This is a minor annoyance, but why is it that software developers feel the need to turn off the OS X Finder Toolbar when they package their disk images.
I mean, the new version of Firefox pictorially describes where you should drag the application. The thing is, if they had left the toolbar where I set it, the applications folder would be about an inch drag away.
Instead, I must a) open a new finder window, b) option-command-T the toolbar back into existence, or c) hot-pop folders until my hand hurts.
I know the folder image you’ve hidden on the .dmg looks prettier when it’s in a naked finder window, but I keep many handy things in that toolbar, not the least of which is THE APPLICATIONS FOLDER, which is where YOU’VE TOLD ME to drag the icon. Bad user interface, bad.
Bear with me, this article ended up being a little longer than I intended. Here’s a summary: Television sucks, but some shows are worth the trouble, so I am now downloading them instead of taping the broadcast.
Television is so many things to so many people. For many, it’s simply a way to wind down the mind after a long day’s work. For others, it’s another world that they can enter from 52 different directions. These are the people that know each network’s primetime lineup and will readily recommend their favorite selections from it. They are the television junkies. For yet others, television is a vice that they believe is beneath them. Those are the people that say they don’t have cable because of their high moral quality.
Me, I fall somewhere in between all of those. I don’t know the primetime lineups. I don’t know much about network or cable television inner workings, other than the junk I run in the paper every day. I like to be entertained as much as the next guy. But all entertainment should also be art. And much of what is on television could not be called art.
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Yeah, wow, so the design that was up for the last few hours wasn’t ready for wide release yet. Not sure how that happened.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
You know you’re in a yuppie grocery store when the Big Football Display Endcap is advertising wine.
I’ve been falling behind on writing about movies I’ve seen, which is one of my favorite things to do with this place. So I’ll sum up in one paragraph (or less) my reviews for each movie.
“Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit” (2005)
The second of two animated features I’ve been looking forward to in this quarter, after Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, was the feature-length debut of Wallace & Gromit. I enjoyed the short films they starred in before and I loved director Nick Park’s homage to the Great Escape, Chicken Run. So give me an hour and a half of W&G and I’m pretty happy. For some reason these clay characters come to life in a way that their computer-animated equivalent’s just can’t seem to do. The story is solid, the characters are lovable and the animation is expert.
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