Apple is hosting an online seminar on creating rich media podcasts with Final Cut Pro.
It’s a nicely paced tutorial with a lot of useful information marred only slightly by too many required fields in the registration. Interface gripe – Is anybody else tired of web forms with every country in the world included in alphabetical order and the most common countries like I don’t know, the US and the UK requiring days of scrolling. I’m sure all those users in Antarctica are happy to not scroll.
Update 03.02.2007
Martin Baker writes a nice scrolling tip to address the above
Avoid scrolling tip:
Click the menu once and release mouse. Press a letter on the keyboard and the list will scroll to it.
It’s a beginner level tutorial, but you’re likely to pick up at least a few tips. I’ve gotten to where I play this kind of stuff in the background while I work as an alternative to music. Yeah, I’m a geek.
Martin Baker said
The more annoying thing for UK users is when the list is not alphabetical but has US at the top and all other countries below. At least if it’s alphabetical then United States is usually selected by default so the UK is only a few countries before.
Avoid scrolling tip:
Click the menu once and release mouse. Press a letter on the keyboard and the list will scroll to it.
Dale said
Hey Martin,
Thanks for the tip, I think I’ll edit the post since some people don’t read the comments.
I also don’t want to come off in this post as in any way xenophobic. I just think there is a better way (grouping countries, regions, ?) to get the geographic info they want without making the user experience so bad.