#annoying software

I was watching Technoroid Overmind off of this blog, but then it went on hiatus. I use Anilist to keep track of my anime and manga. On anilist it doesn’t show that it has come off of hiatus yet. So I had no need to go check because it is usually correct. 

I just decided to check now since it has been quite awhile. I am four damn episodes behind. This is just sad. And now I have to go to work. Guess what I’m doing as soon as I get back. 

Behavior: 

Isn't it annoying that whenever you'd like to copy and paste text from somewhere into the Command Prompt, that by default you have to click three times?

Problem:

Its just bloody annoying.  OS X, Linux and other flavors of UNIX has some sophisticated terminal applications which makes system administrators far more productive.  Some may pose that its a security risk to allow the command prompt access to your clipboard, but then I'd pose that the manner it was implemented is simply to patch a bigger underlying problem with Windows Security.

Solution:

Behavior:

Don't you just hate it when a application grabs the focus away from the application you're working on.  

Problem:

Unlike Windows, it seems that OS X Lion has nothing to prevent one application from grabbing focus away from another, meaning that while you're typing the ultra secret banking password into a website, another application, say Parallels or iTunes can request focus and without noticing it, you've typed your password (in clear text and for the world to see) in the newly focussed application.

Solution: 

OS X Lion can simply ignore any request from any application to receive focus unless it is the active application. Alternatively,  OS X Lion can solve this problem by implementing a priority based queue for focus.  Therefore if a user starts iTunes (which says takes 30 seconds to start), and immediately thereafter starts a browser such that it has focus, then any request coming from iTunes to have focus should be disregarded.

In addition, Apple can reject any application in the AppStore that attempts to take focus away from another application.