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- rockefeller, on 10/12/2007, -10/+30If you switch from Mac to Windows, the terrorists win.
- dshPls, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I'm a windows user with not one bad word about osx or macs...if I had a mac, I'd be just as happy. I just can't refuse a new intel processor and crysis tho. All in all, the iLife suite is very cool, I wouldnt find much functionality in it, but that doesnt mean it sucks.
- Cannon13, on 10/12/2007, -4/+17It's pretty dumb to assume that everyone buying a mac is getting a MacBook Pro.
"Windows users love their right click button! It just doesn’t make sense to have a computer without it! Well… Macs don’t!"
Umm, actually they do. System preferences and choose secondary button for the right hand side. - Nahor, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12Re: 1. Forward Delete
Ctrl+d is better. In fact, almost everywhere on Mac the basic emac key bindings work (ctrl+f, ctrl+b, ctrl+n, ctrl+p, ctrl+a, ctrl+e). One of the reasons why I dig OS X so much. - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10/sarcasm/Yeah, it's the hardest thing ever, I mean five minutes out of the box and my wife had made her first short movie and a comic strip using bits and pieces of photos and move we had taken with the built in camera! Five minutes! That's outrageous! Where is the user-friendly hour of setup I am used to?!/sarcasm/
Pass the crack pipe please. - BitBucket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Once again somebody promoting their blog with some lame "tips" makes it to the front page.
- trieste, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6What elitist attitude? We're perfectly willing to mix with the riff-raff, the hoi polloi, the great unwashed, the little people, the common folk.
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8"hat's all well and good. So to be able to navigate efficiently using a mouse, I have to buy a "Mighty Mouse" bluetooth enabled "wonder?""
No. Any $12 USB mouse will work just fine.
"It just seems to me that to get anything out of the system, you must have pre-memorized the keyboard shortcuts."
No, you don't.
"And as someone said, that is not an efficient model for modern computing."
Keyboard shortcuts are an efficient way to use a computer.
"And requiring someone to buy the new "Wireless Mighty Mouse" for $70 is not a valid replacement for easy browsing using the mouse."
Right. That's why they invented $12 USB mice.
"It's just you. If this is a work or public computer, I'm not going to spend money to get something that should already be included."
Then hold down the apple key. How incompetant are you? - potentato, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Cool, I'm a legend! Switched to a G5 tower about 2 months ago.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Command S saves in most apps. Just look for the keyboard shortcuts in the menus of the application you're using.
- firehydra2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Most of the commands are the same, except you hit the apple command key instead of the control key (command + s to save, command + w to close windows, etc...). You do command + q to quit (not alt + f4).
- stayputnik, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5another urban legend right here. thanks to bootcamp, i'll never buy another windows machine.
- stealthboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4> "What I hate about it Mac OS X it's the elitist attitude their users have."
It's not our fault that our computer is far superior than all others. - z3rr0, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Don't forget this for MacBook* users:
Apple > System Preferences > Keyboard and Mouse > Trackpad > [ √ ] Place two fingers on trackpad and click button for secondary click
Works really well for you second button feinds. - flyinbuddha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I'm an urban legend too. 13 years in IT repairing PCs, now I own my own shop... my personal laptop is an iBook G4 I picked up on the cheap when everyone was rushing to upgrade last spring. I love it. My 2 home PCs are P4s, but when they come up for replacement, they're going to be Macs.
I fix windows all day long - when I get home I just want something that works. - tizz66, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It is intuitive. If you read the article, most of the hints are 'go to the mouse/keyboard preferences to do this with the mouse/keyboard'. That sounds pretty intuitive to me.
- NSMike, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@aclements -
I can navigate through Windows completely without a mouse, using keyboard shortcuts and conventional techniques. Everything is DESIGNED to work without a mouse. It's just not an intuitive interface for modern computing. - jrbrewin, on 10/12/2007, -9/+12last time i checked most people had more than 1 stumpy finger on their hands.
Fact remains, if you use something, and get use out of it, and then it gets taken away, you are bound to ask 'why!?'. - NoirDigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I switch before the whole "Intel in a Mac" thing, and its been great...i still use PCs for gaming, MSN(lol), and developing in asp .NET. But everything else I do on a Mac.
But for me I hope Mac would stay under the radar, so hackers and such won't take any notice...hence the reason why Macs have all but three viruses (that have no effect). - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I'm an urban legend too. The only thing I regret since getting a Mac is installing XP on it because it's just sitting there and wasting my hard disk space. I'm not a PC gamer, and I seriously have no reason to boot to it - I thought I would be relying on it much more, but OS X does all I need and more.
- brentzilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I always wanted to be an urban legend. Owner of a MacBook and PC desktop. The desktop is soon to be replaced by a Mac Pro. That being said, I am a Windows developer. Hopefully I can replace that too someday.
- caseysousa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Once you get your Macbook, install KeyCue and then you can hold down the command key in any app to display all of the available key combos for that app.
- tumult, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5A few more good ones, off of the top of my head:
You can get to the preferences in almost every application by using command-comma
Command-tilde (technically command-backtick) will rotate through the individual windows within the frontmost application, and command-tab will rotate through all open applications
In many applications, command-period will stop whatever that program is actively doing. In Terminal, it acts as an alternate to the UNIX-standard ctrl-c.
Command-shift-3 takes a screenshot and saves it to your desktop as a PNG. Alternatively, Command-shift-4 will change your cursor to a crosshair and allow to drag a selection box to make a screenshot of. Other numbers will give you other types of screenshots, such as a screenshot of the frontmost window only.
If a program locks up, you can force quit it from the dock by clicking and holding on its icon. When the menu appears (it will have Quit as one of the options) hold down the option key and it will change to Force Quit. If Force Quitting it doesn't work, try it two more times. On the third try, it will exterminate with extreme prejudice (kill -9 for you UNIX types). Alternatively, open Terminal and type killall and then the application name.
You can open files and folders via the keyboard in Finder by using command-down arrow. You can step up to the parent of the folder you're in by using command-up arrow. Enter/return will let you rename the selected file.
Command-L will jump to the address bar in almost every OS X browser (same as ctrl-L in Windows/Linux)
Place your cursor over any word in any application and press Command-Ctrl-D to instantly pop up a mini-dictionary/thesaurus with that word. This doesn't work in Firefox or Camino (they don't use OS X's text engine.)
You can eject almost any media/drive by selecting it in Finder and using Command-E.
When using Spotlight, if you hold command and press return, the highlighted item will be revealed in Finder instead of being opened.
You can slow down most of OS X's special effects (like the minimize effect) by holding shift
You can easily change any file's icon. First, get info on it (select it in Finder and press Command-i), then click on the icon in the info panel. From here, you can paste in an image or an icon you have in the clipboard with Command-V. You can copy icons the same way by using Command-C. Note that some applications might change their icon back. - KissTheRing, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I don't think there is much demand for that
- biff198, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Um, I am all for Macs, but this artical sounds like it was written by a 9 year old. There are spelling errors and stupid information all over the place. And the fact that this was written for the MBP only is stupid. There ARE other intel macs out there.
"So the solution: Fn Delete. Simple!"
First of all, for anyone that is confused out there, the "Fn" key is a function key, which, when held down, will change the function of some of the other buttons.
"Windows users love their right click button! It just doesn%u2019t make sense to have a computer without it! Well, Macs don't!"
Could have fooled me. Kind of confusing since I have been right-clicking since the minute that I plugged in a mouse with a right button. And I didn't have to go to system preferences to set it up. All I did was plug it in, and it worked.
"Clicking Control Option Command 8 will turn the screen in some sort of high contrast mode, but more like an X-ray screen! Try it, it%u2019s fun!"
OMG OMG OMG who cares! Why not include a more useful one!? I have one. How about, when a dialog box comes up, perhaps when you try to quit an application without saving what you have been working on, it will often have three options: Don't Save, Cancel, and Save. Save is highlighted, so if you hit enter, it saves it. Everyone knows this, but a lot of people don't realize that if you hit Ctrl D, hit chooses Don't Save. I haven't tested this, but I would assume that it also works with Cancel (probably Ctrl C). - Smoov, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6If Vista is a huge flop--a very distinct possibilty--it could push many people to the Mac or Linux camps.
However Microsoft's biggest threat comes from browser-based applications. This is why they seek to retard progress in the browser at every turn. They have failed to support SVG, xForms and other technologies in IE7, and without IE support these things can never become true standards.
Microsoft is the largest single impediment to the world moving to a much more web-centric computing model. - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Also, you can pinch or expand your two fingers to zomm in things like google maps and I think photoshhop and other zooming applications.
- WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Here was the final working script:
on open UnwantedFiles
set file_count to the count of UnwantedFiles
set delete_confirm to display dialog "Please confirm that you want to delete the following " & file_count & " file(s) or folder(s): " & return & UnwantedFiles buttons {"Delete", "Cancel"} default button "Delete"
set confirm_choice to button returned of delete_confirm
if confirm_choice is equal to "Delete" then
repeat with aFile in UnwantedFiles
set posix_path to POSIX path of aFile
do shell script "rm -rf '" & posix_path & "'"
end repeat
end if
end open
I've put a mirror of the compiled script (as an application - called Incinerator) here:
http://homepage.mac.com/wiseweasel/Incinerator.zip
You can drop files to be deleted onto Incinerator for direct disposal without the trash. - WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Oh, and here was the finalized drop script. I added a formatting part at the beginning to format the files to delete as a nice list of filenames in the confirmation dialog:
on open UnwantedFiles
set filelist to "" as string
set x to 1
repeat number of items in UnwantedFiles times
tell application "Finder"
set theFile to item x of UnwantedFiles
set theName to name of theFile
set filelist to (filelist & return & theName)
end tell
set x to x + 1
end repeat
set file_count to the count of UnwantedFiles
set delete_confirm to display dialog "Please confirm that you want to delete the following " & file_count & " file(s) or folder(s): " & return & filelist buttons {"Delete", "Cancel"} default button "Delete"
set confirm_choice to button returned of delete_confirm
if confirm_choice is equal to "Delete" then
repeat with aFile in UnwantedFiles
set posix_path to POSIX path of aFile
do shell script "rm -rf '" & posix_path & "'"
end repeat
end if
end open
I updated my mirror with the new version:
http://homepage.mac.com/wiseweasel/Incinerator.zip - halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9@unreal32
Cool, I'm an urban Legend. (I still use a PC at work, but my home computer is now a Mac.) - Hyperreality, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Nahor, thanks I learned something new! Although, it didn't work on Firefox's google search bar when I tried, but works elsewhere! Thanks for the tip!
- WiseWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2OK, here's the automator workflow I made to accomplish the same task:
http://homepage.mac.com/wiseweasel/IncinerateWorkflow.zip
Enjoy, and feel free to redistribute... - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The funny thing to me is that people are complaining about not knowing how to use shortcuts on a Mac. People are sayign this proves a Mac is less user-friendly.
Folk I can tell you right now, the majority of Windows users don't knwo the shortcuts for windows either. You know how many people I've surprised by using alt+tab or ctrl+s?
Just becaus eyou don't understand something, no matter how good you think you are does not make it bad or useless.
Just because of proximity: I wasn't refering to you manofaction. - apocalizer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@noahhoward:
That's insulting to NRA members... NRA is for RIFLES not 9MM's. - databasecowboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually crop circles are used by aliens to point to Windows users who switched to Macs since their organs are the tastiest (they have the $$$ to be well fed)
- Scottish, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3noahhoward: The Mighty Mouse only has 4 buttons, one of which is extremely hard to press accurately (the side squeezy).
- joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It is.
- noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Ah well, too late to change it.
offTopic: I thought the NRA covered all firearms? - Matadon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@Hyperreality
That's because Firefox/Mozilla made a Very Stupid Decision when they wrote the Mac port; rather than sticking to the Carbon API, or even using wxWindows, for their interface, they decided to use QT. The big downside of QT is that it /emulates/ widgets under OS X, rather than just acting as an API bridge to native widgets. What this boils down to is that, in Firefox on OS X, you don't get any of the goodies that come 'for free', like spell checking, Emacs key bindings, text-to-speech, dictionary lookup, etc.
Firefox also doesn't integrate into the Keychain.
Camino is a browser based on the Gecko engine, but with (mostly) native OS X widgets, so you might want to give that a go. Also, Safari is still a pretty decent browser, and I don't feel any pain after switching. - NoirDigg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2if people want to right-click on a Mac, buy a mouse with two buttons on it...wouldn't this make sense or is it just me.
I am currently working at a law firm and it is all Macs, and it is ***** great...if I wasn't programming all day I would be bored out of my freckin mind...and mind u that most of the employees are PC users outside of work and they don't have any problems with Macs as long as they have a two-button mouse. - noahhoward, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Should be the elitist attitude SOME users have. All camps have them.
Don't tell me you've never noticed the Windows idiots running around screaming "fanboy" anytime somethign positive is said about a Mac. - vprice509, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Hey, check out a shareware app called KeyCue. Go here:
http://www.macility.com/products/keycue/
I have been using Mac for a couple years now and still find KeyCue useful. Thanks to having a laptop as my main machine I have finally learned some keyboard shortcuts. I never thought I would say this, but I don't even like to use a mouse anymore. - joeyjojo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If anyone NEEDS instructions to switch between Windows and OSX (regardless of the direction), they should perhaps step back a bit and take a 'basics to computers 101' course.
- jeffyjones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I think he's just making a funny. :)
Proud owner of a MBP and Windows developer. - manofaction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow--many thanks for the script. It makes my Mac feel even more at home!
- oOLiquidNightOo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1my favorite keystroke: ctrl + cmd (apple key) + d = popup dictionary in safari, definitions pop up as you move your curser.
- punkrockxtian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Hmm, i've never heard of a bog before.
- brentzilla, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I am a Mac user + Windows developer. I do feel sorry for my Windows friends on occassion but I would never be truly elitist towards them. Although, if someone tells me my Mac sucks (which plenty of Windows users will try to do...and I'M the elitist??) I will ask them to set up a new printer and tell me how many dialog boxes they have to jump through to get it to function completely. Then we repeat with digital camera. And so on with other devices. At the end of the day, I'm at zero dialog boxes and he's still going through the "Wizard". Sorry, I'll take true plug and play anyday.
- Tiemmothi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1apple . (period key) will not save the file if your at a save dialog and takes you back to the program.
apple s saves
and apple d will not save the file and let the program finish quiting..
esc also stops the save and takes you back to the program. - Kelmon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1To be honest, I really didn't notice anything "funky" when I switched to a Mac from XP a few years back. The only "difference" that I encountered and that I absolutely love is the "maximise" function. With Windows it doesn't matter how small the document is that you are reading, or how huge your monitor is, when you click the Maximise button that sucker is going to fill your entire screen. With OS X the maximise button only makes the document big enough to show all it's contents so it's a much more efficient use of the available screen space, particularly in an era where 1024*768 resolution is pretty much a thing of the past.
The one thing that the article seemed to miss is "drag and drop". You can drag and drop practically anything to make stuff happen and it's an amazingly natural way of working. It frankly frustrates the hell out of me that drag and drop support isn't as much in Windows since I'm forced to use XP at work. -
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