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Brad Choate
San Francisco, California
Software developer, working at SAY Media.
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Don't forget @pleasefixthat
This blog is for long-form posts, but the bite-sized gripes go to Twitter. Follow the [pleasefixthat](http://twitter.com/pleasefixthat) user there to catch them all, including retweets from other annoyed Twitizens. Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2013 at Please. Fix. That.
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iTunes Store: Don't download movies to my phone, please
Scenario: I'm at work and I have a date night planned with my wife. The kids will be staying home to see a movie and it's my job to find something for them to watch. "Hey, I'll find something in iTunes", he says. So I do, and I buy it.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 26, 2013 at Please. Fix. That.
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Web: status.twitter.com
Posted Jan 31, 2013 at Please. Fix. That.
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Missing Lyrics in MP3s
Posted Jan 30, 2013 at Please. Fix. That.
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iTunes: About that dialog for deleting a podcast episode
Posted Jul 11, 2012 at Please. Fix. That.
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Unix: ditch the rmdir command in favor of rm
Under Unix-derived operating systems (Linux, Mac OS X, etc.), there are a pair of commands used to delete files and directories. `rm` is used to "remove" file(s), `rmdir` is used to "remove directory". If you try to use `rm` to delete a directory, you get this: $ rm directory rm:... Continue reading
Posted Jun 14, 2012 at Please. Fix. That.
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Pandora: Enough with the live recordings
Look, I love music. I listen to as much music as I can. But live recordings (particularly of a live venue) just aren't my thing. I don't care for the crowd cheers, the sing-alongs, the improvisation, the occasional rant-about-something-in-the-middle-of-my-famous-song. It just doesn't do it for me. When I hear a... Continue reading
Posted Jun 5, 2012 at Please. Fix. That.
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Preview: Let go of that file!
Posted May 29, 2012 at Please. Fix. That.
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Mac App Store: Swipe to navigate history
UPDATE: Fixed in OS X 10.8. The "Swipe between pages" gesture for a mouse and trackpad (as configured through System Preferences) do not navigate forward and backward through your history in the Mac App Store (as they do for Safari). I can't tell you how many times I've tried using... Continue reading
Posted May 29, 2012 at Please. Fix. That.
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iOS: Missing Modes
UPDATE: "Do Not Disturb" is available in iOS 6. Still waiting for an energy saving mode. A while back, a highly-publicized faux pas brought some attention to the need to silence a smartphone without turning it off. Many of us carry these little noise-makers in our pockets... ready to embarrass... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2012 at Please. Fix. That.
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Twitter: Who to Follow
Posted May 4, 2012 at Please. Fix. That.
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Google: Search For What I Asked For
Google has adopted an annoying habit of changing what I have asked to search for with something similar but different to what I want. Perhaps this doesn't affect you, but for a software developer, it happens all too often. Here's a recent example. I search Google for the phrase: "document... Continue reading
Posted Mar 29, 2012 at Please. Fix. That.
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Apple Developer Login: Stop preventing paste
Posted Mar 12, 2012 at Please. Fix. That.
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To be clear, Android 2.2 and later offer the ability to upload specific types of files (I tested in Android 4.0.3 just now and was offered the option to select an audio file, image or video file). So it doesn't let you select from any sort of file on your device, but for select media (as I suggested Apple could implement in my post).
Mobile devices don't really expose a traditional file system to the user, although it's possible they could expose content from an SD card using a traditional file browser (Android could do this already; I just don't have a real device with an SD card to test with at the moment).
SO, Android (2.2+) fans: I'm so happy for you. But this isn't about you, or Android.
I should probably post a separate post for TwitPic on this issue -- even though Android does support a file upload field, they don't bother showing a file upload for Android web browsers... instead, they say that the browser is unsupported and suggest emailing the photo to them instead.
Commented Feb 22, 2012 on Mobile Safari: The broken file upload field at Please. Fix. That.
Mobile Safari: The broken file upload field
FIXED: File upload support (for images, video only) is available as of iOS 6. It lets you either select an existing photo or video, or you can choose to take one right then. Hopefully, iOS will eventually support selection of other file types, but this is good enough to be considered fixed in my...
Google Reader: Broken next and interestingness
This post concerns Google Reader. In it, I will cleanly side-step: the recent redesign the loss of certain features the encroachment of Google+ the issues around data portability and difficulties surrounding the transfer of former Google Reader social contacts to Google+ No, I'd like to draw a bit of attention... Continue reading
Posted Jan 9, 2012 at Please. Fix. That.
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Oct 6, 2011
Mac OS X: Dismissive menu separators
Posted Oct 3, 2011 at Please. Fix. That.
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foo.example.com: Don't forget to link to example.com
Congratulations! A visitor has found your web site. They came across it while doing a Google search that landed them at a weird address (something like "http://blog.bigcorp.com/archives/2011/blah-blah-blah.aspx"). After spending all of 5 seconds on that page, they now want to see what your company is about. So, they click on... Continue reading
Posted Sep 14, 2011 at Please. Fix. That.
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Chrome and Firefox: The over-reaching About box
Posted Jul 29, 2011 at Please. Fix. That.
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