Give it up! The Finder is fine now.” Yes, the Mac OS X Finder has gotten better over the years. “There goes Siracusa again, harping on his stupid Finder issues.
Now I know what some of you are thinking. (Or, if you use Linotype FontExplorer X, choose Tools → Clean Font Caches.) Finding Leopard ★ To do so, delete everything in this folder: /Library/Caches// The solution seems to be to delete your font caches and restart. I hadn’t seen this before last week, nor had I heard about it from anyone else, so I suspect it’s a bug in Mac OS X 10.4.4. Michael Tsai has seen it, and John Siracusa has been complaining about it to me via AIM, as well. I saw this two times last week with Monaco 10, with two different glyphs - “m” and “x”. Mangled Monaco 9 and 10 Glyphs ★ĭaniel Sandler with a report and screenshot of a mangled “G” in Monaco 9. Firewheel Design: ColorBurn 1.0 ★Ĭute Dashboard widget from Josh Williams offers a new color palette each day. They should just state what, exactly, they’re doing with their Chinese search results and if they’re embarrassed to say, then they shouldn’t be doing it.
Friday, 27 January 2006 Google Removes Its Help Entry on Censorship ★
Saturday, 28 January 2006 FaceSpan 4.3 ★įirst bug-fix update since FaceSpan - the $100 much-better-thought-out alternative to AppleScript Studio - was acquired by Late Night Software. Update: Siracusa has informed me that the fsevents API is undocumented and not supported for third-party use, and that apps that play with it like fseventer risk hosing Spotlight. fseventer ★įreeware app allows you to monitor all file system changes uses the same underlying mechanism for noticing file system changes as Spotlight. But McLaughlin is dissembling with regard to his explanation why the regular domain doesn’t work well in China - he makes it sound like a technical problem, but the real reason is that the Chinese authorities block it. This is the sort of straight-forward explanation I was hoping to see. Whether our critics agree with our decision or not, due to the severe quality problems faced by users trying to access from within China, this is precisely the choice we believe we faced. Failing to offer Google search at all to a fifth of the world’s population, however, does so far more severely. Monday, 30 January 2006 Official Google Blog: Google in China ★Īndrew McLaughlin, Google’s senior policy counsel:įiltering our search results clearly compromises our mission. Not to put too fine a point on it, I wouldn’t be surprised if most of them depend on Mom to buy the groceries. I bet a lot of the people who comment on VersionTracker don’t do much grocery shopping. Sample chapter and table of contents for Andy Budd’s new book on CSS (written in collaboration with Simon Collison and Cameron Moll).
Linked List: January 2006 Tuesday, 31 January 2006 CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions ★