Two semi-whiny mac questions for the Group Mind

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1) Is there any way to keep applications from egregiously stealing focus, sometimes in damaging and annoying ways? It's bad enough that some noncritical program can just barge in and hide your work and demand a click, but sometimes it also steals your keyboard input immediately or even worse steals the foreground but doesn't give you mouse or keyboard focus, and then you have to flail and swear.

2) How much, roughly, does it cost to replace a Macbook Pro keyboard? I've typed mine to pieces and no AppleCare/warranty/wife/horse/mustache is available.

Comments

[dr-strych9.livejournal.com]

I just laughed my ass clean off. Thank you for that.

p.s. You do not want to know what kind of day I had today. Which is okay, because I'd be recycled into plant food if I posted about it. Suffice to say: this comment made it all better.

[jpeace.livejournal.com]

You're being familiar, but I don't know who you are, but what I'm reading of yours is informi-taining so I'm adding you. Hello.

[substitute.livejournal.com]

I went to high school with him. Neither of us has recovered.