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Kevin Ballard reported a problem in Connected Flow on July 26, 2009 03:44:

iPhoto Flickr Authorization crash in Snow Leopard

iPhoto crashes in Snow Leopard when FlickrExport tries to request authorization from Flickr.

Kevin Ballard started following the problem "We want all @ replies reinstated" in Twitter.

Kevin Ballard asked a question in Realmac Software on February 05, 2009 20:58:

No on-screen zoom control while editing

When I'm editing an image there's no control in the window to control the zoom level. The slider that controls the zoom level in the browser should be repurposed to control the zoom level when editing. I shouldn't have to use the menu for this, especially because the menu doesn't let me pick intermediate zoom levels between the zoom stops.

Kevin Ballard replied on January 22, 2009 15:36 to the question "Is there any way for the tags to display on my posts?" in Tumblr:

I figured out that I could edit the theme to add tag info, but why don't any of the built-in themes display tags? In addition, why doesn't the theme preview have any tags? This makes it very hard to customize my theme for tags when I have to keep publishing to my live tumblog

Kevin Ballard started following the question "Is there any way for the tags to display on my posts?" in Tumblr.

Kevin Ballard replied on December 05, 2008 05:53 to the problem "Drive Manager opens on wrong space" in ExpanDrive:

Great!

I never have the problem of switching spaces when dragging windows. You have to drag so that the cursor is on the edge of the screen and hold it there for a full second for it to switch, which I never do - if my cursor hits the edge of the screen, I drop the window. I suspect you're dragging it and holding into it because you want to move it right back afterwards, yes? I just use Exposé for that (I never thought I'd ever use the corner hotspots until I actually turned them on and got used to using them).

And yeah, many applications don't behave quite right, but most of them do. The ones that don't are the ones that hold onto the window after it's closed and just re-display it, and even then it's often acceptable (if I think of an application as existing on a particular space, I don't mind switching back to that space when re-opening a window). Of course, the ones where this is a problem are extremely annoying, but TextMate finally just pushed out an update that fixed this issue for all of their windows (after I'd been bugging Allan Odgaard for months).

Kevin Ballard marked one of Jon Shea's replies in ExpanDrive as useful. Jon Shea replied to the problem "Drive Manager opens on wrong space".

Kevin Ballard replied on December 05, 2008 05:17 to the problem "Drive Manager opens on wrong space" in ExpanDrive:

Spaces became much more manageable when they added the checkbox for "When switching to an application, switch to a space with open windows for the application" (that used to be default behavior, but now I can turn it off).

As for opening the window on the current space, check out -setCollectionBehavior: on NSWindow.

Kevin Ballard reported a problem in ExpanDrive on December 04, 2008 23:35:

Drive Manager opens on wrong space

ExpanDrive opens the Drive Manager on the original space, and doesn't even switch to that space. It should open it on the current space always.

Kevin Ballard reported a problem in Tapulous on July 20, 2008 01:59:

Friend Book scrolling ignores bottom bar

Friend Book doesn't take into account the bottom bar when calculating scrolling. In other words, the bottom-most element when viewing a contact is cut off. If the bottom bar were missing, it would look fine.

Kevin Ballard asked a question in Delicious Monster on July 17, 2008 21:29:

I'd like an easy way to mark an item as played/read

Is there an easier way to mark an item as played/read besides going into edit mode, locating the Played/Read checkbox (since it moves depending on the size of content above it), checking that, and leaving edit mode? It would be great if there was a menuitem or something similar to just say "I've played/read this item".

Kevin Ballard replied on July 13, 2008 08:39 to the idea "Let me take pictures!" in Connected Flow:

I vote for keeping the functionality separate. I don't have a strong opinion, but it does seem simpler that way.

Kevin Ballard started following the question "Dashboard Widget?" in Brightkite.

Kevin Ballard started following the idea "Automatic Check-ins == You Win" in Brightkite.