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PC World's 20 Most Annoying Tech Products
Craig Sender writes to tell us that PC World has compiled a list of the 20 most annoying tech products of all time. Topping the list was AOL's ubiquitous free trial CD's. "This list hardly covers every annoying tech product ever made. But where did this list of 20 come from? [PC World Readers] picked the worst ones by voting in our Annoyances Poll, and you'll see your Top 10 most annoying products flagged with icons. Just for fun, we've added 10 more products that didn't get enough votes from you in our poll but that we found particularly irksome."
Yeah TFA is would fit nicely on two pages, but they spread it out to 7 pages in a small column covered in ads on all sides.
what? what I thought we were in the trust tree in the nest, were we not?
Radio Shack gave me one for free, and I had some fun hacking code for it to be able to organize my CD collection with a free handheld scanner.
I don't know how they define "annoying". Someone gave me a free gizmo, I don't know why that should annoy me.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,130638 /printable.html#
The top ten "short list" can be seen here.
Less annoying, and you can vote there as well.
"We are all geniuses when we dream"
- E.M. Cioran
A lot of people have been murdered every day. You do realize that, right?
"Thanks for all the money you paid to us. We've used it to buy off ISO among other things" -Microsoft
Or, more relevantly, "abomination".
> Yes, inane videocy was just what the web needed. Good going Macromedia.
I just finished playing 5 Minutes to Kill Yourself, and I can tell you, inane videocy is just what I needed. Thank god for flash.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
here it is
the first entry (clears the pagefile on shutdown) is not needed, but is included in every page on this for some reason.
the waittokill is in miliseconds and i like to have it around 5000 personally to give the program a little more time to clue in before it gets killed.
upon the advice of my lawyer, i have no sig at this time
Well, at least we won't see anymore posts from that Anonymous Coward guy. He has to be the most annoying person on slashdot.
Display Properties->Desktop->Customize Desktop
Uncheck "Run Desktop Cleanup Wizard every 60 days"
Most people here probably already know this, but this is for those who don't.
oh wah wah wah. here you go
To your post: 1) You can navigate dialogue boxes with the keyboard. You have to turn it on in system prefs though. 2) Pressing Enter is a Windows method. The Mac way isn't right or wrong, just different. As with most Mac keyboard commands, they usually require a modifier key so you don't inadvertantly cause the machine to do something you didn't want it to. A perfect example is deleting a file. With Windows, the delete key moves a file to the recycle bin. If you aren't paying attention, you can lose a file. Perhaps you have a sentence highlighted in Word and you hit the delete key to erase it, but you didn't realize the focus was actually on a file on the desktop...your sentence remains and your file goes in the bin. With OS X, you have to hold down the command key + Del key to move a file to the trash. This way it is impossible to inadvertantly delete a file because the computer requires a deliberate action to make it happen.