John Gruber links to some non-busy alternatives to the wallpapers that come with iOS 4. They're nice, but I just took a picture with my finger over the camera lens and used the resulting solid black as my home screen background.
Previously I was using the blackboard one (the fourth option in the top row) and it was non-distracting enough, but now for some reason (maybe the folder icons) I feel the need for something even less distracting.
Nik Fletcher, in reference to an alert in iOS 4 that says "Click OK to confirm…":
As pointed out by Brandon Walkin this still isn’t great: using ‘Click’ on a touch-screen device is flat-out wrong…
Yeah, "tap" would be better, but I don't think it's any worse than using "dial" for touch-tone or touch-screen phones.
This disagreement aside, I do like all the little things Nik noticed.
As you probably know, Apple has made the 2010 WWDC videos available free via iTunes U.
I'm really, really happy about this, and I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but one thing has bugged me about the WWDC videos over the years. When I'm scanning them on my iPhone, it's hard to tell what each video is about because the names all begin with "Session ###", and often a long word like "Introduction".
I'll check whether iOS 4 handles this better, whether by using a smaller font, wrapping the video name across two lines, allowing the list to be displayed in landscape mode, or whatever. If not, I'll submit an enhancement request.
A workaround might be to write a script that renames all the videos. I wouldn't be surprised if such a script exists already. Things the script could do:
I wouldn't want to shorten the long words too much because that would affect searchability using the iTunes search field. Unfortunately iTunes search does not look in the file's Comments field.
A general tool for shortening names would help with other videos too. Here's how iTunes displays a list of videos to sync to my iDevice. There's no way for me to see the full name:
UPDATE: I filed rdar://8122296. You can see it on Open Radar here.