While your authoritative and greatly respected publication may use a hyphen on email, the jury might still be out on that spelling.
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language Fourth Editions states, "The development of website as a single uncapitalized word mirrors the development of other technological expressions which have tended to evolve into unhyphenated forms as they become more familiar. Thus email has recently been gaining ground over the forms E-mail and e-mail, especially in texts that are more technologically oriented. Similarly, there has been an increasing preference for closed forms like homepage, online, and printout."
Several other sources including Wikipedia give email as a secondary spelling. Since you are an important authority, based on the nature of your position in a top shelf publication, perhaps you may want to influence a change at the Wiikipedia discussion page. However, I like email because not including a hyphen saves me a keystroke.
Ha! Being a recognized authority on nothing in particular, I have a use for both spellings of the word e-mail. In writing, as here, I use the hyphenated version; it's a bit easier to read than the unhyphenated version. But because I use TypeIt4Me to expand expressions I use regularly, I use "email" as a trigger to type my e-mail address. So, having two spellings available is convenient, if nothing else. ;-)
I expect Jason made the correction, first, out of a sense of fun, and second, because Macworld Magazine has a style book specifying e-mail as the preferred spelling. I'm sure he'll set me straight if I am mistaken.
{quote:title=Biallystock wrote:}If they were being followed by the Usability Police they'd be pulled over and breathalised repeatedly!{quote}
A cool new verb! I shall add it to my verb collection :-)
Just once I'd like to see Apple pause and fix things before plunging forward into something new.
The Finder needs a ton of work, Stoplight needs a ton of work, there are security issues with AppleScript that must be addressed, Safari needs a ton of work, Address Book & iCal & Mail need some love... there's just so much to do that I fear that once Leopard gets a Snow job, so will we.
How many Finder idiotsyncracies remain from Jaguar, Panther & Tiger? There are bugs on the official list that are 4 and 5 years old for heaven's sake. Dragging a JPEG to the Mail icon still causes a freeze/crash (Plain Text - when set to Rich Text, there's no problem). This has been going on for FOUR YEARS. C'mon.
It's also time to repair persistent OS issues such as folder merging. Everyone here understands the difference between Win folder merging and OS X folder merging. Apple's implementation is remarkably stupid, I believe, especially when the command is available in Terminal: $ cp -iR
Time to integrate this into the UI, it's just ridiculous.
I would pay $129 for OS X 10.5.7 if it was known that the team spent some time under the hood to fix a load of lingering problems. And I believe the bulk of Mac users would as well. Let's stop this legacy of importing issues from one generation to the next.
Bugs that live forever. Laptops in the same WiFi signal limiting metal enclosure for (((yawn))) six years. What are they doing back there? Anything? They've removed computer from the company name, and it really shows.
We should change the name of this thread to why we hate the iPod and the iPhone - because they've both made our computing lives worse.
Matt, you are so right. Though I will buy a new iPhone (I absolutely hate my Blackberry), I'm becoming hugely frustrated with Apple. I'm writing a feedback complaint sometimes twice a day. I spend a ridiculous amount of time looking for solutions, if not for bugs, then for workarounds or 3rd party solutions to usability or integration issues in Mail, iCal, AddressBook, iTunes, the Finder or networking. If Vista is truly worse, I shudder to think. Because folks don't have anywhere else to go (the competition is worse) Apple may think they're doing pretty well with computing. But I used to love my Macs; now I grit my teeth. The pity of it is that I think any money Apple might invest in fixing and improving these issues would be very well spent.
Today's Feedback:
It's Music! No, it's a Movie! No, it's a Podcast! It's Not an Audiobook! What is it? Dunno, can't even find it.
The inability to designate which Library source an item will be found in is a real problem. I must search several separately - retyping the search each time.
Well, there is a simple reason why command-H does not hide the application; Before that was part of the OS, Adobe made Command-H hide the selection outline. It used to be available under the menu, but a few versions back they took it out. It's a great feature when you are applying filters and other tools to a selection and want to see what it will look like without the running ants.
Well, there is a simple reason why command-H does not hide the application; Before that was part of the OS, Adobe made Command-H hide the selection outline. It used to be available under the menu, but a few versions back they took it out. It's a great feature when you are applying filters and other tools to a selection and want to see what it will look like without the running ants.
Good point. I had forgotten what Command-H does in Photoshop because I don't often use it - though I remember the shortcut when I need it. And it's not hard to add an extra keystroke to hide the application. The problem people are having with it appears to be that the command is not universal through the Adobe suite and that, in the case of InDesign, it seems to work unreliably. The reliability issue appears to me to be the more important one.
"Safari Cookies Some sites remember me, while others—including some (Flickr, Twitter) that should know me well—require that I log in every time."
This still happens to me even after resetting Safari and then putting my information in again. It's not a huge issue; it's just one of those "mildly annoying" quirks.
whitedog wrote: +" I had forgotten what
Command-H does in Photoshop because I don't often use it - though I
remember the shortcut when I need it. And it's not hard to add an extra
keystroke to hide the application."+
That what makes ASM so awesome. I guess I'm just old fashioned... to me, a Mac isn't a Mac without the Finder's App Menu on the upper right :-)
Rick, you did not mention Time Machine in this article. It ran once correctly for me. Ever since that backup finished, Time Machine fails with the message "Backup Failed" (paraphrased). Will Apple ever fix this?
Rick, here's another you may have forgotten, although there's so many, they would need to publish a special 3" thick MacWorld edition just to cram them all in (hey, that's not a bad idea!!!).
Kevin Lepard - wrote into Macintouch:
"Has anyone else noticed this bug in Preview under 10.5.3? I can reliably reproduce this one.
Load a 4 page .pdf. Select pages 2 and 4. Press command-delete. The wrong pages remain, and if you hit command-Z the operation is undone incorrectly."
This has happened to me previously, ruined a PDF I was editing & wasted a whole lot of my time... I had forgotten about this but it's still there after the 10.5.4 update.
This is another data loss bug, the worst sort of bug you can have. Apple needs to purge these - it's just been too long.
While I agree the onus is on Apple to stabilize Time Machine, you are not helpless to fix it yourself. First, use Disk Utility to run repair disk and permissions on your Time Machine volume; if this is insufficient to get it working again, hit it with DiskWarrior. I've run into the backup failure message a time or two and using these utilities has fixed it for me. For some reason, a Time Machine backup volume seems to get dinged more often than most.
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