08 Aug 2003
More Uses for Useful Things

Having had this sort of experience myself, I can sense some of the bemusement of Apple's developers. I once wrote a genealogy program that was used to start a profitable business - not tracking people, but horses! I had made the labels ("father", "mother", etc.) configurable to accomodate other languages - but this guy just used "sire" and "dam" ....

Developers and other engineers often claim that there's no way to "idiot-proof" a product or program, because the idiots are so clever. Indeed they are!

101 Uses for Apple IChat. People are finding many versatile uses for Apple's iChat AV software, like sharing video across town or finding dates. Thing is, they're not using it much for video conferencing, the task for which it was built. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]

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