I HATE APPLE

did they just fix Safari finally? I've been using chrome for weeks now.

- Address an issue that could cause webpages to flash white when switching between Safari windows

what is the appeal of safari? chrome/firefox are faster programs ad infinitum

i use safari exclusively

By the way I've actived the swipe gesture to navigate forward and back in the Finer, but it requires THREE fingers, whereas Chrome requires TWO fingers

#firstworldproblems #still

FinDER

Not sure what is up with my typing today

I finally installed Lion and Safari seems way faster.

Also WHO thought autocorrect wa a good idea in a desktop OS? I almost sent out a completely unintelligible email today

(it read something like "should we get rolling on the nob cab arp?")

It's terrible but I imagine a lot of people like it. Probably my favorite new Lion feature is being able to hold down a key to choose an accented version of it.

Didn't realize you could do that, how do you select the accent from the options displayed?

(I use that all time on iPhone, but there it's obvious. Also I'm on my phone now so I can't test.)

Each one has a little number above it; hit the number

(Years ago I used to know all of the windows keyboard "shortcuts" for accents—alt-0236 etc. terrible.)

I know! And Macs haven't been much better. What was it for an é, Option 3 and then E? Ridiculous.

its just option-e and then e

Ya, not as bad as windows but not great. Still better than trying to type in English on a French keyboard tho

I don't knoz zhmt you qean

Oh I'm thinking of how to type a hash symbol with an English keyboard, option-3, which is fucking stupid

Guy maybe we should start a blog where we write about how Apple can improve its products

option-3 on an english (american) keyboard is the pound sign, hash is shift-3

safari doesn't crash all the time like firefox does, for me (ff is seriously completely fucked, if I leave it up for more than an hour it starts eating up all my CPU time). Chrome does too sometimes, I think it's all flash related though.

the "starts eating all CPU time" thing sounds like the Flash plugin

haha, i just tried to type "AYOOOOOOOOOOO" in a chat window and i got the accent-picker

ok i turned off spelling autocorrect but it is still autocorrecting some things? like "reso" turned into "redo"? maybe this is a setting in mail specifically i have to turn off?

(yes)

option-3 on an english (american) keyboard is the pound sign, hash is shift-3

― max, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:44 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah this is reversed in England, which has a logic to it, but c'mon the hash symbol is too common a character these days to be hidden behind a control key like that #fml

the uk apple keyboard is the worst thing steve jobs ever did

OK, I just had to look that up and it's hilarious weird. Does the UK need all that Northern European stuff?

anglo-saxon keyboard

what northern european stuff?

the main problems are the 3#£ issue and skinny return key

Oh, never mind, I was looking at what purported to be the full-size UK layout and I think it was not.

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC184B/B?fnode=MTY1NDA1Mg

Is this the badness? That lolinverted enter key is hateful.

ja that's it. i do like the tilde key on them but otherwise they are pretty bad.

did everyone switch back from reverse-scrolling? i'm 'trying it out'

i just checked, and my "scroll direction" is set to "natural"

using a magic trackpad

what is natural

the heady rush of young love

what is unnatural

Hate natural scrolling. Maybe it would feel natural if I hadn't been using computers for 20+ years, but I have so it's frustrating as hell

xp: Ugg boots

natural is win

don't have a strong preference, but i got used to natural very quickly

what is supernatural

the heady rush of seance love

are ghosts real

they live in the hearts of the innocent

what is innocence

innocence is an iMac

omg i'm on one right now

fuck imessage

?

flatmate sent "come to the pub" message yesterday, her phone claims it was sent, i haven't seen it yet. this happens all the time.