Arash Ferdowsi:
If you give Dropbox to a user that is not technical at all, they will have lots of problem figuring it out. The reason for this is that Dropbox does not have a lot of user interface exposed on the desktop. The user needs to have a basic understanding of how their operating system works [to use Dropbox]. The fact that it is so invisible and behind the scenes is why they [non-technical users] don’t know how to use it.
Some interesting upcoming features are easier sharing and automatic file viewing and transcoding.
Basil Safwat (via John Gruber):
If you’ve only scrolled down a little bit and you happen to get a new email, you’ll be returned to the top (which is no big deal, because you knew you were only a little bit below the top, so it’s easy to get back to where you were), but if you are deeper in your inbox, getting a new email does nothing.
Nice.
Mike Lee:
When you think you’ve figured it out, try this: close the test folder and reopen it so you can start fresh with no selections at all. Then, shift-click folder 6. That should select folders 0-6. Shift-clicking folder 4 selects folders 0-4. Shift clicking folder 8 selects folders 0-8.
Now, with folders 0-8 selected, command-click folder F on and off again. Then, shift-click folder A.
Shift- and Command-clicking in Mac OS X lists is probably more complicated than you thought.
BMScript is an Objective-C class that abstracts the process of running scripts (Python, Ruby, shell, etc.) via NSTask (via Jonathan Rentzsch).
