So for our family xmas present this year we picked up a Flip Mino HD. So far I’m really enjoying it. It’s super small, shoots great video and is fun to have around for all the funny moments with Kari.
I wasn’t about to carry around 2 full-size devices (we already have a nice DSLR) and I’d rather have really good photographs over really good video.
Without further ado, Jackie, Kari and I putting up the Christmas Tree.
Two years ago when I purchased my MacBook Pro I was interested in getting some sort of case for it. My colleague Jeff had this awesome sleeve for his Powerbook that I was in love with. Jeff and the other guys from the office all pitched in to get me the sleeve as a graduation present.
About a month ago the zipper broke. 🙁 I used this sleeve daily and always took great care when zipping it up. In fact it was almost always stored in my book bag, for added redundancy.
I thought to myself, “Crap. I’m going to have to buy a new one. No way there is any sort of warranty.”
Just to make sure I contacted booq, the makers of this great sleeve. They have a 5 year warrany! Since the sleeve was a gift I asked Jeff if he still had an copy of a recipt, invoice anything. Luckly he did. I sent off the sleeve, waited a few days and recieved a very polite email saying they recieved my sleeve.
They noted that it appeared to be defective and were going to replace it free of charge! The best part is that this apparently is a newer model sleeve. It is much more sturdy with a thicker foam insert.
I was impressed with my original sleeve*, impressed with thier customer service and the fact that I ended up getting an even better product is just icing.
I highly recommend booq if you want a great product and great service.
*So much that once my wife got her Mac we bought a sleeve for her as well
Update: John Nack from Adobe mentions a simpler solution for this particular menu behavior.
CS4 brings back the joy of the default ‘Show all Menu Items”. As I’ve previously written when CS3 came out, there is a way to manually modify the Edit>Menu options to enable all menu items to be displayed. It’s kinda lame that they enable this by default and offer no simple one-click solution to show all menu items.
I’m happy to report that my custom menu file works in CS4 just as well. Just double-click the Everything_on.mnu file and Photoshop will launch, putting the settings into place.*
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As to why Adobe has this default probably goes into issues designing the interface of a complex application. By hiding what they believe to be the least used items, it makes things appear simpler.
However, as a professional application I find this to be a bit oxymoronish. Why not prompt the user on first run with a simple series of questions.
What do you plan on doing with Photoshop?
Ok, while that’s by no means an ideal set of default options I hope you get the gist of what I’m trying to say.
Ask the user, don’t make assumptions and then make it possible to easily show all menu items.
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*With my limited testing this didn’t effect palettes or keyboard shortcuts, but YMMV.
Kari and I grabbed a bite to eat at The Good Egg, a local family restaurant this morning. After enjoying our breakfast we drove over to the South Mountain Park to take a few photos.
From there we met up with Jackie and headed over to the Stuffington Bear Factory. Kari picked out a kitty and they helped her stuff it and pick out some accessories. She had a good time and wanted to take home more than just one stuffed kitty!
Kari was getting sleepy so we stopped by a Paradise Bakery, grabbed some sandwiches and headed back to the hotel. After lunch and a nap I went out and took some pictures as the sun was setting over the resort.
We then went out to dinner at Majerle’s Sports Grill which wasn’t too bad, but not great. 🙁 Jackie wanted to get some gifts while we were hear, so we trudged to the mall with a tired 3 year hold…a heavy, tired 3 year old. After that we were back at the hotel, packing the last few things for our flight out tomorrow morning. We should be in STL around 2pm. See you all soon.
Did a lot today. Went to the Lego store and Apple store. Got lost looking for a particular restaurant. iPhone GPS ≠ real GPS. Got Kari her first set of Legos. Not MegaBlocks or Duplos. Real Legos. Our plans to build a life size replica of the Death Star have begun!
I’m really sleepy after eating some awesome Mexican food. We need more food like this back home. Will post more tomorrow.