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Silversleeves

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joined on 05/15/07
last updated 06/24/07
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Mac Realist, Zany Pragmatist

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TextEdit -- Apple's "part-of-the-deal" (i.e., installed as part of the operating system) text editor/word-processor -- introduced saving in Word and HTML formats with the version for OS X Panther 10.3.

But there's one glaring inconsistency: smart quotes are still not a user-definable preference for most users.

Oh you can set them, if you know the hotkeys. But that still falls short of AppleWorks, Microsoft Word and a gaggle of other text editors and word-processing applications availa... read more
Wed, May 23, 2007 - 12:21 PM permalink - 0 comments
 
The two most popular and pervasive home computer operating systems' manufacturers are "led" by two men who, in my opinion (when the issue is Internet-to-home-user security), could lately best be described as Playground Monitors whose playgrounds are at rival schools. There's the one whose school is public in the American sense and the other which is day-prep in the general sense. Guess whose is which and you'll probably guess wrong. In the first instance, Apple's Steve Jobs might, so says the... read more
Wed, May 16, 2007 - 10:47 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
I've tended to post stuff on forums that would make better blog-matter and vice-versa. That'll probably happen here, too. Fair warning.
Wed, May 16, 2007 - 10:03 AM permalink - 0 comments
 
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