Category Archives: software

The Ideal iTunes Browser

The Ideal iTunes Browser, originally uploaded by Subtonic12.

Firstly, don’t make fun of my music tastes.

Secondly, I think this is the ideal iTunes Browser view.

I basically live in iTunes DJ, and I still love listening to whole albums. Grid view is my favorite view in iTunes because I can see more albums all at once.

The problem [...]

Gmail Sucks at Plain-Text

You’d think that Google, a company that’s run by nerds, would appreciate that plain-text emails should have monospaced fonts and a limited line width.

Instead plain text emails look the same as rich format emails in Gmail. So when you write an email like this in plain-text in a way meant to convey a quote:

And resize [...]

Instapaper: The Kindle Killer App

The buzz is that the Kindle will die after the iPad is released. I’m not so sure. I think there might be room for both, simply because I think the iPad will not be a good reading device.

I don’t know that for sure, but I do know what it’s like to read long articles on [...]

Safari Bookmark Collections are weird too

As long as we’re talking about weird software behavior, I’ve never understood why Safari has a separate Bookmarks divider here.

If you put bookmarks in places other than the Bookmarks Bar or Menu you can’t access them unless you dive into this bookmark manager window. I can’t think of any reason why you’d want to save [...]

We don’t care what you were doing when it crashed

This dialog box has always annoyed me.

This is the Microsoft error reporting process. A program crashes (in this case, Entourage) and it asks if you’d like to send an error report to Microsoft.

But it doesn’t ask you to comment on the crash at all. You don’t have any opportunity to explain when the crash happened [...]

Microsoft Determined To Make Your Head Explode With Outlook Social Connector

What a horrible fucking idea.

Our vision for Outlook (and the OSC) is to provide a communications hub that is vital to both professional and personal communications; by integrating with both Facebook and MySpace, Outlook 2010 enables you to connect not only to co-workers and colleagues, but with all of your friends and family [...]

Quick Review: Bit Literacy

Bit Literacy is a book about using your computer.

If you’ve ever heard of Bit Literacy you probably don’t need to read Bit Literacy. Did you get here through a feed reader? Then this book is not for you.

Sure, you may benefit from it, but you could skim through pretty quickly if you’re the kind of [...]

Link: Rage Against The Mail Machine; The Genesis of Letters

Ars Technica reports the formation of the letters.app team.

After years of frustration and joking about making a $500 commercial e-mail client for Mac OS X, developer Brent Simmons sounded a call late last week to create an alternate to Apple’s Mail as an open source project. That call has been resoundingly answered by [...]

Smart Playlist: Only The Good Stuff

This is such an obvious smart playlist that I’m upset I didn’t think of it sooner.

The Hulu App’s Active Button States

From Hulu’s desktop application:

Which button is the one that’s selected?

You’d be wrong if you thought the gray one, but you’re not alone if that’s the one that your eye goes towards.