Ah yes, diagnosing machines in the service centre…
One helpful colleague decided a hilarious thing to do would be to put 4 keys from a keyboard on the machine that I was working on, 4 letters that spelled the word “tool”. Yes. Indeed.Other issues that I can’t live with day to day? How do I copy text from non-editable field like an email, webpage, or SMS, or even a 3rd party application? Oh, I can’t. Say what you want about the iPhone not having copy and paste for two years — a joke — it’s the single best implementation on the planet for a smartphone and Google’s approach is almost as bad as RIM’s with the Storm-series.
Byline is an RSS reader for iPhone that ties into Google Reader for that awesome syncing goodness we all know and love. While it’s pretty good, there’s probably one other app that blows it out of the water (namely, Reeder).
Not quite sure what went wrong in the above pic, but at least it’s good that the developers actually coded in support for when things don’t go as planned – lesser apps would stop responding, freeze, or even worse, just crash. Sure, it would have been better had it given an actual error code/ message, but it’s particularly impressive that they’ve managed to build in some sort of reporting tool to send reports off. Kudos to all the iPhone developers out there who do the same – I may not have come across the same thing in your app, but that’s probably a good thing 🙂
There’s a feature on the iPhone that allows it to identify numbers that can be dialled, added to existing contacts, created with a new contact, and so on. The official term in OSX is “data detectors”, which allow applications such as Mail/iCal/Address Book to, like the namesake suggests, detect data and work with it as appropriate.
Anyway, I mainly lurk on the OverClockers AUstralia forums, or OCAU. There’s a trading section on there, and this one particular chap was selling a 430W OEM PSU. I’m not entirely sure why I was looking at this particular item as I already have a 460W PSU, but I was, and I found it nothing short of hilarious that my iPhone detected that the part description as an actual phone number, where the letters combine to form numbers. This whole thing might have had something to do with the fact that I had to patch support for the 4-3-3 grouping of mobile numbers into the phone itself, as a previous iPhone OS version tempoarily broke such functionality – area codes especially would break the Phone display of such numbers. No matter, though – recent iPhone OS versions have thoroughly restored functionality to the number groupings of both landline and mobile numbers. And that’s that.
…and I didn’t tell Tweetie about it.
What resulted was the screenshot above – Tweetie said it couldn’t find my profile, which was fair enough. I updated my account details in Tweetie, refreshed, and that was that. Not quite sure why I took a screenshot of it, though.…well, that didn’t go as planned.
What happened yesterday was completely different to what I actually thought (or had planned) to happen. My original, original plan was to move as much freshbytes stuff over to here as possible, but then I decided to use my time more wisely and play Dragon Age: Origins instead. 😀
If only that had been what actually transpired.
You see, I have this file system scheme with my Windows machine where as much as possible is moved off the OS drive. As I format my machines regularly, it just makes sense to dedicate a hard drive to Windows, and have two 1TB drives for storage – one for installed programs (okay, just Steam) and another for all my media, legally acquired or otherwise.
The way that it worked before I decided to play with it was that my User folder was on my OS drive, but the Documents, Videos and Pictures folders underneath that were moved to the Program drive. Truth be told, there’s nothing wrong with this setup.
However, I must make a special mention to those developers who think a special hidden folder in my User folder is an excellent place to store save games and other important info. Usually games store their save information, profiles etc, in either their own program folder, or under the Documents folder, or even under the My Games folder in the Documents folder. Such is the case with games like Dragon Age, BioShock, TrackMania, Rainbow 6 Vegas (1 and 2), and so on. There are certain games, however, that decide the hidden folder AppData is an excellent place to store this information instead, and without naming names, we’ll just say that a certain indie physics puzzler inolving Goo and a recent driving arcade game involving Paradise are the main culprits here.