{"id":70,"date":"2003-11-10T05:23:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-10T05:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Rants\/rantlets.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"rantlets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2003\/11\/10\/rantlets\/","title":{"rendered":"Rantlets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Random rantage, assorted annoyances, miscellaneous mumblings.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Updates to Mail.app in Panther include some new sound effects.  There is a new &#8216;mail sent&#8217; sound, like a swoosh or airplane taking off; there&#8217;s also a &#8216;no new mail&#8217; sound (played only if you asked for mail check manually) that&#8217;s a charming mix of fingers on a blackboard and the shower scene from <cite>Psycho<\/cite>.    In Mail&#8217;s preferences dialog, you can change the new mail sound (just as you could in Jaguar), but you can&#8217;t change any of the other sounds.  You can only turn &#8216;other sounds&#8217; on or off.  That&#8217;s just lazy and sloppy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>If you&#8217;re going to bother inserting ads in a webpage, <em>use a permalink<\/em>.  Ads on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macintouch.com\/index.shtml\">Macintouch<\/a> are tasteful and subtle (one line of text, in a colored box, inline in the articles), but when I saw one today for something I was interested in, the link took me to the advertiser&#8217;s home page, not to the product mentioned in the ad.  I searched and found the product is still caried and in stock (just out of curiosity as to why the link failed), but they lost a potential sale.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/texturizer.net\/firebird\" title=\"Firebird Community Homepage\">Firebird<\/a> 0.7.1 has been bugging me lately.  Granted, it&#8217;s beta, but this is just one of those things I keep noticing.  I use the status bar, so I can hover a link and see where it goes before deciding to click.  I also tend to maximize my Firebird window.  At this point, if I click a link from another app (like NetNewsWire) which opens a new window, it&#8217;s top-left corner is tiled over and down from my existing window.  Since the existing window was maximized, the new window is the same size; but since the new window is tiled down, the status bar is now off the bottome of the screen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of status bars, Mail.app doesn&#8217;t have one.  It claims to, but this is the info bar between the mail list and the preview pane.  I need a real status bar, at the bottom of the window, so I can hover links and see where they go.  Or show me this info as a tooltip.  Don&#8217;t make me click blind.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Football coverage on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbs.com\"><span class=\"caps\">CBS<\/span><\/a> is just plain painful.  Greg Gumble has got to be the worst commentator I have ever heard.  Thank goodness the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philadelphiaeagles.com\">Eagles<\/a> games are usually covered on Fox.  Go Birds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Random rantage, assorted annoyances, miscellaneous mumblings. Updates to Mail.app in Panther include some new sound effects. There is a new &#8216;mail sent&#8217; sound, like a swoosh or airplane taking off; there&#8217;s also a &#8216;no new mail&#8217; sound (played only if you asked for mail check manually) that&#8217;s a charming mix of fingers on a blackboard [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}