Okay, riddle me this, Apple Fans:<\/p>\n
Let’s say I have a list of 26 songs (let’s call them “A” through “Z”) in iTunes, and I want to select *some* of them. I click on the beginning of my selection (let’s say “L”) hold down shift, and start cursoring down to select “M, N, O, P” and keep going until I hit “S,” but through the magic of poor reflexes, I actually go one more line to “T.” I now have L throught T selected in a highlighted range that’s one more file than I wanted.<\/p>\n
With me so far?<\/p>\n
So, everyone think about what you would like to THINK would be the way to unselect the T track. Don’t answer me yet. Just keep it in your head for a second.<\/p>\n
I, as a old fogey user of Paperclip, Geos, Windows, OpenOffice, WP51Dos, and freakin’ Nano<\/i> user do the following:<\/p>\n
Keeping the shift key down, I hit cursor up.<\/b><\/p>\n
Can someone PLEASE<\/i> explain to me why the range increases<\/i><\/b> above my current selected range, to now include K? T is still selected.<\/p>\n
Really? K? That’s what people tend to do? Click somewhere in the middle<\/i> of the range they want to select and then hit cursor-up\/down to select in both directions? REALLY?<\/i><\/p>\n
I mean, c’mon. Who asked for that?<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s only in iTunes under Windows, but somehow I doubt it.<\/p>\n
And I’m looking at you too, Microsoft\/Logitech.<\/p>\n
F-Lock. F-Lock<\/b>? <\/p>\n
Let’s make the default of the function keys something OTHER than their normal response? BRILLIANT! A round of Nobel prizes, for my FRIENDS who came up with this. Thanks so<\/i> much for dooming 5 years worth of my fellow technicians to having to hit F-Lock (to put the functions keys BACK to their initial setting) and then F1, F2, F6, F8, or F11 to choose their boot\/setup options.<\/p>\n
Oh, and you have to do that<\/i> during the two seconds of the POST (Power On. See? Tease!<\/b>) when you’re allowed to do anything other than go back into Windows again.<\/p>\n
Pfft. F-lock. I mean, really.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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