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- dyranios2, on 05/14/2008, -2/+71tell her I said hello!
- innovaciones, on 05/14/2008, -4/+6810. Say anything. (text to speech from terminal)
9. Show off Stacks and Expose in slow motion.
8. Activate screen corners.
7. Display custom hard drive icons.
6. Look up words in the dictionary with a keystroke.
5. Launch applications from Spotlight.
4. Tab between all controls.
3. Zoom WAY in on a page.
2. Show the date on the menubar.
1. Double as an external drive. - benmakesmovies, on 05/14/2008, -4/+65Whoa... dugg for the craziness of the "Ctrl+Cmd+Opt+8." command! If you're on a Mac, try it!
- Shiftgood, on 05/14/2008, -6/+64LISTEN UP: This is the post you wanna read.
Everyone goes around calling Mac users 'snobs' because they like their computers. But its not just that, they tell people they like them. and thats what irritates people.
BUT.. I tell people about stuff i like all the time. like... "Dude, i know this place that has the best sandwiches." or "Dude, i found the most awesome free porn site... but dont go on it.. because its weired if were wackin to the same thing"
SO... it seems that people that dont use macs are imposing an overblown sense of "snobish" on mac users. Which really just exacerbates the problem...
And Mac users... geez dont fuel the fire. If you like your cpu, great tell your friends about making the switch, i know i did. But people dont like being told what to do and it makes them defensive and then we get this whole stupid war between the two and its just pointless. So dont push it! just let it go.
Its usually the people that attack the other side that feel insecure about their own team.
The End. - inactive, on 05/14/2008, -1/+37post pics of her
- chesscat, on 05/14/2008, -9/+4499 percent of windows pcs in the world can't run it either.
- FredFredrickson, on 05/14/2008, -2/+35Why did we need to know this?
- isaactwito, on 05/14/2008, -6/+35I love my mac. It's everything I need in a computer. It has a good set of tools for occasional scripting and coding. The interface is much better than windows or other operating systems I've used. Plus I don't game on computers. So shut up.
- matt.rubin, on 05/14/2008, -2/+30doubling as an external hard drive has always impressed me as a PC user
- TritonVision, on 05/14/2008, -2/+27dugg for the personal bond that was just established between us. Thank you for sharing.
- B345T, on 05/14/2008, -3/+28Hold the phone; you can actually display custom hard drive icons on your Mac?!
- KMartSheriff, on 05/14/2008, -3/+23Can't tell you how true this is.
Me: "I love my MacBook Pro."
Random troll: "Shut the ***** up you elitist prick! Some of us blah blah blah bitch moan whine bitch blah blah blah, God damn your such a ***** *****!"
Me: "???" - marksands07, on 05/14/2008, -2/+22I now know what I'll be doing the next time I'm in an apple store... :)
- Shiftgood, on 05/14/2008, -1/+22you dont see the irony in your statement?
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -4/+22I couple of things I want to point out about this article.
First of all, you don't need to go into Terminal to get your Mac to speak. Just open a file in Text Edit, highlight what you want the computer to read and right click. You will see an option that says "Speech."
And the thing about the hot corners. I've been using hot corners for Expose from the very beginning. It's the most intuitive way to use Expose. I don't even have to look at the corners to activate Expose. I will hit the corners using my muscle memory. I have the upper corners to show all Windows and the bottom corners to show the Desktop. It really works out very cool in the end. - jimfeet, on 05/14/2008, -1/+17@ClevelandBrown: Macs crash and get viruses all the time...
Get viruses all the time? Really? I've run Macs of virtually every flavor since 1984 (yep, really) and *never* had a virus on a Mac - ever. I won't deny it's certainly possible but, get viruses all the time? I suggest rarely. I'm not sure if this isn't more a testament to the fact that Mac is not as big a target as it is the resilience of OS X.
Crash? Yep. No argument. More than WinXP? I don't think it's more but in my experience the differences in this area are slight. I suggest if there are differences, it might be in how each is used.
BTW, I use both Macs and PC's in my business. My business is developing custom software. For Fortune 500 companies. I like XP. I like OS X. - muller, on 05/14/2008, -5/+22Well, to be fair, PCs can't run it either :)
- dukeochutney, on 05/14/2008, -25/+44run Crysis...o wait.....
- MonumentMan, on 05/14/2008, -13/+32
when did macs, which are favored by the nerd-o-rati and the college crowd, become elitist?
when did pc's, the preferred platform of plutocrats planetwide, become the platform of the puny people? - slowmotiony, on 05/14/2008, -5/+21Yes, but elitist means "Douchebag.".
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -21/+38Actually, we do a lot more than PC users, because Boot Camp gets us access to every piece of software on the market, that is, if you use PC software, which I don't.
- bdude, on 05/14/2008, -16/+33What, crash? Yes I cannot forget it can't do that.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -2/+14That was the best use of alliteration I've heard in many years.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -1/+15Too late. I already told her this morning as we were rolling out of bed.
- woofers07, on 05/14/2008, -1/+13you just blew my mind
- rings035, on 05/14/2008, -11/+24BREAKING: Macs can run Windows now
- aeiou, on 05/14/2008, -13/+32his point is that even for the very few types of software that isn't on a Mac, you can still run windows if you have to. So there really isn't anything a mac can't do.
- farkninja, on 05/14/2008, -1/+11I think Skitch is what you're looking for.
http://skitch.com/ - Pyehole, on 05/14/2008, -3/+24I love my MacBook Air. It's my first Mac and it's possibly the finest piece of computing hardware I've ever owned.
But what the *****? When will Apple ship the equivalent of MS paint functionality?!?!?! I use MS paint for work all the time (screenshots that I need to highlight things on and add text to) - insertAliasHere, on 05/14/2008, -10/+20I have OSX86 in a VM, so there really isn't anything I can't do either. Big ***** deal. No reason to be smug about it.
- Ocelot13, on 05/14/2008, -15/+25so then youre reverting back to windows... i thought windows was the reason why everyone was switching to osx in the first place?
- Asheis, on 05/14/2008, -2/+12I'm suprised by how ignorant some PC users can still be about the functioning of macs. New mac mouses have two buttons, and you can even *GASP* plug in a normal usb mouse to a mac and have it right click... scary, I know..
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -3/+14Actually there's a YouTube video of someone playing Crysis on an iMac. I'll post the link, but Digg will probably truncate it. If it doesn't work, do a search.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlwmP9kp7m0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qzglpcMBKk - FredFredrickson, on 05/14/2008, -1/+10Because everyone wants to boot up to another OS just to play games... right? Crossover doesn't work with everything, and it never will.
- hamdogger, on 05/14/2008, -4/+12@ocelot13
"but what proprietary software do macs have that isnt available on windows? the only thing i can think of is osx itself."
logic studio. i use it every day and it is one of the industry standards. thanks. - KMartSheriff, on 05/14/2008, -2/+1211. Control + Option + Command + 8 = awesome :)
- michaelnojutsu, on 05/14/2008, -4/+13Real mac users dont have to "maximize."
- saikyan, on 05/14/2008, -5/+17Is anyone else getting really tired of "elitist" being thrown around? It seems like ever since it was levied against Barack Obama every other thing is "elitist".
- nascarnate326, on 05/14/2008, -4/+13way to be stupid, its an option in leopard. all mac mice for the last couple years have right click built in.
- HypocriteDigg, on 05/14/2008, -1/+11I'm pretty sure he doesn't know what 'irony' means. He probably thinks 'it's like rain on your wedding day'.
- inactive, on 05/14/2008, -3/+10Like your mom
- tian2992, on 05/14/2008, -2/+12I don't agree, Although there were many things Apple didn't innovated, in many cases, they made them usable to the Public.
For example GUI was invented by Xerox, but Apple changed it, from a lab experiment, to a full abstraction layer for a computer, they didn't invented MP3 Players, but made them easy to use, and made an accompanying online music store (which was not the first, but revolutionary none the less), and a bunch of other great things to the Computer world. That is why Apple fans are so passionate, because Apple sells experiences, interfaces, not plain tech… (you might say they brain wash them…)
That is why, I disagree
Yet I will answer your questions,
Apple desktops include a 5 button mouse, called Mighty Mouse, It comes standard with Mac desktops, also you can plug in any USB Mouse or keyboard.
Also, you don't really need 5 buttons… it is matter of adjusting, the whole mac interface is designed to be used with 1 button (in some cases 2). On laptops you use 2-finger scroll, and it is not THAT difficut to drag a little bar through the screen… - shondell, on 05/14/2008, -2/+999.89%
- dcolley, on 05/15/2008, -1/+8With the Mac, nearly every day I learn of new things that it can do. With my PC every day, I learn new things it can't do. You can fight the inevitable, but you will lose.
- kitsua, on 05/14/2008, -3/+10Can't you set it in your preferences to ignore Apple stories? Why not just do that?
It amuses me that the majority of comments to an Apple story are usually from Mac-haters. Don't you have better things to do? - tschau, on 05/14/2008, -0/+6On the thread about bicycling on the L.A freeway earlier someone referred to people who ride bikes as "elitist." I was dumbfounded.
- Shiftgood, on 05/14/2008, -1/+8What an intelligent being you are. If people arent persuaded by your rhetoric, then i guess there really is no hope for conversion.
- bigbadgoat, on 05/14/2008, -3/+9Not too sure about the virii part. I ran a virus scan on os x for the first 6 months and never picked up so much as a piece of spyware. I figured what was the point of using my resources so needlessly and deleted, still havent run into a problem.
It does, however lock up every now and then, more so than my old windows xp laptop, so while OS X is great, it's not exactly the be-all end-all of OS's. It does have it's flaws and there are many of them. - FredFredrickson, on 05/14/2008, -17/+2411. *Yawn*
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