April 14th, 2007 by Daniel J. Wilson
I want to add contact information for a person I’ve come across to my address book.
Select
Drag and Drop
Review and/or Save
The same steps would work for event text blocks dragged to calendar applications.
How would this magic happen? Bring back Apple Data Detectors!
I’m fully aware of microformats and have mocked up of how they could be used [...]
April 2nd, 2007 by Daniel J. Wilson
Somewhere between 7.0 and the current 7.1.1 release, left and right arrow key navigation of the iTunes browser columns (Genre, Artist, Album) was added. Much better.
April 1st, 2007 by Daniel J. Wilson
A few comments for Many Tricks’ yFlicks, a video player and organizer for Mac OS X.
A first-launch-only prompt to import the user’s movies (searching based on UTIs or whatever magic is required) and perhaps user-selectable locations would help them immerse themselves in the application. Creating groups from folders might help them orient themselves by carrying [...]
April 1st, 2007 by Daniel J. Wilson
Logging in to a Mac OS X user account while holding the Shift key prevents Login Items from launching. Similarly, launching OmniWeb with Shift depressed creates a new empty workspace rather than restoring your last browsing session (if so configured). I find this very helpful when I want to switch to a workspace other than [...]