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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Yeah, I'm with you on that. When I first switched over, the app install process seemed very... unnatural...
I wonder how much of that was due to MS brainwashing me into thinking that I can't run an application unless many, many files are first scattered all over my hard drive in lots of secret little hidden folders.
The whole "just drag the app to your app folder and then use it" thing took a whole to get my head around, for sure. I kept trying to run apps from inside DMGs and then wondering why they disappear on me, etc etc. Very un-apple.
Incidentally, what's the name of that app you mentioned?
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Dropzone. It basically sits in your dock and lets you drag various files overtop of it and perform certain actions. Here is my current dropzone:
I can drag a folder over it and *big breath* have it auto-zipped and placed into the body of an email, upload text to a site and have a link auto-copied to the clipboard, install an app, upload a file to my public folder in my dropbox and have the url copied to my clipboard, drag an image and make it my desktop image, shorten a link and have it auto-copied to clipboard, send a file to print, send a jpg to my twitpic, turn on my screensaver or send any file to any number of folders on my computer.
I find it really helps with workflow. I especially like the ability to move files around to various folders on my computer.
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Originally Posted by Barnes
^ Busted!
The thing about ease of use is, not everything can be designed so that it is inherently obvious how something should work but really good design will make sure that once you figure out how it works, you will never forget.
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This is an excellent point. I run into this problem when I'm reorganizing a website navigation structure. People demand I change something and suddenly no new user can figure out where the hell they need to go.