The Good, the bad, and the ugly (+pictures!)
The Good:
- Nice sleek interface, pretty much what I have been seeing in screenshots all this time.
- “Plug and play” seems to work. My mouse worked perfectly as soon as I stuck in the wireless USB dongle.
- The thing that comes up with the remote. It’s cool.
The bad:
- I want to be able to easily switch windows. When they are all piling up under each other, it is damn near impossible.
- I want to be able to do something easy which mnimizes all windows, so that I can look at my nice purty desktop.
- How do I switch Firefox profiles?
The Ugly:
- I took a bunch of pictures when I was opening the MBP and thought to myself as I was doing it “Hey, this is perfect, a mac should be great at making all of them ready for posting on the web!” So I tranferred all the (75) pictures over to the mac, and moved them all into the Images directory. So far, so good. Open up iPhoto and they are all there. Yay. Now, how the hell do I re-size all of them? EDIT: Okay, well I finally found a good program (iResize) to resize all of them. They can all be found here(note: there are three pages).
- Installations. I think it’s because I am coming over from a PC and used to things being overcomplicated. But I don’t get what to drag into the apps folder.
Also, recommend me some widgets!
May 3rd, 2006 at 5:34 pm
the bad
1. use expose, ask carl how to do it…cmd something
if you didnt know, expose organizes all of your open windows on your screen at once, so you can find what you want
2. somewhere in the preferences for os x there is an option to set it up so that when you mouse goes to one of the 4 corners different things happen. as in go to desktop and open up dashboard and many others
3. i am totally stumped on that
May 4th, 2006 at 7:39 am
Firefox profiles:
On Linux or Mac, start Firefox with the the -profilemanager switch, e.g. ./firefox -profilemanager (this assumes that you’re in the firefox directory).
http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/profile#new
May 4th, 2006 at 7:50 am
Ya, I have absolutely no clue how to do that.
May 4th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
1. Expose. hit F9 to shrink and view all windows, F10 for only the windows of the current application, and F11 to shuffle them all out the way to access your desktop.
2. To clear your workspace and view your desktop without using expose, hold down option and command keys, and click on the finder icon. That’s the shortcut to “hide others”. (likewise, if you have a bunch of applications open, but you only want to see say the address book, option-command click the address book, it comes to the front and all other apps get hidden.
May 4th, 2006 at 7:55 pm
Finding windows: for the love of god, USE EXPOSÉ. :p I have mine set up with hot-corners.
Top-left: dashboard
Top-right: show app windows
Bottom-left: show all windows
Bottom-right: show desktop
That way it’s a simple mouse-sweep to get to another window or the desktop. I don’t really like having to press function keys to show windows, because that requires my left hand to move completely, as well as requiring me to actually look at the keyboard.
Installing Apps: there’s usually 3 types of installations –
1.) Drag/drop. Easiest of them all, just drag the application into your applications folder. Think of this like a standalone .exe file on the windows side. You could put it anywhere, but it makes sense to go with the rest of your applications. All you have to do is run the program.
2.) Package. Usually for system-affecting apps. These use the standard package installer process which guides you through the process.
3.) Full installation program. This is for apps like photoshop and other big apps with several support files. This most resembles what you’re used to, and there really aren’t that many that use this installation method nowadays.
One of the biggest things that you’ll get used to is the fact that there’s no registry in OS X. There’s nothing system-related that an application really affects. All of an application’s preferences are all stored in a preferences folder in your user directory (these will also remain if the program is removed or you upgrade, allowing you to keep the same preferences between different versions).
There’s also no real need for an uninstallation program because there’s practically nothing that requires it. The only thing that’s left after you delete an application is its preference files, which take up so little space that it’s not noticeable in the least (and since you’re not running the application, there’s no way they’re using system resources).
What I think is the most beautiful thing about OS X’s whole system though is its ability to deal with on-the-fly renaming. It doesn’t matter if a file is already open — you can rename it whenever you want, and all applications it’s open in will update to reflect that. This also applies to applications in the dock. You can rename / move the applications around all you want, and the dock links will still work.
General advice: try to forget all the little roadblocks you know windows has, and look at OS X as a completely fresh operating system. It works for you, not the other way around.
May 5th, 2006 at 3:12 pm
Hot corners with expose was exactly what I was looking for! Thanks a million!
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