Take control of Command-S

Raise your right hand if you’ve ever had an application crash on you? Okay now keep it raised if it’s happened and you didn’t save your work? Good, now keep it raised if you felt like picking up your computer and hurling it out the window? Excellent. Now keep it raised if you’ve actually hurled it out the window? Right well I think you have a problem. You should see someone about that.

The screensnap above was taken 15 minutes ago, at the moment I realised that Illustrator was about to crash on me and that I hadn’t saved what I was doing. It’s that dreadful few seconds when you see the spinning beachball and realise what you see on the screen is about to wave goodbye forever unless you do something about it NOW. So I did what any fool would do and frantically hit Shift-Command-3, otherwise known as a full screen capture, (in this case my screensnap didn’t help much, due to the image being zoomed in so far).

So. What is the point of all this? Well I guess it’s part advice for you, and part therapy for me. Okay it’s mostly therapy for me. If I didn’t write this blog post, I’d probably have a broken window to deal with.