MS-Windows Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 14 Jul 2008
This morning MS-Office SP3 was pushed onto my machine, and afterwards I noticed that all my former “.mat” files were missing their file extension and were identified as “Microsoft Office Access Table Shortcut” as can be verified by looking at Tools -> Folder Options -> File Types. Deletion of this file association, and creation of [...]
Videography and Workflow Tobi on 13 Jul 2008
As I am working on my first video project with Final Cut Express (FCE), I will try capture the essential steps for future reference. The steps are taken directly from the user manual, but with its 1152 pages it is a bit unwieldy and not a good quick reference guide. First a few preparations: Connect [...]
Language Tobi on 12 Jul 2008
As the title of this post — Analysis of Text Jumbling and Legibility — demonstrates, jumbled text is not always as legible as is the widespread (mis)belief spurred by frequent mass mailings with texts like this:
Mac OS X Platform and Tips & Tricks and Workflow Tobi on 12 Jul 2008
If you want to print address labels for mass mailings, you cannot do that with Apple’s Pages, because Pages puts only one address per page in its mail merge function. This is fine, if you want to write a lot of identical letters to different people and also want to add custom printed envelopes. But [...]
Mac OS X Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 12 Jul 2008
For reference, I just saw the following information in the weekly list of Apple Support updates: With Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, the Finder may not fully “load.” The Finder might not respond (the Force Quit Window may also not respond), or you may only see a Finder menubar with only Spotlight and the Apple [...]