Assuming that isnt blatant spam. Youd be much better off getting people to send feedback to apple DIRECTLY.
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Assuming that isnt blatant spam. Youd be much better off getting people to send feedback to apple DIRECTLY.
i thinks a nice innovative way to vote for features, i saw someone post it n liked the idea, jus merely using my freedom of speech. Sending feedback to apple can be lengthy process, if u dont like it u dont have to use it
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It is a nice way indeed but it needs to catch up and attract people otherwise it wont serve its purpose. There's a fixtheiphone website with an almost identical interface and scope. Hope it catches on, it's great way to push for positive change. Nt1440 is right in that in most cases you'd be better off sending feedback to apple, the site you posted has the added purpose of publicizing these annoyances so apple can't hide behind their finger.
No problemo sir.
It is a nice way indeed but it needs to catch up and attract people otherwise it wont serve its purpose. There's a fixtheiphone website with an almost identical interface and scope. Hope it catches on, it's great way to push for positive change. Nt1440 is right in that in most cases you'd be better off sending feedback to apple, the site you posted has the added purpose of publicizing these annoyances so apple can't hide behind their finger.
No problemo sir.
Ah, well seeing as you didnt make it yourself, i dont think its spam. Srry if I offended you.i thinks a nice innovative way to vote for features, i saw someone post it n liked the idea, jus merely using my freedom of speech. Sending feedback to apple can be lengthy process, if u dont like it u dont have to use it
Just so you know the apple feedback process isnt even close to cumbersome.
Just to put my vote in, I think copying files via cut-and-paste is dumb. Also, not all UNIX is KDE and Gnome, not all window managers provide this.
No right clicking, and scrolling is possible via the up and down buttons now. So it is scrolling but the mouse scrolling not working... yet.
I agree with you, it would be nice if apple could add a simular feature as some peole come up with ideas you may not have thought of, if the site becomes popular theres a cahnce employees at apple may take notice, the more we talk about the things we want the better chance we have at getting them
No worries none taken, i have used apples feedback i just like the new approach the website took, its nice to see a different approach to giving feedback
Stacks: Scrollable, Deeper Folder Navigation
System Preferences: Services Management, Keyboard Shortcuts, , Text Management (look like they are adding the textexpender feature as well as automatic spell correction)
Finder: Item View Size Button in all Finders window now
System-Wide Context Menu "Accelerators" (Sticky, Mail Options)
There are many more improvements that is going on in Snow leopard including major updates to all unix commands and framework. (I saw python2.6, python3.0 and perl5.10 included by default in SL)
Don't forget the potential "marble" UI update (which could end up being VERY sexy). IF thats in there, its gonna make alot of average joes upgrade (combined with those other things). Remember, everyone loves some new eye candy.
I didn't add Marble because it is not confirmed and is not in the current seed.
All of those features I talked about is confirmed by the current seed.
Ah good point
I still stand by my post, hoping for marble (tho im going SL regardless)
It's 2009, can we get "Print Selection" in Snow Leopard for crying out loud!
Whats that?
Whats that?
You must be kidding!?
Windows has had this feature forever, where you select text and the print dialog gives you the option to only print the selected text. This is very handy when you only want a portion of a document, webpage or email printed.
You must be kidding!?
Windows has had this feature forever, where you select text and the print dialog gives you the option to only print the selected text. This is very handy when you only want a portion of a document, webpage or email printed.
To be honest, that's one feature I've never had to use... I rarely used it on windows, and it's hardly that much of an inconvenience on mac...
Although it would be nice if it was included, but it's hardly desperate...
I'm kidding because I've never had to use something? Did that really warrant an eyeroll?You must be kidding!?
Windows has had this feature forever, where you select text and the print dialog gives you the option to only print the selected text. This is very handy when you only want a portion of a document, webpage or email printed.
I had no idea this exsisted, and have never had to use it. Hell I didnt even know what cut & paste was until I saw the countless posts here whining about it...
Metadata, simply put, is information about a file. It may or may not be important to the application that's using it, but it often has meaning to the user. For example, the photos in your iPhoto library (unless it's full of images you saved from web pages) all "know" what model of camera took them, because that info is part of their metadata. iPhoto might not give a (insert expletive of choice) about what camera you used, but it might help you decide which of your two cameras takes better pictures.
A more general example of metadata is tagging, which just means associating keywords with something. Leap is a sort of alternative file browser which, instead of exposing the traditional folder hierarchy to the user, organizes and displays files by their tags, which get inserted behind-the-scenes into the Spotlight comments. While, at first, such a radical departure from the structured world of folders might make traditional users like us gasp in horror, it eventually becomes clear that tags will allow us to find files based on what they mean to us. The computer couldn't care less about what tags we assign to a file, but the computer's just there to serve us anyways.
This is what i intended to convey or meant, but you put it in nicer words
thank you anyway.OK i see how important this is or at least could be for further programs, but someone said that "cover-flow in finder" uses metadata... i don't see what kind of meta data coverflow should use?!
Of course it displays a "preview" image, but in most cases it's just not more than a picture or pdf file..
This is what i intended to convey or meant, but you put it in nicer words
OK i see how important this is or at least could be for further programs, but someone said that "cover-flow in finder" uses metadata... i don't see what kind of meta data coverflow should use?!
Of course it displays a "preview" image, but in most cases it's just not more than a picture or pdf file..
No prob!
I'm not sure what they meant by that either. Finder's Cover Flow view is more or less just a straightforward, alphabetical list of files and folders, presented in visual form, with interactive previews where applicable. It'd be cool to see it (or something Core-Animationy like it) used for more fluid, metadata-based file browsing, but then I'm not sure that sort of thing would be practical enough to make it into the Finder itself...at least not until years from now when people are more comfortable managing stuff by tags.
kermitspicnic said:
do you mean like you can press the battery indicator with your macbook open and it will give you your time, mail, ichat, battery, and other sniplets of info for a second before going back to sleep? i could go for that, especially when walking between classes!
This is what i intended to convey or meant, but you put it in nicer words
OK i see how important this is or at least could be for further programs, but someone said that "cover-flow in finder" uses metadata... i don't see what kind of meta data coverflow should use?!
Of course it displays a "preview" image, but in most cases it's just not more than a picture or pdf file..
I didn't say anything about Cover Flow using metadata, though QuickLook previews for several file types illustrate how that might be done. What I was saying was that as users begin to access files based on contents rather than folder hierarchies and filenames, alternative means of previewing files will become necessary. Simple icons and lists are becoming less useful as we depend more and more on metadata. Even Windows 7 is organizing documents differently with its "libraries". I suspect Snow Leopard and its rewritten Finder will bring at least something new to the ways we can organize files, if only an expansion to the current implementation of Saved Searches. I don't expect that many users know this functionality exists, much less make use of it.
BTW: Most users are accustomed to organizing files based on metadata, it's just normally done inside iPhoto, iTunes, iMovie, etc. I don't think Cover Flow is the whole solution, it's just one mode for viewing. I just pray that we never see folder types like those in Windows.
i'd still love a totally black Mac OS. white/light gray is ugly, causes eyestrain and wastes more energy
I won't go into the truthiness of your assertion re. energy use, but if you get sick of looking at a white screen, may I recommend:
cmd option ctrl 8
mind you it will make images appear a bit trippy, but I guess that's the price you have to pay