Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Future topics

  • OS X's icons and labels for modifier keys
  • Creating folders in the OS X Finder (what did I mean here?)
  • Rudder pedals on aircraft.  Why is it the opposite of "dance steps"?
  • power windows on an Aston Martin Vantage (sorry, Blade)
  • Auto-correct and word completion on iPhones and Android phones. Why a space after the word?  Why so many word suggestion modes on Android?  Why no sensitivity setting?  
  • Eclipse, Visual Studio, X-code and IDEA (what did I mean when I typed this?)
  • completeness of an interface (set a value, query a value)
  • making Mrs. Meyers's cleaning solution from concentrate
  • reporting gains in stock markets as "points" rather than a % gain/loss
  • Why do we have its and it's?  We do not need "its".  This distinction isn't replicated for any pronoun or proper noun, and complicates phone typing like mad.
  • use of control as a command key in Windows.  Use of \ as a directory separator.
  • Tons/tonnes, long/short, metric/imperial.  Especially as regards ships

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