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I wrote this back in early 2007, and it still applies: Four things OS X can learn from Windows 95 http://www.tinyapps.org/weblog/mac/200703210700_four_things_... You would think that after all these years, Apple would have copied these simple yet essential abilities from Windows 95: 1. In Spotlight's search result window, files should be able to be deleted, copied, moved, renamed, etc. 2. Spotlight should offer an "I…
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Ditto, but I can't recommend Fusion enough. Tried Parallels, and had too many problems.
VirtualBox is very polished virtualization software released under GPL. I have run this on my MPB for a year with Debian, and XP as clients. It runs great. http://www.virtualbox.org/
One thing I miss from Windows-- the ability to easily access any menu item from the keyboard (not just items that have a defined keyboard shortcut). Yes, it can be done, but not "out of the box" using individual keystrokes to navigate each level of the hierarchy.
The best way to quickly access a menu item is to hit CMD+?. Then just type in the name of the menu item. That, IMO, is a much faster way of accessing the menu than the ALT+foo shortcuts from Windows-land.
I had tons of hardware problems. It’s just that I could be an outlier, these kinds of stories are always so freaking anecdotal and not really a help when deciding what to buy. My screen failed and was exchanged. Then my main board failed and was exchanged. Now everything seems to be working fine. Oh, yeah. I nearly forgot, my DVD drive was unable to burn anything so it was exchanged. The exchanged drive was also unab…
Not an outlier.. I have had three hardware problems with my MBP: 1) Hard drive had IO errors and was replaced (2 months) 2) One of my keys stopped working. (9 months) 3) The right fan died. (10 months) The last company I worked at had a small fleet of MPB's and hardware problems were a regular occurrence. Far more frequent than when I was at an IBM/thinkpad shop, but drastically less than when I worked with Dells. Je…
Apple has Balkanized their OS's API. Most software out there only supports the latest release. The rest only supports two releases back. In fact with 10.6's release imminent it is hard to find software that supports older than 10.4 anymore.
I wrote this back in early 2007, and it still applies: Four things OS X can learn from Windows 95 http://www.tinyapps.org/weblog/mac/200703210700_four_things_... You would think that after all these years, Apple would have copied these simple yet essential abilities from Windows 95: 1. In Spotlight's search result window, files should be able to be deleted, copied, moved, renamed, etc. 2. Spotlight should offer an "I…
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A friend of mine just got his first mac recently, and he mentioned this same complaint to me - I had no idea, because I almost never use the Finder for file management. (I assumed you could do cut & paste) I always just use 'mv', etc. from a terminal. So this is genuine curiosity - is there something that other people do for which a Finder window and cut and paste is better/faster/less prone to mistakes, or is it jus…
You can copy and paste, but not cut and paste. Moving with the mouse isn't so bad though -- you can select the files and start dragging them on top of folders. If you hover over a folder for a few seconds, it will open, and then you can hover over another folder to open it, etc., until you get to the place you want to be.
If you're an Emacs user with (3!) decades old-finger habits like me, Mac OS X is a dream come true--you can customize the Cocoa text environment to be a quite decent subset of Emacs, available in most system apps now (most importantly, Safari). Oops, this is an anti-annoyance. ;-)