Membranophonist's Ramblings

Interaction and interface design, technology, politics, music, and random thoughts…

November 30, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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More on Safari click-through

I frequently drag links from browser windows to e-mails and instant messages and am absolutely obsessive about adding cover art to all of my music in iTunes; for these reasons, I would love Safari’s click-through behavior to be changed in …

November 28, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Keychain Access

A few observations and feature suggestions:

  • For encrypted notes and passwords, rather than having only the “Copy Note/Password to Clipboard” button, why not make the icon to the left of the name field function as a proxy icon for drag

November 25, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Browser to iTunes

It should be possible to drag a music file link from a browser window to iTunes to add it to your Library. The iTunes Library window shows the content border highlight that normally indicates that it can accept the dragged …

November 21, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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MacJournal 2.5.1

Let me preface this critique by saying that the developer, Dan Schimpf, has already improved this great application quite a bit since the last major release, giving me good reason to assume the application will continue to improve. None …

November 17, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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DNS entry

For those who prefer domain names, this weblog is accessible through:

http://blog.wilsonet.com

Many thanks to my brother for providing this DNS mapping.…

November 17, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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iPhoto waste removal, misc.

Why does iPhoto have a Trash of its own? Wasn’t one of the arguments for putting the Trash in the Dock that other applications could use it for deleting items? Given that you are manipulating local files (which is not …

November 15, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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911 for 411 (or “Where’s the Info?”)

Apple needs to define and stick to some guideline for where Info windows are accessed through the menu bar. As listed below, the function is rather unpredictably placed in their own applications:

File

  • Finder
  • iPhoto
  • iTunes
  • Backup
  • Terminal

Window

  • iCal

November 14, 2003
by Daniel J. Wilson
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Panther’s User Switching menu

The Panther user switching menu should have three display modes:

  1. The current default of the active user’s full name.
  2. The current user’s login window picture.
  3. The current user’s account name (i.e., jsmith, jdoe).

The first two could be switched between …