Archive for October, 2008

New Apple gripe

October 6th, 2008

I hope it’s a new one anyway.

So yeah, Mac OSX provides a screen capture utility that makes a cute little camera sound when a user takes a “snapshot.”  How sweet and usability-enhancing that is.

Well, it appears that Mac OSX makes the sound and then tries to take the screen grab.  Often I’ll take a screenshot to attach to a bug report at work.  I hit the buttons for the screenshot and then immediately go to look at the resulting file to make sure it was correct.  The problem though is that since it makes the sound BEFORE it has actually taken the screenshot, when I hit F11 to see my desktop, the resulting picture shows my windows on their way out to being hidden.

Apple, USE CONFIRMATION NOISES ONCE THE PROCESS IS COMPLETE!  It’s little things like this that are so frustrating with Apple because of how obnoxious the devotion of its acolytes are.

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Last night’s VP debate

October 3rd, 2008

I’ll have some other topics to post after this one, but I just wanted to address 1 issue quickly– the debate moderator.  I’ve seen a fair share of debates, what with the primaries and all, but I just have to say I have never been so impressed with the moderator.

I was fearful like I’m sure many conservatives were that Ms. Ifill would favor Biden, seeing how she has The Book coming out on Innauguration Day.  I saw no bias.  And above and beyond that, I liked her style of asking questions.  I’ll have to edit this post with more details once I’ve rewatched the debate.

So hats off to you Gwen.  The questions were informative, fair, and kept the debate lively.

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