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It’s bad enough that Apple decided to kick their early adopters in the side yet again. Granted this isn’t even close to as bad as the $200 price drop of the iPhone. But it still stings. The odd thing about this particular upgrade is that all the software come standard on the iPhone. So, why exactly do I have to pay an additional $20 for something that should have came standard anyway? Oh yeah, new buyers get the software standard.

The said thing is that I immediately paid the blood money in order to get the notes program I have desperately wanted since buying the stupid thing a few months ago.

In my experience everything 37signals cranks out is over rated. I’m not sure why they get the positive press, and adoption rate they do.

I’m going to keep a running list of stuff that drives me nuts about it:

• You only received notifications when something is created, if something is edited you have no way of knowing
  • To clear up what I am talking about here. I know that you can explicitly include when you edit a message. However, what I would like to see is basecamp remember who was originally notified, and make them the default for notifications for that message.
  • Also, what would be nice, is what a message is edited, have it tell you what changed
• You CANNOT reply to notifications. You are forced to click on the link in the message, and wait the average 4 second load time for the page.
  • This feature has not been added because a lot of people don’t want it. However, based on my discussions with people both on and offline, a lot of people DO want it. So, why isn’t it a configurable option?
• Notifications don’t tell you what files are attached to a message, just that there might be some random number
• Links in messages become plain text in notifications, so you have no way of knowing that there are even links in the message
• It is SLOW, seriously slow. Practically unusably slow.
• Notifications only have the site name in them, no client or project information so you cannot easily sort through them quickly. You have to click on each message and hunt down contextual information.
• The notification subjects are so abstract that most email clients cannot thread them.

If I have made an error, and you know of a way of correcting any of the above mentioned behavior please let me know!

Ever since I got my first powerbook I have been faithfully upgrading OS X with my academic discount. It has been historically generous, giving you $50 off the bloated over charge of $129. $79 seems like a fair charge for a point release to me. Anyhow, they have slashed the discount for leopard to a mere $13. Really this is more a slap in the face than anything else. I would rather they cut the discount altogether rather than giving up a pittance.

BRB finding four other people to split the family pack with.