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Gmail: Arrow of Mystery and Subject LineMar-5-06, 3:01 pm by Hanford | Read full postFile under: gmail, User Interface, Google, Yahoo, Mail, Bad User Interface 
Gmail has some UI problems. Recently I blogged a bit about the bugs in Yahoo Mail Beta and in that entry I said that even with it's slowness, Yahoo Mail Beta is still better than Gmail. A few people have chimed in to let me know their own thoughts, and one poster took issue with my Yahoo vs. Gmail comment: your right about one thing: its antaganizingly slow. horribly slow. I admit that Gmail does have Yahoo Mail Beta beat in the speed department. But I still feel that Yahoo Mail Beta is better than gmail. Continued Photoshop: Solving the keyboard-shortcut issueMar-2-06, 2:01 pm by Hanford | Read full postFile under: Adobe, Macromedia, Photoshop  Photoshop has long-ago run out of legit keyboard shortcuts for new commands. But if Adobe wanted to get serious about solving the issue, there's a lot of illegitimate ones they could use.
Space ModifierModifier keys are the keys you hold down before pressing another key to trigger a two-key shortcut. These keys traditionally are SHIFT, CTRL, and ALT.My solution is to turn the spacebar into a modifier key. So, in the same way you can hit CTRL+T for Free Transform, you could hit SPACE+T for Transform Selection (or whatever you assigned it). Just think of the Spacebar as a really long shift key. Adding this opens up a whole new set of two-key shortcuts, and it doesn't break any existing shortcut. Continued Alias Sketchbook ProFeb-27-06, 1:49 am by Hanford | Read full postFile under: Sketchbook Pro, Adobe, User Interface, Video games, Photoshop 
I have had Alias Sketchbook Pro ever since I got my first Tablet PC, a few years ago. I've been a fan of it from day one, but I never really used it because I didn't have a project that required freehanding. However, I have a new game in the works, and I gone back to paper to get the creative juices flowing. This weekend I started using Sketchbook Pro for coloring and I just have to say that it is amazing. The program has a great feel unlike any other, and the UI is inspired. Continued New Director/Shockwave update comingFeb-23-06, 3:16 pm by Hanford | Read full postFile under: Lingo, Shockwave, Adobe, Director, Macromedia Tom Higgins from Adobe (formerly Macromedia) has announced a free update to Director and Shockwave, including Flash 8 support, Quicktime fixes, and a new "covert" command that will allow us Director developers to leverage Flash 8's new effects like Blur and glow. Amazing! Even though I rarely use Flash, I am looking forward to this. Thanks for announcing it, Tom! Boing Boing jumped the sharkFeb-14-06, 8:19 pm by Hanford | Read full postFile under: Misc. Boing Boing is posting links to warez sites? Oh come on. Robots & DonutsFeb-11-06, 6:50 pm by Hanford | Read full postFile under: Video games  Steve over at The Sneeze blogged about my award-winning puzzle/logic game, Rocknor's Donut Factory. Thanks Steve, You're the best. iPod: The crappiest volume control in the worldFeb-2-06, 12:23 pm by Hanford | Read full postFile under: Mp3, Bad User Interface I just read about a lawsuit filed against Apple stating that the iPod can damage your hearing and that Apple has not done enough to protect against it. I kinda agree. But not for the reasons stated in the article. The iPod has the crappiest volume control in the world. When you're in a menu, you can't change the volume. So, if a quiet song ends and a loud song starts, you get a blast of loud sound in your skull. you can pause it, or rip the ear buds out of your ears, but my contention is reaching for that non-existant volume control would be my impulse reaction. I sure hope that comes up during the lawsuit. It's silly to not have a volume knob on the iPod. Yahoo Mail Beta: driving me buggyFeb-2-06, 1:01 am by Hanford | Read full postFile under: Google, Yahoo, AJAX, Mail, Bad User Interface  I've been using Yahoo Mail Beta for the last month or so, and it's really starting to drive me buggy.
When I first started using it, I was quite impressed. It featured drag-and-drop folder operations, multiple tabs, and more. But a recenty a few aspects about it have really been bothering me. Continued Macromedia Director MX04: Great looking Image Scaling CodeJan-26-06, 2:15 am by Hanford | Read full postFile under: Lingo, Shockwave, Adobe, Director, Macromedia Recently I wrote about looking for a better way to scale images in Director. Well, Josh Chunick came to my rescue on Direct-L (actually Robotduck posted Josh's code, but Josh posted about it shortly after). Continued Scaling images in Macromedia Director MX04Jan-20-06, 2:16 am by Hanford | Read full postFile under: Shockwave, Adobe, Director, Macromedia I'm looking for a method to scale images down in Director that provides better quality than CopyPixels or sprite scaling. Here's an original:  Continued  |
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