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Basic technology options that you can't believe aren't standard
- Thread starter Mariolee
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Google has tons of these. Among them:
-not being able to easily delete unused rows or columns in Google Sheets
and, the worst,
-not being able to indent a paragraph in Google Docs on iOS.
The second one is so utterly ridiculous that, despite listing it here, I still refuse to believe it is actually true. I expect someone to correct me here and tell me everything will be ok.
-not being able to easily delete unused rows or columns in Google Sheets
and, the worst,
-not being able to indent a paragraph in Google Docs on iOS.
The second one is so utterly ridiculous that, despite listing it here, I still refuse to believe it is actually true. I expect someone to correct me here and tell me everything will be ok.
Not tech related, but foot pedal hand sanitizer dispensers outside stores / super markets. Who wants to put their hand on a dispenser that hundreds of other people have touched just to get some hand sanitizer that probably won't even get rid of all the germs and stuff you picked up from touching it?
Easer than select row/column, press RMB and choose delete?
Notepad++ keeps edits to unsaved files (and new files you never saved) even after you close the program, only discarding them if you close their tab. Generally quite useful. Strangely the PowerShell ISE supports that... but only if the application does not shut down properly. Otherwise it will demand that you save or discard each tab before quitting. But if it's force-killed? All the tabs are still there, even unsaved ones.
Unless there is some option to change the default new sheet size (set at 1000 rows that need to be manually selected to delete), yes it could significantly easier.
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If this happens you can just go to history and reopen all tabs with a single click (two form the main screen).
In photoshop at least since ver.7.0 there are guides that let you know if the image is centered or aligned with ither elements of your composition.
Well in this specific case it's just a calculated anti-consumer decision. Though there are brands that are putting it back on their phones.
AKA it's not a bug, it's a feature* !
*designed to make you spend more money
You can on vivaldi android. Just press and hold a tab and slide to left and right.
The rule of potentially 'destructive actions'. Always get additional confirmation.
This is the reason I'm keeping my OnePlus 7 Pro for as long as possible.
Not being able to turn off the UI sound effects on Xbox. Why could we do it on the 360 but never since?!
So by New York Times article i'm guessing you mean a browser. By and large this is not the fault of the browser, except for some specific use cases like mobile browsers which tend to be a little worse off than their desktop versions, and might suffer in specific and weird ways. But by and large this is a problem with the web application being bloated with third party scripts or general bad practices. Lots of these big content websites struggle to get 60fps rendering. It's one of the reasons to use ad/tracking blockers, they often give you a noticeable jump in performance.
Safari on iPhone, hold the phone horizontally/landscape and move the tabs around freely.
Proper, resolution-independent UI scaling on desktop OSes. I have several people at work who have bad eyesight, and my options are to search online for the biggest 720p monitor I can find and run it at native resolution, or get a 1080p monitor and lower the resolution from native (which blurs the shit out of the text).
I could increase the text size but that wouldn't increase everything. Plus, some apps we use at work go all fuckety and unusable if the text scaling isn't set to 100%.
I could increase the text size but that wouldn't increase everything. Plus, some apps we use at work go all fuckety and unusable if the text scaling isn't set to 100%.
How can you misclick, lol. Reopen chrome and press cmd/control + shift + T
I make a fortune by selling headsets overpriced currently. Same with webcams. The market is still not healthy at all (at least in Europe).
Example the shitty C270 Logitech I bought for 12€ p.p. and resell for 50€ which is still cheaper than most other sellers. Headsets are even way worse in that regard.
Operating systems remembering your window positions or which display they're assigned to after reboot. Both Windows and macOS are supposed to do it, or something like it, but more than half the time it doesn't work. And it's such a basic tenet of day to day computer use.
Thanks - didn't know about that. It's certainly a step in the right direction from one software vendor. I'm still firmly stood on my soapbox though.
I just checked and using Cmd + X in Finder doesn't do anything.
This x1000. I have a 2016 Rav4 and it even advertised a great stock entertainment system, but it was worse than the aftermarket systems that I looked at 5+ years before. It also has just abysmal glares too when the sun comes in. The USB feature is the worst of it all - it has to re-index your music every time you turn your car off/on. So if you have over, say, 10GB of songs, that's about 2 or 3 minutes before you can even play music since it's spending all that time re-indexing everything.
My warranty just ended so I'm absolutely replacing it with something better.
Tap the AirPlay icon in the upper-right of Control Center, rather than long-pressing the Bluetooth icon twice.
cmd + X worked for me.
but it turns out it's just shortcut for copy >:(
However... If you do copy then Cmd + option + V it will cut and paste rather than copy and paste
1) Headphone jack on phones
2) Optical drive slot on ATX cases
That 2nd one was kind of bewildering to me. I haven't built a pc since maybe 2016 and recently my brother in law asked me to build him a new desktop. So, thinking that a case should have an optical drive slot by default, I just bought a nice Lian Li case, with a bare DVDRW drive and a Windows 10 install disc. Unpack the case and there is nowhere to put an optical drive. Never even thought to check for this with a brand new standard ATX case. So instead of returning all of the disc related stuff since I was on a time crunch, I just bought a USB Optical enclosure instead.
2) Optical drive slot on ATX cases
That 2nd one was kind of bewildering to me. I haven't built a pc since maybe 2016 and recently my brother in law asked me to build him a new desktop. So, thinking that a case should have an optical drive slot by default, I just bought a nice Lian Li case, with a bare DVDRW drive and a Windows 10 install disc. Unpack the case and there is nowhere to put an optical drive. Never even thought to check for this with a brand new standard ATX case. So instead of returning all of the disc related stuff since I was on a time crunch, I just bought a USB Optical enclosure instead.
That's the norm in Brazil, it is weird when you get a card that is debit only, for example. You can always only have debit enabled on a card, but if you ever enable credit you dont need a new card for that.
Optical media is quickly dying on PC, which is why case manufacturers are dropping it. Even laptops are starting to drop support for them (my ThinkPad P50 doesn't have a drive bay, for example).
Auto-dimming rear view mirrors in cars. I've used them since 2007. I get why car companies make this an upsell accessory, because that's where they increase their margins, but it really seems like something that should be a default safety feature. If you drive a higher-riding truck or SUV, you probably don't see the need, but if you're in a normal ride height car, when 3/4 of the vehicles on the road are trucks and SUVs, it's great not to be blinded anytime you drive at night.
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what about a jabber headset. Our firm handed those out they are pretty handy.
Have you seen the Bluetooth spec...did you know that some companies are not even adhering to it? Yeah, that's when it becomes a mess especially when you bring multipoint into the equation and then it becomes even a bigger problem. Devices go into different modes and some didn't even stay in connectable state because of battery concerns so there is that. Connection management should definitely be better, I agree, the Bluetooth spec has a bunch of limitations unfortunately.
Press Cmd + Shift + T to bring back the closed window. (Ctrl + Shift + T on Windows). Works the same for closed tabs.