How is it that I went for all of 2006 without a hate? As I admitted in a recent post, I use a MacBook. It has a gigantic touchpad with one big button. I set that trackpad to tap-to-click, and I use the button... well, never? I guess I use it for the "hold button while booting to eject stuck coaster" once a year or so.
Well, and for one other thing. I use it for rating songs in iTunes. Normally, I just hit cmd-opt-number and Wincent Synergy rates the current track. That's no good if I want to rate the track I just listened to. So, I cmd-tab over to iTunes, hit cmd-l to find the current track, up to get to the previous one, and then... well, then I need to use the trackpad. There's no built-in "rate selected song" keystroke. The rating column, though, is clickable. You click on the empty star container and it fills it with stars, like the giant hateful monolith it is. In fact, like that big black monolith, it always leaves me flailing my arms, whacking at my trackpad. TAP TAP TAP TAP TAP. *OH*. Then I remember. See, you can't *tap* the stars to rate. You have to click. With the button. Apparently clicking and tap-to-click are secretly different. I guess it protects you from... I don't know, rating too hastily? Hate. -- rjbs
