Bloggerrhea

Hmm, Danger needs to install a spell-checking option in for their email client. Speaking of which [bad pun alert], blogging with thumb boards while drunk is dangerous. (kids, take Chris’ advice)

Here’s a run down of the current top issues on the wishlist, from a user’s perspective:

  • There need to be some mail filters. Really really really. (to be able to route different messages in different folders or to dump them)
  • There needs to be find functionality, at least in email, preferably system-wide, like the Palm
  • Address book lookups should be possible from anywhere, also like the Palm
  • You know, those Palm guys were pretty smart. OS adjustable font-sizes (or better yet, dynamic zooming) would be good. While digging through Palm’s bag of tricks, a clipboard wouldn’t be too bad of an idea either
  • There should be a central alert panel to set the alerts for all the apps. These alerts should be fully configurable and interchange between the Calendar apps, etc.
  • Being able to set real Alarms would be nice. You know, like Big Clock or something.
  • AIM client needs to be able to go into auto-away mode automatically when the keys are locked (timestamps would also be nice)
  • The browser needs to support sideway scrolling (see below)
  • The browser should respect CSS media types, render better, or allow a ‘text only’ render mode (and store it as a preference for each site, if that’s the case). There are too many sites that just don’t work.

Those are my big annoyances right now. The hiptop does so much right though. Overall, it’s excellent. I haven’t been this impressed with a gadget/tool since the original Pilot came out.