RANT – I hate how applications steal the focus from other applications. Examples:
Instant Messenger: I’m typing away in another program, someone I’m me, and the next thing you know, all of my latest words go directly to them.
Browser Popups: Don’t take me away from what I’m doing, let me choose to switch over.
Loading Applications: You load a new application (say, Microsoft Outlook) and you go back to whatever else you’re doing. When Outlook finishes loading, it decides, you should now be looking at Outlook.
Somebody (Microsoft) — write some software that will not allow applications to steal my focus. I know TweakUI has a checkbox that say “Prevent Applications from taking Focus”, but on all my computers, I have yet to get it to consistently work!
I’m done now….