when the Wind passed into history a couple of years ago, and they were able to sell cars again without having to pinch their thighs or bite their lips to stifle sniggers.
There is nothing so frustrating as watching a great movie but being unable to save it, or watch it on your iPad or Apple TV. It all comes down to formats.
A couple of preference settings, controlling automatic correction of spelling errors and ‘from’ addressing, that I have made in Mail keep becoming undone whenever I restart my Mac mini. How can I get them to persist properly?
Written following Steve Jobs’ death on 5 October 2011.
There are several uncanny parallels with the Impressionists, including the importance of the tache and plein air painting, early critical hostility followed later by acceptance, and of course the tragic deaths of Sernesi and Bazille in war.
The Eclectic Light Company 