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Stupid changes in Snow Leopard #2
The F8 play/pause media key on the keyboard now launches iTunes and starts playing music, meaning you can’t use this key to play and pause music in any other application that you might want to use. Stupid.
01:11 PM | 0 Comments | Tags: snow leper, os x, mac, usability, interface
Stupid changes in Snow Leopard #1
Clicking on the volume control in the menubar, I now have to move my mouse down so that the pointer is over the slider in order to be able to use the mouse’s scrollwheel to change the volume. In Leopard I could click and then scroll without having to move the mouse.
03:15 PM | 0 Comments | Tags: snow leper, os x, mac, interface, usability
Dropzone
Dropzone is really nice.
Typinator vs TextExpander
Quick fight out between two applications that do essentially the same thing, which is expand text snippets to become something else:
Round 1 – Does it do what it’s supposed to do?
I bought TextExpander to do one thing, correct my typos. I have a chronic habit of typing semicolons where there should be apostrophes. Words like “don;t” and “can;t”. I set this up in TextExpander, set off writing an email and it failed to catch a single one of my typos. I tried several other triggers all of which worked, but the very task I’d bought it for it failed dismally. I emailed support at the inappropriately named Smile on my Mac and never heard back from them. Result: no
Typinator came free with a MacHeist promotion and has a predefined bundle of common typos which included most of my semicolon related ones. I enabled this bundle and can now blissfully hammer my keyboard with my sausage fingers safe in the knowledge that my typos get caught. Result: yes
Verdict: Typinator wins with a knockout in the opening seconds of round 1. TextExpander is left bleeding on the floor wondering what could have been and I want my money back for the lack of fight it showed.
05:30 PM | 0 Comments | Tags: osx, software, os x, mac, typing, expander, text, typinator, textexpanderMacBook hard drive replacement tip
If you try to restore from Time Machine after a hard drive switch, Time Machine won’t see your new drive after you’ve formatted it until you restart.
07:19 PM | 0 Comments | Tags: apple, mac, time machine, tip