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- An amusing bit on Auto-Unsummarise, actually just summarising this.
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Also on that site: the iPorn Movie Store and cutting edge physics in gaming.
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In more real physics – or mathematics rather – John Baez writes about the many things called spectra. Ties in miraculously well with the things I have looked at recently.
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If PC manufacturers try to make sleek and fashionable notebook computers – why exactly do they put a zillion of ugly stickers on them. Stickers that either cannot be removed or that the not-quite-as-style-conscious buyers don't remove.
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Jakob Nielsen on confirmation e-mails. Not that they found out anything that wasn't obvious to people who have used e-commerce sites – but perhaps making it look more 'scientific' helps. I find the e-mails generated by the Apple Store (Germany) irritating, btw. They have too much clumsily written text in them. As usual, amazon's mails are quite good – although Mail's spam filter considered them spam when I started using X.2.
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Seems like Nielsen recently gauged web-site usability:
Software quality is shabby, but usability quality [...] is pathetic.
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John Gruber about old habits not dying. Very true. I so know his 'Quit' menu item example. I also find myself pointing to the Apple menu just to use the calculator and – less frequently, probably because the Dock is in my way – going to the applications menu. Other habits include hitting Command-N after switching to Safari or TextEdit with document windows open – something that's only appropriate when you're using Command-Tab to go there and when no other windows are open in the application (read: Safari's annoying 'Downloads' window). And I tend to arrange my Finder windows and icons carefully – something that I would have given up if I really knew the OSX Finder. Another thing that irritates the hell out of me is the poor implementation of file drag and drop from the Dock or X.3 Finder's side bar thing: I am always tempted to try to drag an application from the Dock onto ScriptEditor to see its scripting dictionary.
An amusing bit on Auto-Unsummarise, actually just summarising this. Also on that site: the iPorn Movie Store and cutting edge physics in gaming. In more real physics – or...
December 12, 2003, 17:49
You can drag an application off the dock (or from one application to another on the dock) by holding down the command key; that was finally added in 10.3.
—NIcholas
December 12, 2003, 18:25
Comment by ssp: ¶
Very cool. Thanks for that hint.
It’s odd that you’re dragging an opaque icon. Haven’t done that since System 7.1.
December 12, 2003, 18:41
