Comments on: iPhoto 6: Picture inserted at very top of body of e-mail message with shared photo http://www.betalogue.com/2006/03/07/iphoto-6-picture-inserted-at-very-top-of-body-of-e-mail-message-with-shared-photo/ Notes from an unfinished world… Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:48:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Paul Ingraham http://www.betalogue.com/2006/03/07/iphoto-6-picture-inserted-at-very-top-of-body-of-e-mail-message-with-shared-photo/comment-page-1/#comment-4284 Paul Ingraham Tue, 14 Mar 2006 03:26:13 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2006/03/07/iphoto-6-picture-inserted-at-very-top-of-body-of-e-mail-message-with-shared-photo/#comment-4284 Hearty agreement with these observations. I routinely navigate deftly through UI oddities like this, thinking all the while, “Man, am I ever glad I’ve been doing this since I was 8-years-old and it only takes me .8 seconds to realize that a single cursor movement will probably do the trick.” This is a great example of the kind of thing that I find really embarrassing when helping switchers (which is a routine situation for me). I constantly have to qualify my enthusiasm for the Mac platform, telling people with a shame-faced grin, “Well, it’s not as bad as Windows... but, yes, this particular thing here actually really sucks. Um. Sorry about that.” Having converted so many users to Mac, I actually feel almost personally responsible for OS X’s many shortcomings. Gr. Hearty agreement with these observations. I routinely navigate deftly through UI oddities like this, thinking all the while, “Man, am I ever glad I’ve been doing this since I was 8-years-old and it only takes me .8 seconds to realize that a single cursor movement will probably do the trick.”

This is a great example of the kind of thing that I find really embarrassing when helping switchers (which is a routine situation for me). I constantly have to qualify my enthusiasm for the Mac platform, telling people with a shame-faced grin, “Well, it’s not as bad as Windows… but, yes, this particular thing here actually really sucks. Um. Sorry about that.” Having converted so many users to Mac, I actually feel almost personally responsible for OS X’s many shortcomings. Gr.

]]> By: Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Quickies: A Sunday brunch of Mail.app links http://www.betalogue.com/2006/03/07/iphoto-6-picture-inserted-at-very-top-of-body-of-e-mail-message-with-shared-photo/comment-page-1/#comment-4273 Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » Quickies: A Sunday brunch of Mail.app links Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:58:23 +0000 http://www.betalogue.com/2006/03/07/iphoto-6-picture-inserted-at-very-top-of-body-of-e-mail-message-with-shared-photo/#comment-4273 [...] Pierre Igot’s eagle eye finds three things (that’s one , two , three ) wrong with the way that Mail.app and iPhoto work together to email photos. [...] [...] Pierre Igot’s eagle eye finds three things (that’s one , two , three ) wrong with the way that Mail.app and iPhoto work together to email photos. [...]

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