I use Apple’s Grab application to take screenshots. Naturally, when I needed to grab a preview frame from a video, I followed my usual workflow: open video, pause video, select frame, grab video window, copy video window, open image editing application, paste, etc. Then, I read this and realized I was doing it [...]
Macintosh Video Thumbnails
July 15th, 2008 · No Comments
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Negative File Size
July 2nd, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve encountered this problem for the first time today. While using Transmit to upload some files, Transmit reported a read error. Transmit then lists the file that I attempted to upload as having a size of -7,686,868,318,640,340,840, if that is possible. The only recent change I made was upgrading to 10.5.4.
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Office 2008 and Office 2007 Compatibility Headache
May 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment
I don’t know what to think about Microsoft. The Europeans believe that Microsoft is a bad actor that cannot be trusted. When a third-party application encounters compatibility problems with Microsoft software, the Europeans automatically attribute some nefarious monopolist motive to the Redmond behemoth.
But, what if Microsoft was just incompetent and not ill-mannered? [...]
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