If you’ve ever worked with SAP, the chances are you have been “amazed” by its GUI more than once.

Besides a usability experience dating back from the first half of the previous century, the default sounds on every interaction with the GUI can be very anoying (at a minimum).

How to disable it:

• Fire up the GUI and sign in.
• On the main toolbar, click the last icon (Adjust local layout – what did you expect).
• In the dropdown menu, select the second option (Configure New Visual Design… – of course).
• Select Sound – Off.

Once again, it proved you should really stay away from the alcohol. Looking for something like “Settings” under de main “System” menu… you s*****.

I must admit, I usually don’t have time to watch movies so the site may have been brand new. I tried to have a look at which movies run in my local cinema and when you click on the listing of a theater, you get a page like this.

While one would expect this is a (X)HTML listing, their web company actually managed to develop this in Flash. Let’s assume they had a solid reason for this. Maybe they were on the edge of bankruptcy and Adobe promised them a bailout in return of a commitment to Flash applications. Must be something like that.

Anyway, I want to be forgiving and look past the use of Flash. But the worst thing is it could have gone by without my notice if it didn’t try to middle-click the entries in the list. Because it’s Flash, it causes a scroll cursor to display instead of opening the movie in a new tab!

I am probably not the only person that uses new tabs a lot to compare links. Even if there are only a limited number of people with a middle-click-autism like me, it’s a sad sad sad thing for Kinepolis.

Since I still don’t know which movie I want to see, let’s have a look at what their competitors have to offer.