Nick Retallack's dashboard

I work with projects that have a lot of files -- far too many to have a tab for each one. Instead, I just look at the project drawer for modified files, and hit Command-Option-S to save them all. The tab bar serves no purpose, and is quickly cluttered up with hundreds of open files. I might as well be able to hide it. Even better, it could automatically close any un-modified files as soon as I browse away from them.

Alternatively, some sort of intelligent tab mode that would promote the most recently used tabs to the left side could be helpful.

For a good example of how it could behave, check out Notational Velocity, which doesn't even require you to tell it when to save.

Rhapsody.com is an amazing service. There is just one thing that keeps me from using it more: the search sucks. It doesn't matter how much music the site has if you can't find it!

You can't input an artist and a track in a single search query. If you search for a track name, chances are you're going to get hundreds of tracks by different artists that aren't even remotely the right song. You might have to flip through many pages of this to find the one you're looking for, if they even have it, and you might get tricked by remixes and instrumental versions and covers and live performances, since the results show up in no particular order.

Alternatively, you could search for the artist first, and then flip through pages of their songs, but this is also tedious. There's no way to search through an artist's songs other than flipping pages and using your browser's text search. Sometimes I have to look up the song on wikipedia just to figure out what album it's on so I can find it on Rhapsody.

What I usually do to get around this is just type "artist song site:http://rhapsody.com" into google. This generally gets me to a page where I can find that song.

Rhapsody, there are plenty of ways to fix this. One is to abandon the whole "search by artist, by track, by composer, etc" dropdown and just do a full text search with all the words, like any modern searchable website would. Then users could mention the track name and artist in the same search box. In this way, you'd be performing all the kinds of searches at the same time, and showing a result-set for each, something modern website users come to expect.

If that's too hard, you could just display two search boxes, or do an "advanced search" page like everyone else is doing these days. Of course, most users would come to use this as their primary searching method.

Finally, you could just get a google search appliance and let them handle the indexing, or something like that.