Attention to detail is good! John Gruber has an excellent article on the text rendering improvements in Panther. His conclusion:
Panther’s improved anti-aliasing epitomizes the best of Apple. The smallest details matter. Perfection is worth striving for. Great is OK, but insanely great is better.
I couldn’t agree more.
Mac OS X 10.3.1 (Build 7C107) Update is now available. The FW issue has been partly addressed, but it’s still recommended, that you contact the vendor of your FW disks. Personally I haven’t even tried connecting my FW disk, but I will see…
Might help some of you:
Try resetting PRAM as a last resort for fixing VPC performance problems.
Well, I haven’t been able to make this crappy app work properly under Panther. I didn’t do a clean install of the whole thing though. VPC 5.0 and the XP operating system, that I use. I can launch the app, but the hard drive I created before Panther is corrupted in some way so it’s trying to repair but never succeeds. I’m not going to pay for the upgrade to 6.01 because the app is probably going to die soon anyway. Crap! I only use it for web banking, because the banks here in Europe aren’t to Mac-friendly.
One of my personal favorites!
Shrek and Fiona return from their honeymoon to find a letter from Fiona’s parents inviting the newlyweds over for dinner. The only problem is that they have no idea that their daughter is now an ogre.
[via Lockergnome Bytes]
Douglas Bowman continues his interesting “sliding doors” series in the latest issue of ALA.
Exposé is absolutely fantastic! This is another great use for it.
“I select some text in Safari. I click and hold until it becomes draggable. Now I hit F9. All of the windows shrink. When I place the cursor over the desired TextEdit window, the cursor becomes a white circle with slash, indicating that I can’t drop there. However, a moment later Exposé brings that window to the foreground and I am able to drop my text. Elegant!”
From [Mac OS X Hints]
In fact you can drag your text to any text editor, even the weblog editor in NetNewsWire.
