Membranophonist's Ramblings

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

November 9, 2003
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iCal, autobiographical blurb

For month and week views, how about a strike-through the text label of events in iCal that have been cancelled? Simple and informative.

I don’t currently have any bright ideas about how to indicate the other states in these two …

November 8, 2003
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Even-t

This application looks promising! My scattered observations:

  1. The Good
    • I like being able to set the priority of events, rather than just To-Do items, as in iCal.
    • The dimmed clock for cancelled events is a nice touch. iCal lacks any

November 7, 2003
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A bold suggestion…

For the next version of iTunes, how about placing the eject controls for mounted items (iPods, CDs) in the collections pane, as seen in the 10.3 Finder. This would save quite a lot of mousing on large screens and allow …

November 5, 2003
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More iCal irritations!

  • Holding option while dragging an event should allow me to duplicate the event – simple and consistent with existing methods. Using the “Duplicate” command in the contextual menu and then dragging is just a less direct way of doing this.

November 4, 2003
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QC @ Apple

There is definitely something wrong with the testing procedures at Apple, as evidenced by:

  1. The 10.2.8 update disabling Ethernet connectivity for certain Dual G4 owners with Gigabit Ethernet.
  2. The audio skipping problem introduced with the 10.2.8 update. Minor, but irritating.

November 3, 2003
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Group where?

The Address Book has contact groups, but they are not universal; groups in the Address Book are not available as groups to iChat AV. Yes, you can pick from existing AB groups, but you cannot pick the groups themselves. Constructing …

November 1, 2003
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Font Panel update

Based on input from mpt, I will change my suggestion for the underline control T icon to match that which I made for the strike-through. Rather than be completely void of a line in the default state, it should …