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28 jan. 2007

@misc@

Long overdue: I’ve finally worked up my pseudo-wiki pages listing my computer setup and the software I use and recommend.

 

@apple@

With Quicksilver, you learn something new every day: if you hold — for just one second — the last letter in the abbreviation you typed, it registers as pressing “Enter” to activate it.

For instance, I have “g” associated to a Google quicksearch, so I can activate Quicksilver, press-hold “g” (for a very brief time, really) and I’ll be ported to the third pane, ready to type my query. Or I can press, “s,” then hold “l,” and my computer will sleep.

What’s really amazing is that the delay to register as “hold” versus “type” is extremely short, and yet it never happened to me by accident — or I would have noticed it. It’s just perfectly timed. (And very imperfectly documented, but that’s not news. It’s part of the program’s charm. Uh, not.)

I’m not going to use it much (because I don’t like click-hold triggers — no matter how fast and well-programmed, I can’t find that more convenient than just pressing an additional key to validate — that’s a personal choice). But I love how, every once in a while, you discover a new Quicksilver functionality to remind you what a nice piece of software it is.

 

@phone@

A video of the Sony Ericsson W950i (sporting 4GB of memory and a touch-screen plus stylus and handwriting recognition). Basically, it’s their iPhone, only with a smaller screen and what looks like a tactile keyboard (yes, worst of both worlds).

I’ve been known to say that Sony Ericsson were the only one so far that could produce usable phone interfaces; it seems like they completely lost it when they got to the touch-screen. Christ, that looks utterly unusable. Nothing makes you want an iPhone more than seeing how wrong the major competitors can get it.

(I haven’t seen videos of the LG almostiPhone, I’ll have to look.)

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