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Das Setup – Nerds im Interview

Posted by Hans Dorsch in Marginalia on February 23rd, 2010

Eine wunderschöne Idee, die admartinator alias Martin Sauer hier umgesetzt hat:

Das Setup (http://www.admartinator.de/setup/): Inspiriert von The Setup (http://usesthis.com/) philosophieren hier einige Nerds über die Verwendung ihrer liebsten Hard- und Software.

Schön, das ich auch dabei sein darf: http://www.admartinator.de/setup/hans-dorsch/.

Als nächstes wünsche ich mir, das Setup von Leo von http://fscklog.com zu sehen.

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Hi la ri ous! A conversation I have every month or so

Posted by Hans Dorsch in Marginalia on February 18th, 2010

Me: (tries to visit a local restaurant’s website via iPhone)
Restaurant website: I require Flash. Fuck off.
Me: I just want to know how late you’re open.
Website: Nope.
Me: But I’m on my phone. Don’t you have a little “HTML Version” link up in the corner or something?
Website: I’m ignoring you.
Me: What if I’m on my phone because I’m out, looking for a place to eat? Didn’t that ever occur to you?
Website: Fuck entirely off.
Me: (gives up, switches to computer)
Website: Oh! Hi! What can I help you with today?
Me: What are your —
Website: Hang on, I’m loading the music.
Me: Really.
Website: You’ll love it. It’s “Girl from Ipanema” arranged for steel drum and keytar.
Me: No, you don’t have to —
Website: Loading…
Me: All I want is —
Website: I SAID DOT DOT DOT.
Me: (drums fingers on desk)
Website: There we go. Isn’t that nice? It’s… what’s the word. Ethnicky.
Me: What are your hours?
Website: Take a look at our menu! It’s a PDF of a screenshot of a scan of a Word document printed on a dishtowel. With fonts!
Me: I don’t care. What are your hours?
Website: Don’t worry, the menu loads in a new window so the music won’t stop. Can I show you some broken images?
Me: What. Are. Your. Hou. Rs.
Website: I… I don’t know.
Me: (goes to Denny’s)

via venomousporridge.com

Oh yes, this is exactly what happens, when you are visiting restaurant sites. Only hotels are worse.

The reason is, that ALL restaurant and hotel owners have friends, that are flash designers.

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Apple, please fix this

Posted by Hans Dorsch in Marginalia on February 18th, 2010

Apples Produkte sind größtenteils toll. Aber manches nervt einfach. Statt das einfach hinzunehmen, kann man sich auch drei Minuten Zeit nehmen, und Apple das sagen.
Apple hat dazu eine wunderschöne Feedbackseite. Sie erreichen sie unter http://www.apple.com/feedback/. Leider nur auf Englisch. Aber ich denke, Sie können da auch in deutscher Sprache reinschreiben. Es wird doch jemanden geben, der das übersetzen kann.

Ich habe mich eben über die Notizfunktionen in Vorschau (Preview) unter Snow Leopard beschwert.

The Annotation features in Leopard worked well. There were Icons in the Toolbar that showed Notes or Drawing Tools. If an Icon was active, you saw it.

If you click “Annotate” in Preview.app in Snow Leopard, apparently nothing happens. The Feedback is too subtle. It took me a long time to recognize the tiny toolbar that appeared at the foot of the Window.

The Point of Action (click the icon) and the feedback (Toolbar appears) are just too far apart.

It’s hard to recognize on a 13″ MacBook but the larger the screen gets, the harder it gets. it gets worse, the larger the screen gets.
Could you please fix this? Maybe an Inspector window would work. I am sure, you’ll find a way.

Thanks in advance

Hans

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