WordPress released a native iPhone application today. Now if only typing on an iPhone didn’t kinda blow.
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Ever since upgrading to Leopard, I was surprised to find that screen captures of windows now include a drop shadow. If you’re not familiar with OS X’s built-in screencap utility, you can hit cmd-shift-3 to grab the full screen, cmd-shft-4 to get selection crosshairs, and if you use cmd-shift-4 then hit the spacebar, you’ll be able to grab any screen elements (windows, menus, etc.). In Tiger, the latter method would grab just the window, and in Leopard, it grabs the window plus its drop shadow. I found this extremely annoying, because I often need to put together instruction sheets for users, and I found I was always having to crop-out the shadow.
Since Leopard was released, I would occasionally google to try to find a solution to this problem, but have never been able to find a fix. Until today, when I had an epiphany. OS X has a command line screen capture tool. “Perhaps I’ll find a clue there,” I thought. Sure enough – pay dirt. Look what I found in the man page…
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With my best sarcasm voice: ‘IDG has really outdone themselves again with their stellar MacWorld Expo website this year.’ To say nothing of the issues with the code (the footer was in the middle of all the pages a week or so ago), but the site itself is so hard to use. I’m attending the MacIT Conference again this year, and I’d love to have a PDF to download so I can read through the descriptions and figure out my schedule. Instead the only way to get this info is to click through each link on the site, either back and forth or via a bunch of browser tabs. You’d think downloading the “MacIT Conference-@-a-Glance” PDF would be useful, but what you get is a PDF print out of a schedule produced in Excel. No information about conferences at all aside from their start and stop times. It’s painfully obvious, the whole thing was put together with a shoestring budget, but why? Are Expos going the way of the dinosaur, or is it just bad management? Or both? It’s hard to say, but complicating such a simple task isn’t helping anyone. This site could stand a healthy dose of Web 2.0, stat!
TechScorn is now iPhone-ready thanks to the handy iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme! The guys over at Content Robot frickin’ rock. Thanks guys!
Most Upcoming users may not even notice the war that’s raging behind the scenes at this very minute. However, being the RSS junkie that I am, it’s painfully obvious. You see, on the web-side, it looks like Upcoming is doing a good job of keeping the site spam free. Unfortunately it appears their RSS pipe, which I use daily to find new events in San Francisco, is passing along each and every spam event that’s entered.
