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Google Maps recently added the moon and Mars to its mapping service.
If you go to the moon version and zoom down to the highest magnification, it displays…swiss cheese. How great is that?
I am not making this up.
Damn you, Google! You make it so hard to dislike you.
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It’s completely clear and understandable! I know exactly what is expected of me from this email.
If only all my emails were this simple and soothing.
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It took me the better part of ten minutes, but I finally found a way out of my dilemma: File menu –> Preferences –> Reset Preferences –> select the checkbox labeled “Make all toolbars/pallettes visible and on screen.”
I wouldn’t mind those 10 minutes of my life back.
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I have been quite happy with Jasc Software’s Paint Shop Pro 8 for years, for one reason: it’s quick and easy to grab screenshots, edit them, and save them out to whatever format you like.
I wanted to grab a screenshot of my webmail client today. So I did what I normally do – launched PSP, pressed Shift+S, drew a rectangle around the portion of screen I wanted to capture, then left-clicked to capture.
There was a little bit of shmutz in the screenshot that I wanted to crop out, so I clicked on the “crop” icon in the PSP “modebar” (at least that’s what I call it in my head).
I drew a rectangle around the portion of the screen capture that I wanted to keep, then moved my mouse on up to the toolbar, where I’m supposed to click the “checkmark” button. I guess it means “do the action that you’ve just cued up.”
It wasn’t there.
The whole toolbar containing the checkmark button was gone.
I right-clicked in the toolbar region, hoping to find a way to display the toolbar containing the checkmark button. None of the toolbar choices I turned on contained the checkmark button.
Then I went looking through the menu system, hoping to find a “do it!” menu item that perfomed the same function as the checkmark button.
There’s craploads of menus, submenus, and items. But I can’t find anything that suggests it has the equivalent functionality of my missing checkmark button.
Now I’m looking for a menu item that would let me reset my toolbars to some kind of default configuration. But I’m not feeling confident about this. I just can’t seem to find it.
It’s pretty lame when an application gives a user enough rope to hang themselves with…and then doesn’t even offer you a knife to cut yourself down from the gallows.
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