Archive for June, 2006

Yahoo Maps vs Google Maps: Yahoo getting better and better

Wednesday, June 7th, 2006

Yahoo Maps Beta
A few months ago I wrote a little rant about how none of the map websites accepted a single paste a of multi-line address, and how lame that was. I followed up with writing my own little hack to make it possible with Google Maps and Yahoo Maps.

Shortly after writing these blog posts, I was asked to do a User Interface presentation at one of the major search/maps companies in Sillicon Valley Read the rest of this entry

Tags: Yahoo, Google, maps, User Interface

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Photoshop CS2 Update: keyboard shortcut bug

Thursday, June 1st, 2006

Photoshop CS2 Logo
I’ve done a bit more research on the Photoshop bug I mentioned in an older post, and I’m now sharing it here.

For many versions of Photoshop for Windows, pressing ALT+E,A,V and ALT+E,A,H have been the only way to do keyboard shortcuts for Edit > Transform > Vertical and Horizontal flip. I learned these keystrokes 10 years ago and have been using them ever since. I don’t even think about it when I trigger them.

When CS2 was released a new feature was added to the Edit menu called Adobe PDF Presets, and some wisenheimer at Adobe decided that it needed a shortcut and assigned ‘A’ to it.

This broke the Transform menu shortcuts. Read the rest of this entry

Tags: Photoshop, Adobe

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