(Years ago I used to know all of the windows keyboard "shortcuts" for accents—alt-0236 etc. terrible.)
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:27 (fourteen years ago)
I know! And Macs haven't been much better. What was it for an é, Option 3 and then E? Ridiculous.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:29 (fourteen years ago)
its just option-e and then e
― max, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:31 (fourteen years ago)
Ya, not as bad as windows but not great. Still better than trying to type in English on a French keyboard tho
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:32 (fourteen years ago)
I don't knoz zhmt you qean
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:35 (fourteen years ago)
Oh I'm thinking of how to type a hash symbol with an English keyboard, option-3, which is fucking stupid
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:36 (fourteen years ago)
Guy maybe we should start a blog where we write about how Apple can improve its products
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:37 (fourteen years ago)
option-3 on an english (american) keyboard is the pound sign, hash is shift-3
― max, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 16:44 (fourteen years ago)
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.
― akm, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:19 (fourteen years ago)
the "starts eating all CPU time" thing sounds like the Flash plugin
― mh, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:25 (fourteen years ago)
haha, i just tried to type "AYOOOOOOOOOOO" in a chat window and i got the accent-picker
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:58 (fourteen years ago)
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?
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:03 (fourteen years ago)
(yes)
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:04 (fourteen years ago)
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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
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:06 (fourteen years ago)
the uk apple keyboard is the worst thing steve jobs ever did
― caek, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:11 (fourteen years ago)
OK, I just had to look that up and it's hilarious weird. Does the UK need all that Northern European stuff?
― mh, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:16 (fourteen years ago)
anglo-saxon keyboard
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:17 (fourteen years ago)
what northern european stuff?
the main problems are the 3#£ issue and skinny return key
― caek, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:19 (fourteen years ago)
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.
― mh, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:49 (fourteen years ago)
ja that's it. i do like the tilde key on them but otherwise they are pretty bad.
― caek, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 18:57 (fourteen years ago)
did everyone switch back from reverse-scrolling? i'm 'trying it out'
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 20:48 (fourteen years ago)
i just checked, and my "scroll direction" is set to "natural"
using a magic trackpad
― markers, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 20:52 (fourteen years ago)
what is natural
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 20:56 (fourteen years ago)
the heady rush of young love
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 20:56 (fourteen years ago)
what is unnatural
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 20:57 (fourteen years ago)
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
― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 20:57 (fourteen years ago)
xp: Ugg boots
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 20:58 (fourteen years ago)
natural is win
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 20:59 (fourteen years ago)
don't have a strong preference, but i got used to natural very quickly
― caek, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 21:00 (fourteen years ago)
what is supernatural
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 21:01 (fourteen years ago)
the heady rush of seance love
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 21:05 (fourteen years ago)
are ghosts real
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 21:14 (fourteen years ago)
they live in the hearts of the innocent
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 21:19 (fourteen years ago)
what is innocence
― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 21:26 (fourteen years ago)
innocence is an iMac
― thuggish ruggish Brahms (DJP), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 21:29 (fourteen years ago)
omg i'm on one right now
― markers, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 21:31 (fourteen years ago)
fuck imessage
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Saturday, 14 April 2012 09:41 (fourteen years ago)
?
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 14 April 2012 10:55 (fourteen years ago)
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.
― Touché Gödel (ledge), Saturday, 14 April 2012 13:11 (fourteen years ago)
I texted you a couple of times too, come to think of it.
― stet, Saturday, 14 April 2012 13:34 (fourteen years ago)
dude where are you dinner is on the table
― catbus otm (gbx), Saturday, 14 April 2012 21:38 (fourteen years ago)
This happens to me too. I have had a night long fight started by it, in fact.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Saturday, 14 April 2012 23:17 (fourteen years ago)
exit relationship stat
― fine with 49 (sunny successor), Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:13 (fourteen years ago)
where is a serious macbook pro which really aims ssd and 15" retina
― the late great, Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:38 (fourteen years ago)
^^ this man has good ideas
― mh, Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:46 (fourteen years ago)
agreed, tho gimme 13" and i'm cool
guessing most osx apps can't render on a retina display, though?
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:50 (fourteen years ago)
i heard something to the effect that they've built a hi-res mode into lion that just renders w/ 4x as much pixel area, so that things end up at the same relative size
but my understanding of how computer graphics and monitors work is really really weak so maybe i've got that wrong
― the late great, Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:54 (fourteen years ago)
i mean mountain lion
― the late great, Thursday, 26 April 2012 16:55 (fourteen years ago)
like can't they just build something in to render each pixel as four pixels?
― the late great, Thursday, 26 April 2012 17:00 (fourteen years ago)
probably? i dunno, i'm p ignorant of this stuff, too
― catbus otm (gbx), Thursday, 26 April 2012 17:02 (fourteen years ago)