Tag Archives: Hall of Shame
iPhone Dev Center forces "challenge-response" system
The new iPhone Dev Center forces a challenge response system. This is a problem at the best of times, but it’s especially bad when the available questions are so lame. What is the name of your hometown? Google will give … Continue reading
Facebook: More scuzzy advertising
This is like when the carpet cleaners call you to do a survey and ask how often your carpet is cleaned, and would you like to have it cleaned next Tuesday? Because we all know having 20 women a month … Continue reading
Putting the Duh in IDE
I have always, always hated applications that give a “Tip of the Day.” The reason is simple: It’s either telling you about something obvious, or something that you don’t need. The odds of it telling you something you actually need … Continue reading
Now you can save on error message!
Someone, somewhere paid something so that this ad could pop up in my browser earlier today. Hard to believe, isn’t it?
Please transverse me at an object level!
From time to time I like to highlight bad interface decisions. The pomposity of this text made me laugh. But now I feel so very dirty. Did nobody ever point this insanity out? Who would ever think this was a … Continue reading
Update what?
It may seem like I usually come down hard on Microsoft software. The simple reason for that is that Microsoft software is worse than Apple software. But that doesn’t mean Apple software is flawless. After the user double clicks a … Continue reading
Are we talking about the same Visual Studio?
Every time someone tells me how great an IDE Visual Studio is, I wonder if we’re talking about the same Visual Studio. Just to be clear, the one I’m using is from Microsoft. Here’s an error message I ran into … Continue reading
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