Adam Cogan

IE9 – Cool dragging of tabs (like Chrome)

By Adam Cogan in Internet Explorer January 10, 2012 0 Comment

I find it an awesome feature for organizing tab groups…. See the dotted lines
(Of course work with the VS team so the feature is consistent).

Figure: Organize your IE tab mess, by dragging out the tab… see the dotted lines

Help TFS branding

By Adam Cogan in Visual Studio Gallery November 23, 2011 0 Comment

It would be great if the TFS tools sorted together and we got the “TFS” brand a little extra juice.

Figure: Add “TFS” to the prefix of both these – and hopefully all others will follow

Outlook ‘Compact Now’ UI

By Adam Cogan in Outlook November 16, 2011 0 Comment

I know I can run ‘Compact Now’ manually. I just did some archiving and ran it now and it took about 12 hours (overnight)… however I should know that I don’t have to.

The UI should explain that this compacting happens in the background. (in the PST’s background idle task).
The UI should so that it is currently running.
That way you know if the performance problems that you are experiencing are related to compaction.
Gee Whizzzz?I should not have to ask to show what is going on with my PC?.
I am just asking for a ‘Polite UI’
The UI should show that this is primarily about space savings, not improving performance.
After I delete a lot of emails, I should see something different that indicates space can be saved.

And if the UI is good, after I install Outlook 2007 SP2, and since things changed, (where you allowed the internal free space to grow – for a trade-off to allow for better locality of writes), I would see this in the UI.

Figure: This UI needs 3 features added

Show attached emails as normal attachments

By Adam Cogan in iPad, iPhone September 13, 2011 0 Comment

An email with an attachments (of an .msg) doesn’t show as attachments.
Grrrrr.

iPads/iPhones actually embed the text at the bottom of the email – but I can’t imagine anyone expecting that behavior.

Figure: This attachment does not show on an iPhone or iPad

Make extra views discoverable

By Adam Cogan in iPhone September 2, 2011 0 Comment

For example the iPhone shows album covers and the actual list of songs that you can flip through? but you would be lucky to find this.

I found this hard to find… I never knew there was a cool new view when you turn the iPhone on the side (This is not a very discoverable feature from Mr Jobs).

Figure: The normal view – give me some indication that there is a new view on the side

Figure: Turn it on the side an you have an interactive 3D flip view

Make it easy to add a screen shot into an email

By Adam Cogan in iPad, iPhone August 25, 2011 0 Comment

The experience should be:

Take a screen shot (currently works – using the 2 button approach)
Pop a screen and ask if you want that on the clipboard
Open an email and Paste (currently works)
Convert the email to HTML (currently it shows beautifully inline when you view on an iPhone, but someone in OWA only sees a ‘Plain Text’ email with 2 attachments

IE – Help me know the slow or noisy tab

By Adam Cogan in Internet Explorer August 12, 2011 0 Comment

I hate not knowing which tab is playing sound and which one is making my PC slow

Add 2 more columns:

Sound playing now
Processor %

Figure: Add 2 more columns

Help me update quickly

By Adam Cogan in Apple July 30, 2011 0 Comment

#suggestion for #apple – just updated 2 #ipads and an #iphone. This is an unnecessary 593MB http://yfrog.com/kiw8bjp

— Adam Cogan [SSW] (@AdamCogan) July 30, 2011