I recently had the opportunity to give Apple’s Mighty Mouse a good test-drive. I was really excited when this mouse was announced. What a perfect compromise: a two-button mouse that can masquerade as a single-clicker for the frightened masses! My excitement turned to slight concern as the informal reviews started appearing on the web. People […]

While waiting for Apple to fix the many bugs that I described in my recent posting, I thought I’d hack in with Interface Builder and fix some of my gripes myself. For the benefit of anybody who shares my grievances, I describe the process here for fixing several of the problematic behaviors. Note: This is […]

Apple’s 10.4.3 update includes a nice surprise: the search field for the Keychain Access application is now case-insensitive! How many times I’ve fumed and fussed about this shortcoming. At last I can search for “etrade” and find a note called “ETrade info.” Though vastly improved, by no means is the Keychain Access application perfect. In […]

I have been plagued by a bug I see often in Terminal. I know it’s been at least months, and it may have even been years. But it’s gotten worse lately. I call it the “phantom [Process Completed] bug.” The symptoms of this issue are that every so often an innocent attempt to open a […]