What I Am Doing Taking So Many Screenshots in the First Place

See previous post.

Software that No Longer Does the Little Things

I would like to take a screenshot and know the number of the Picture X.png file that results.

When you have a string of them and then delete a few, OS X fills in the gap in file numbers rather than going one higher than the highest number. So you can have Picture 3.png - Picture 4.png - Picture 7.png - Picture 8.png - Picture 12.png on your desktop wherein Picture 4.png is the most recent one you took.

Workaround of the Week

Instead of using Photoshop's Save for Web function, which makes everything look pale (and I am pale enough, thank you), I am taking screenshots of the .psd versions and cropping those for use on the web. Lovely.

They're Not Listening to Me

http://dearadobe.com/

Let's hope they're listening to everyone.

Holdouts Punished Once Again

Want to watch the Olympics online on a Macintosh? Make sure you buy an expensive new (and not all that much better) Intel Mac! Olympics will no play on my machine.

The obvious question: Are the Chinese censoring me?

Great

Has anyone ever had InDesign CS3 insert weird stuff? I was just flipping through a book I'm typesetting and there is: orange double triangles. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT? I didn't put it there. I have never created those shapes in Illustrator. IT JUST APPEARED. And it's not a weird invisible or a marker or a highlighted warning thing -- I deleted it with the text cursor. When selected, the font palette does not change--it's the same font as the text. I hate this.

Here's another look, and selected.

This Is A Bug, Right?

Every time I zoom in or out in InDesign, the page that comes up on my monitor is the middle of the document. For example, I'm working on something on page 54 of a 400-page document. I even have an item selected, so clearly that's the page I want to be on. Then, zoom and--zoom!--I'm on page 200.

This happens with command-hyphen and command-equals only, not the magnifying glass, so it has to be a bug, right? It is no help at all!

And guess what? If I hit the arrow keys or type something (to force InD to bring me back to page 54 where I'm working), it doesn't bring me back. But it does make the changes. I should NEVER be able to alter a page I'm not looking at.

Thankfully the pages pallette does not jump, so I can see the highlighted icon of the page I'm actually on there, but I still gotta navigate back.

Is this post less shrill? I'm trying to be less shrill and maybe even move toward actually being useful. Lord only knows to whom.