So this is a completely random topic, but does anyone have a computing habit (or program/plugin) they can't live without, but that everyone else seems to think is more annoying than a ten-hour loop of the Hamster Dance? I need a few more
I run my work computer's audio through a third-party USB device (a Polycom Communicator).
I work in tech support, and the program that sends the calls to the computer, displays the queue, etc makes this annoying sound every time a call drops into queue, and another annoying sound every ten seconds or so for as long as one or more calls are waiting in the queue. There is no way to disable this sound and it's irritating as all get-out. I have to mute my computer altogether to not hear it....and I don't want to do that because I have music playing constantly on my computer
I have, however, discovered that if I run my audio through the communicator, turn the volume on iTunes and on the computer all the way up, and the main computer volume way down, I can listen to music at a reasonable volume, and barely hear the program noises.
I've renamed my "my computer" icon to "Binkley's Anxiety Closet" (waits to see if anyone catches the reference).
I set my scrolling marquee screen saver to say "Your Ad Here".
I always set my clock to display 24-hour time (this applies to any clock in my control with 24-hour option)
I used to do tech support for Apple. So I had, of course, an Apple computer for my work machine (want one for my personal computer at home...don't have the money...sigh...some day...) Hot corners and keys set to display all windows, turn on screen saver, clear desktop and access dashboard (was really funny when someone else would try to do something on my computer because my hot corners and keys weren't the default...). I would change my dock settings around on occasion based on my use and how the current arrangement was working out for me. My screen saver was a rotating bunch of Banana Jr. 6000 cartoons (again, waiting to see if anyone gets the reference)...I love all the little settings and thigns that you could mess with on Apple computers. Scroll-arrow placement, highlight color, all the little features of Safari...
Oh yeah...and there was stickies. I had about fifty sets of premade case notes for different problems each on their own sticky, coded by color (printer issues blue, internet issues pink, hardware issues yellow etc)
One computer habit that I *really* wish carried over to non-digital things...the ability to do a ctrl-f or command-f text search. Oh, my life would be so happy if hard copy had a search feature...lol