{"id":1002,"date":"2009-12-23T00:01:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T08:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=1002"},"modified":"2013-02-10T13:45:33","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T20:45:33","slug":"behold-the-pushpin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/?p=1002","title":{"rendered":"Behold the Pushpin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/pushpin.png\" alt=\"pushpin\" title=\"pushpin\" width=\"72\" height=\"34\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1004\" \/><br \/>\nA graphical computer goober you&#8217;re gonna have to get used to is the pushpin. It&#8217;s showing up all over the place.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nAs with its real-life counterpart, the pushpin is used to make one thing stick to another. For the computer, the pushpin is used to save items in a list, such as a list of files.<\/p>\n<p>For example, consider the recent file list from Word:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/recent-files.word_.png\" alt=\"recent-files.word\" title=\"recent-files.word\" width=\"316\" height=\"313\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/recent-files.word_.png 316w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/recent-files.word_-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/recent-files.word_-300x297.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 100vw, 316px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The pushpin icons appear on the right side of the file list. By clicking a pushpin, you make an item in the list &#8220;stick.&#8221; So, from above, if you click the pushpin by <code>teen stoner movie.docx<\/code>, then that item stays on the list until you click the pushpin again.<\/p>\n<p>I first witnessed pushpins when using a Sunstation once. That memory is vague. I do, however, remember seeing them in a Linux distro once upon a time. I though the pushpin was unique, but I don&#8217;t remember using them much.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find pushpins all over, especially in Windows 7: The Start menu now features pushpins on the recently-opened file lists. In fact, I like the pushpin metaphor in Windows 7 especially. For example, the old Quick Launch toolbar is gone and now, logically, you merely pushpin things to the taskbar. That makes so much more sense.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Administrative Note:<\/strong> There will be no blog post on December 25. Merry Christmas everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A graphical computer goober you&#8217;re gonna have to get used to is the pushpin. It&#8217;s showing up all over the place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-1002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1002"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wambooli.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}