What are your app annoyances?

"Lack of full screen playback in Qt. C'mon apple!"

http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/mac911/2005/08/fullscreen/index.php

Anyway, mine would be not being able to sort my music in iTunes the way I want to (can't sort by last name of artist, can't sort chronologically more specifically than year - a lot of bands put out more than one album a year!). I've finally resorted to ordering my tracks in the comments and sorting it that way, but I can't sort by comments without viewing them in the window, which is so unsightly!

1. MS Word crashes
2. Inability to disable useless textures (brushed metal, wood, etc). I don't need these on my screen. They take up RAM, and they look very busy. I'd like if there were a 'minimalist' setting in the prefs.
3. After opening my Powerbook, sometimes it will wake up, and then not even a couple of seconds later go to sleep after I've just opened it. It's easy enough to wake up by hitting a key on the keyboard, but still annoying.
4. Logic may open GB files, but it doesn't always open them correctly.
5. GB is a resource hog (but that could be because the virtual instruments are so good).
6. Dragging images directly over to MS Word results in a file that PC's can't read (the images are missing but text is still there). You have to save the file as jpg, gif or bmp, then drag it into the Word file. This is a pain in the ass.
7. Entourage sucks as a replacement for Outlook.

1) Having the "show all" option in Spotlight at the top of the list. I want it at the bottom. I mainly using spotlight to launch an application and I seem to hit Show All a lot by mistake.

2) Safari eating my RAM. After about 15-20 minutes or so, in Activity Monitor, Safari is listed as using about 100-200MB of RAM (I have 1.25GB in my 12" PB) and Safari begins to slow to a crawl, especially after browsing a lot of photos on Flickr. Anyone have any tips?

Most irritating annoyances
1. download sites that ask me to choose where to download from
why do I care? show me the effective current transfer rate and I could.
2. MS Word's apparently random style changes
I've now turned off any automatic anythings which is most pleasant.
3. Finder ignoring the Finder preferences
4. search engines that ignore my carefully constructed search term
such as Help

- Not only not having full screen view in QuickTime, but getting a popup asking you to upgrade when you try to select full screen.
- The iTMS arrow in iTunes, I always click over there by mistake when browsing the library.

The fact that for at least six months, Quicksilver has SBODed on me, hogging the CPU until I force it to quit. I like a tidy dock, so now I'm over to Spotlight, which is much much stupider. Every now and then I fire up Quicksilver again, wait for it to catalogue, and wait some more to see whether the CPU usage will go down. If it goes down a little, I try a search, which is so slow (over 2 seconds just to pull up the window) that it's sadly faster for me to click around in the Finder for the app. It breaks my heart, as I really loved that program.

The Finder bug where clicking the top or bottom visible item in a list-view window will scroll by some odd amount, AND it will select everything between the item you really clicked and the item now at the top or bottom of the window. The annoyance is compounded if you double-click instead of just click because all those items will be opened. Apps launching all over the place, folders flying open, it's mayhem! Seems like it started in 10.4.something. Don't know if it's been fixed in 10.4.8.

Xcode: Well, tons and tons of things. It's slowly becoming usable.

My other annoyances are with users: Mac users that call the "command key" the "apple key". Technical Mac people that say "grayed out" instead of "disabled". Mac users that say "drop down menu" instead of "popup menu".

#37: I had the same problem...Just tab over to the drop down box and type in 'tex' for texas and it highlights it. I too used to tap T twice, but then I found that out.

How hitting the letter of a command in a dialogue box is flaky. sometimes it works (ie putting computer to sleep or restarting) but not for saving dcouments, or in safari when I don't want to remember the password.

While making an online purchase with a Mac, why do you have to remove your hands from the keyboard to choose your State manually from a list with both Safari and Firefox?

On a PC, you simply press the first letter of the State until the desired state is selected (ie. T twice for Texas) in both Firefox and IE.