AppleCare should sponsor this product.
Shake to Undo (for Mac OS X)
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Re: Shake to Undo (for Mac OS X)
#52Is it just me or is Shake to Undo one of the worst features of iOS on the iPad? You are happily typing an email on the train and then you screw up and delete a bunch of text. To undo it, you have to pick the iPad up off your lap or off the table and shake it pretty damn hard. You end up looking like an absolute maniac.
Agreed, and I constantly trigger it unintentionally.
Re: Shake to Undo (for Mac OS X)
#53The twisting motion illustrated is more dangerous to hard drives than a simple up and down or side to side shake; the heads are being pushed into the gyroscopic platters. [citation needed]
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
My only disappointment is that they didn't report on Shell of Disapproval instead, which is a program that I actually use daily. http://i.imgur.com/qjPSR.png https://github.com/NateStedman/shell-of-disapproval
I like it, but my tastes prefer something a little more subtle: https://gist.github.com/1199925
my favorite part is the "optional confirmation overlay"
Re: Shake to Undo (for Mac OS X)
#55"Mission Control removes the confusing grid that previously plagued Spaces. Where a user with four spaces could previously end up on any of the other three with a single keystroke, he or she is now presented with a much less confusing choice between one or two." I liked the ability to traverse a 2x2 grid of Spaces with a single keyboard stroke. Now, if I set up four screens with the new Mission Control in Lion, I hav…
I use three spaces. From left to right, browsing space, then Xcode space and finally gimp and inkscape space.
Control and an arrow key moves me to either of the other two. Sadly, Lion doesn't seem to wrap around, so this isn't supported.
It's been a while since I tried Lion, maybe I should give it another shot.
Re: Shake to Undo (for Mac OS X)
#56While the idea is interesting, this is probably not something I would use on a laptop. Picking up and shaking a laptop while it's open and running goes against all my "protect fragile and expensive equipment" instincts. Tablets and phones are normally held in one's hands anyway, and weigh much less and are better balanced.
Agreed, with pure solid state though its not as big of a deal. But I remember having to manually park hard drive heads before moving desktops. Shaking anything that spins activates my spidey sense that I will cause head crashes.
Re: Shake to Undo (for Mac OS X)
#57Is it just me or is Shake to Undo one of the worst features of iOS on the iPad? You are happily typing an email on the train and then you screw up and delete a bunch of text. To undo it, you have to pick the iPad up off your lap or off the table and shake it pretty damn hard. You end up looking like an absolute maniac.
Few people know this, but you don't have to pick it up off your lap to trigger the redo action. There's a redo key on the #+= page of the iPad's keyboard.
I know that this isn't particularly great design on Apple's part because it's not intuitive or easily discoverable, but once you know it it's quite handy and better than nothing.