August 20, 2008
Tips that made me go D’oh! #8567 & #8568
#8567 If iTunes — one of the least intuitive user interfaces around — isn’t transferring podcasts onto your iPod (which, except for the wheel, is a UI so badly designed that your first instincts are almost wrong):
1. Click on your iPod in the “Devices” section of iTunes
2. Click on the “Podcasts” tab in the window on the right. (See here for instructions and a screenshot.)
3. Click on “Sync”
4. Click on “Apply” in the bottom right.
5. Smite your forehead and say “D’oh!”
(I’m not proud of this. It just never occurred to me that syncing podcasts would be off by default. And I had always clicked through the very top level of the device, not recognizing it as a preference pane. Hence the self-inflicted D’oh!.)
#8568 If you are using Firefox and want to quickly scroll among the many, many, many tabs you’ve accumulated, install the add-on All In One Gestures and set the mouse wheel preference so that you can then:
1. Position your mouse cursor over any tab.
2. Spin the wheel away from you.
3. Watch the tabs fly by.
4. Spin the wheel towards you.
5. Watch the history of your tabs pass before your eyes.
4. Smite your forehead and say “D’oh!”
