{"id":217,"date":"2008-07-14T16:28:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T15:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=217"},"modified":"2008-07-14T16:28:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-14T15:28:01","slug":"a-feature-that-the-macbook-air-desperately-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2008\/07\/14\/a-feature-that-the-macbook-air-desperately-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"A feature that the Macbook Air desperately needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nTriple-finger drag == &#8220;move current window around on the screen&#8221;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That would fix *so much* despite being such a tiny tiny feature.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, it also needs for OS X to gain some basic features to bring it kicking and dragging into the 21st Century (I sometimes wonder how many people at Apple actually a) use computers on a daily basis and b) have tried seeing what &#8220;normal&#8221; development work on *other* platforms is like. The world has become a much better place in the last 10 years in ways that sometimes seem to have passed them by :P&#8230;):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In OS X: window-maximize button. There is no excuse. STFU.<\/li>\n<li>In OS X: user-mapping of the other multi-touch functions to keyboard shortcuts or scripts<\/li>\n<li>On the Air: a pageup key and a pagedown key (!)<\/li>\n<li>In OS X: some Apple engineer to remember to make the checkbox for &#8220;do NOT automatically spam all my private data on every random, unsecured wireless network you can find&#8221; actually work, instead of being ignored by the OS (yeah, it&#8217;s a bug. Needs fixing)<\/li>\n<li>In OS X: add a full Alt-Tab feature. Like with Linux and Windows. One which actually works<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But other than that, it&#8217;s mostly nice and still enjoyable. A proper review is coming soon, with answers to all the questions I had (or people have asked me) that no-one else seems to have covered in their online reviews. Stuff like &#8220;does it work outside on a sunny day?&#8221; (short answer: yeah! West Coast sunshine = no problem)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triple-finger drag == &#8220;move current window around on the screen&#8221;. That would fix *so much* despite being such a tiny tiny feature. Of course, it also needs for OS X to gain some basic features to bring it kicking and dragging into the 21st Century (I sometimes wonder how many people at Apple actually a) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}