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why not just set it to always open link in new tab?

I have a logitech mouse with buttons mapped to expose and spaces. I would hate to lose that.

Hot Corners for Exepose and Spaces. Right-click set-up in system settings for open-in-new-tab. Easy.

why not just set it to always open link in new tab?

― cutty, Monday, October 26, 2009 5:14 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

because sometimes you want to open a link in a new tab but a lot of the time you don't.

p.s. no reason why the magic mouse can't support as many buttons as our crude phalanges can manage. i assume "button 3" will be configurable in software, if not now then with a later release.

open in new tab is not actually the only thing i use the middle button for (lol X11), but i appreciate it's the only one used by a fraction of users large enough to consider when designing software. it doesn't need a special hardware button (especially one that never fucking works, e.g. mighty mouse), so i am totally fine with the direction apple have gone, provided middle click is eventually supported in software.

i hope they don't go back to tilting at windmills with this 1 button fetish, but i worry now that the big guy has his new liver they may be energised to do this.

mice should have five buttons and keyboards should be gotten rid of as soon as possible. if louis armstrong can play all those notes with just three keys we should be able to write "lol, the quick fox haz cheezburger" with five surely.

http://www.gottabemobile.com/blogimages/GBMFrogPadUserReview_B05A/frogpad112.jpg

upgrading to snow leopard did mess up vmware fusion for me, but all I had to do was update vmware fusion from their site, they released a patch. if you are worrieda bout the 'authenticity' of your copy of vmware fusion or something, don't be, it did not seem to be an issue.

co-sign

Right-click set-up in system settings for open-in-new-tab. Easy.
can you actually do this? Cos in the magic mouse pref pane it looks like you can't. and how would you do the other right-click stuff, like web inspector?

I love this mouse.

Apple announced today that it has developed a breast implant that can store and play music. The iTit will cost from $499 to $699, depending on cup and speaker size. This is considered a major social breakthrough, because women are always complaining about men staring at their breasts and not listening to them.

thanks for forwarding that dad

I can't be bothered to find the thread of dafari or apple hate but is safari crashing lots for anyone else? It's locking up for minutes when I open new tabs, although a little better when I removed some flash heavy sites from the grid and flash or the whole app is crashing out fairly frequently.

I had the locking up thing something rotten, but I switched to the WebKit nightlies and they're way better. (The new web inspector is brilliant, too)

you are not wrong there, its night and day.

Safari's been rock-solid for me ever since I installed ClickToFlash.

yup

Safari's been rock-solid for me ever since I installed ClickToFlash.

Truth there.

ClickToFlash = best thing ever.

though, ClickToFlash is such a good thing because Adobe's implementation of Flash on OS X is crap, right?

it's not crap, per se, but it's definitely a bit weak compared to the windows version

I think it might actually be crap, tho. In the jump to v10 they crowed about making it faster when what they'd done was take some breathtakingly stupid code.

I mean if you can't play a video 320px wide on a dual core system without taking 40% of CPU and sending the fans nuts, something's wrong.

(apparently the Flash plugin they built for iPhone resulted in 30 min battery life. Wtg, adobe)

Take stupid code *out* that should have been

I think it is actually crap per se.

I have a four-year-old Dell X1 Latitude - i.e. a tiny underpowered netbook - that plays live streaming Flash with NexDef (an HD plugin) flawlessly. Whereas my Powerbook G4 struggles even to play the low-def version of the exact same stream.

Yes yes, "time to get a new computer", fuck you.

It is the worst, and the sooner this becomes practical and we can all uninstall it the better

Been talking a lot recently about how much Adobe sucks. I installed CS4 so I could play with the more advanced preflight features of IDCS4 and it's just a mess. I knew a few years ago when Adobe introduced their own open and save dialogue boxes (use OSX instead!) that they were going down a wrong path. Maybe they care more about the PC market right now, but they have this idea of inventing their own interface and combining the entire suite into 1 unified window which just adds even more menu bars and more confusion.

it's a cocktail of shit: they use Flash for all the new panels.

http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/237227166/slide-different

yeah, and that pointed me to:

http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/

They've certainly come a long way from where they were a decade ago, when their interfaces were a model of consistency.

ClickToFlash = best thing ever.

I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for making me aware of ClickToFlash's existence

About to upgrade to CS4, you guys are scaring me

Either don't bother, or keep both around. I have both but am still using CS3.

Good luck with CS4 here, but I'm mainly using InDesign

photoshop cs4 has been okay for me. dreamweaver cs4 (which I have to use for some clients who insist on using contribute and shit) is fucking awful, the thing crashes all the time.

Always avoided Dreamweaver, the interface was just too complex. I'm using Coda which is great, even though there are some simple things I should be able to do (sort remote folders by date modified, code folding) that I can't yet do.

which I have to use for some clients who insist on using contribute and shit

i imagine you mean shit, literally, shit on the websites you are making, because i cant imagine a scenario where a client wanting to contribute through dreamweaver would be a positive experience for you in any way

from http://bonfx.com/15-top-graphic-design-limericks-for-your-amusement/

A program called Photo the Shopper
Was loaded with menus and slopper
“Just raise the price
to make naughty nice”
But users soon proved this a flopper.

Adobe the Great was a giant
To whom all it’s slaves was defiant:
“While charging more price,
I’ll make things less nice!”
And to this day all are compliant.

In Dreamweaver there was a bug,
But Adobe was silently smug.
“Pretend it’s not there!”
Said support with no care,
And swept the bug under the rug!

etc

Adobe the Great was a giant
To whom all it’s slaves was defiant:

grammar glands throbbing

question for Applehedz:

As a PC-person looking to pick up a Mac to do more music nonsense, what would you recommend I look at and how much should I budget for it? (Assume I'm running something equivalent to Reason and that I am hoping to attach a MIDI keyboard to it.)

13-inch macbook pro is very portable, has firewire, is awesome.. if your budget can handle it and you won't be moving it around you might consider a real-daddy mac pro tower which has throughput and customization up the wazoo

What type of budget are we talking here? I could MAYBE do $2500 but $5K is gonna be a nonstarter.

Mac Pro starts at $2500, and I'd add RAM and a bigger/additional HD if you're going to blow it out that much. If it doesn't need to be a portable machine, the 27" quad-core iMac looks really nice for $2K. 4GB RAM, 1TB HD.

protip: keep checking the refurb section of the online store for good deals. apple refurbs are handchecked by apple and almost always come in like new condition

You don't really need the power/expandability of a Mac Pro to do music nonsense, an iMac will probably do the job, as long as you can get a big enough HD and upgrade the RAM

yeah a mac pro is waaaaaay overkill. if you've got a display, just max a mini

my Mac Pro is AWESOME. Talk about overkill, I just bought 1 more hard-drive then actually fits.

I'm using Coda which is great, even though there are some simple things I should be able to do (sort remote folders by date modified, code folding) that I can't yet do.

I'm a pretty heavy Coda user and all rumors (and by this I mean chatter on the Coda discussion list) point to Coda 2 having both of these.

I don't know what I'm doing. I had 3 hard drives. 300 gig drive with system and applications, 500 gig drive with all my data (300 gigs of which is my iTunes library) and a 1 TB drive for Time Machine.

I bought 2 500 gig drives real cheap thinking I had one more bay than I do. The plan was to have 1 500 gig to make nightly clones of my system/apps drive for a rock solid easy way to boot if my main system disk goes, then take the other 500 gig drive and put my music collection on it, so I'd have 1 500 gig for "data" and another for my iTunes library, and both of those would back up to my 1 TB Time Machine.

Now I can only put one more 500 gig drive in, which means I'll have the 300 gig system, 500 gig files and 500 gig iTunes library, and that's obviously more then 1 TB. Of course my plan is to never fill those drives. Will this make Time Machine explode? Should I return the extra 500 gig and upgrade my 1 TB to a 2 TB? Should I get one of those cheap SATA docks and clone my system disk to that?

Part of why I was doing this is because the initial 500 gig drive is getting filled up, but also because I heard it can be a pain to start up again after a crash with only Time Machine and that's why people still use Super Duper, but the more I read about it, it sounds like no big deal.

after using Time Machine I don't really have any desire to go back to Super Duper...but I've never had to restore off a Time Machine backup, whereas with it's been super easy to swap disks with Super Duper