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App Store Woes

November 2, 2012October 12, 2012 by John McClintock

Today’s note arises from installing Lion updates to my video editor workstations, which should have taken 20 minutes, but ended up taking 4 hours.  Today I did not have typical problems just launching the App Store.  These are often fixed by a re-boot, trashing various preferences, etc.  However I did have two really annoying experiences … Read more

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Where’s the button?

October 26, 2012July 20, 2012 by John McClintock

This gas pump at a Marathon station near my home in Morrow County, Ohio is a living usability experiment.  It looks as though customers have pushed everything except the actual button at the bottom.  The plastic window over the price LCD has actually been broken by fingers trying to start the pump!

 

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