Category Archives: Software

Hooray for Word 2011 for getting something right! There is finally a menu option for “Paste and Match Formatting” But what’s with that horrible shortcut? I need to shift my hand to hit all those keys. Let’s reassign it to something more manageable in the Keyboard Pane in System Preferences Brilliant! (Why did I have [...]

Does anyone at the MacBU use a Mac? I just upgraded to Office 2011, and in some ways it is really nice. But in other ways, it’s annoying the pants off of me. Find and Replace The new Find and Replace is nice. I like how it’s in the toolbar, and the search pane is [...]

Starcraft 2 came out last week on both the Mac and Windows simultaneously. Great news! (If you don’t know, I hate rebooting into Windows for the games I barely play.) Aside from the performance disparity between platforms, Blizzard needs to polish off the rough edges on the MacOS version. If you got the game from [...]

Quit Adium and Delete ~/Library/Caches/Adium/Default/DirtyLogs.plist ~/Library/Caches/Adium/Default/Logs.index When Adium restarts and you open up the transcript viewer, Adium will reindex everything.

I wrote those last 2 entries using Microsoft Live Writer. It’s a really great program. It’s simple to use, and I like how everything works. But sadly, it only runs on Windows. I either have to run it in my VM, or Remote Desktop into my crummy Dell laptop. So MacBU, please please port Live [...]

Dear MS, I appreciate Windows Search 4.0. Finding things in Outlook is a lot faster. But what the hell is this? I understand that the folder is not indexed. But why do I have to use Search Companion? If you know that the folder is not indexed, why are you even showing me the new [...]

Are you excited? I am. Hopefully we’re excited about the same thing. Today, Eclipse Ganymede was released. Eclipse is a software platform that has an amazing plug-in system that allows it to disguise itself as a Java Development Environment. That’s how it sneaks in. “Don’t mind me, I’m just a Java IDE.” And then all [...]

Working on my Lab , noticed a new option in Eclipse 3.4m6 “Show in Breadcrumb” Turns out Eclipse has Breadcrumb navigation for Classes On first blush, you think it’s pretty useless. But it has some merit. Like if you want to maximize your editor workspace, you can now hide the Outline pane, and still have [...]

Oh Linux, why can’t you just let me win. This morning I decided to go ahead and upgrade my kernel to 2.6.22-14. But things didn’t go smoothly. Something went wrong, so I tried it again apt-get install -f Reading package lists… Done Building dependency tree Reading state information… Done Correcting dependencies… Done The following packages [...]