Apple: Dual-Link fail; Store product review fail.
25 June 2009 - Permanent link
At our company almost everyone uses a MacBook Pro with a 30" Dell monitor. We all frequently have the DVI distortion issues that Gizmodo reported. (I've had my display fritz out twice in the past hour, for example.) Apple has been totally unhelpful and basically refuse to admit that they have a problem. Perhaps they're afraid of another product recall or class action lawsuit? And thus are not doing the best customer support thing, which is: acknowledge the problem, apologize, and promise a fix as soon as it's available. Anyway, I wanted to leave a review on the product page...
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Dear Pandora: Popup FAIL
6 May 2009 - Permanent link
I was tuning up a new station and all of a sudden, something clicked -- you started playing music I wanted to hear. I wanted to buy a couple of albums with songs you had played. So I clicked in your interface: "Buy MP3 from Amazon.com". The click failed because, like any sane human being, I have popups blocked by my browser. Your solution: You want me to disable popup blocking? Love, Ellen The Church - A Box of Birds; Snow Patrol - Eyes Open...
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Out of control outgoing links
9 April 2009 - Permanent link
Okay, I already knew that I hate and detest the new-ish Facebook practice in which you don't just navigate to outgoing links; you get taken to a Facebook page with the site you were trying to visit loaded into a frame, and with a Facebook toolbar at the top of the page. And now, not only does Digg do it too, but the sites are so dumb that they're double stacking these stupid toolbars. This is crap primarily because it breaks basic web behavior: the URL on your web browser no longer represents the page you're viewing, or trying to...
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Really annoying Fireworks CS4 bug with "large nudge" command
28 January 2009 - Permanent link
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