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What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to day?

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Re: What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to day?

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Post by progLiker »

vesan wrote: post #60

Finder is pretty horrible. Keyboard shortcuts are all over the place and overall I find Finder really unintuitive.

Here is a list over all keyboard shortcuts in Mac Os X : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343 It's hard to memorize all this, but I put them into a learning by repetition program named Genius.App. Genius can be found here: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/13938

I enter only those shortcuts that I tend to need from whatever App I use. I spend the odd 10 minutes each day repeating keystrokes. The shortcuts seem to stick in the grey matter after a while.

Re: What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to day?

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Post by cschneid »

weaksauce wrote: post #67
cliffdickerson wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to keep pushing this software, but SizeUp allows for a keyboard shortcut to do full size windows (for any window) and then snap back to previous size, plus a whole mess of other great features. Its literally the app that kept me using OS X after switching from Linux. And its name your own price licensing. http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/

That looks like a great piece of software! I have been bugged by the lack of maximize for a while now. This looks like it will fit the bill nicely. Out of curiosity, what is a typical "donation" to the developer in this style of licensing?

He wrote a blog post (which I think was submitted here) that details the first week or two of sales. http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/blog/files/a_week_of_sizeu...

Re: What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to day?

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Post by weaksauce »

cliffdickerson wrote: post #79
weaksauce wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That looks like a great piece of software! I have been bugged by the lack of maximize for a while now. This looks like it will fit the bill nicely. Out of curiosity, what is a typical "donation" to the developer in this style of licensing?

He asks for $2.99 min so his paypal fees are payed, etc. I gave a bit more and got a personal thank you. It does have a demo mode as well.

The posts from the people that are releasing the sales data are extremely interesting to me. Thanks!

As an aside, does anyone know of an agregator of blog posts concerning sales data for ISV's?

Re: What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to day?

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Post by stonemetal »

cpr wrote: post #50
stonemetal wrote: post #24

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.

What's the point of running older OSes?

I have a power pc mac so 10.5 is the end of the road. Maybe I don't feel like shelling out 130 to apple for nothing.

Re: What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to day?

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Post by stonemetal »

teilo wrote: post #71
stonemetal wrote: post #24

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.

Windows does the same thing. DirectX 10 is only available on Vista, for example (Unless of course you hack around this, using something like Alky, but then again, with enough work the same could be done in OS X).

For games sure, but most software in the windows world still lists win98 as a supported platform.

Re: What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to day?

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Post by megaduck »

tsuraan wrote: post #17

Running linux on a Mac laptop is a bit of a pain, mostly because of the keyboard/touchpad. The control and alt keys are in strange places (at least on my powerbook), and having only one button on the mouse is pretty irritating when you're not in OSX. I actually replaced my powerbook with a Linux laptop primarily for those two reasons; I'm always working in a terminal, so not having reasonably placed control and alt k…

I do most of my web development using the terminal and emacs, so there's nothing intrinsic to OS X that's an advantage there.

The real advantage of OS X is that the rest of the system gets the heck out of your way so that you can get work done. There's a million tiny little touches in the system that make life easier, so you spend more time doing actual development instead of wrestling with the email attachment that Aunt Edna sent you.

It's also the most popular *NIX out there, outnumbering everything else by an order of magnitude (or two). That means that virtually all recent UNIX software has been either been tested on the Mac, or written on one. That's nice.

Re: What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to day?

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Post by megaduck »

brk wrote: post #2

Why would you get an MBP just to install any other OS on it? I've owned a couple (15" MBP currently), and I think there is more durable hardware out there that can be had cheaper. I don't really have any annoyances with OSX or the MBP hardware. That is not to say it is perfect, just that I knew what to expect going in, and that there is no all around perfect OS or hardware. I do find the overall annoyances much less…

More durable hardware is hard to come by. The Apple stuff is usually pretty sturdy. There's exceptions, but I generally trust Apple hardware over Dell, HP, Toshiba, Acer, etc. The Thinkpads used to be as good or better, but standards have declined somewhat since Lenovo took over the line.

For me, the real winner is AppleCare. Apple has the best support that I've encountered for consumer hardware. It's also valid anywhere in the world, which is a lifesaver if you do a lot of international traveling.

Re: What are some common Mac annoyances that you face day to day?

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Post by moe »

megaduck wrote: post #88
tsuraan wrote: post #17

Running linux on a Mac laptop is a bit of a pain, mostly because of the keyboard/touchpad. The control and alt keys are in strange places (at least on my powerbook), and having only one button on the mouse is pretty irritating when you're not in OSX. I actually replaced my powerbook with a Linux laptop primarily for those two reasons; I'm always working in a terminal, so not having reasonably placed control and alt k…

I do most of my web development using the terminal and emacs, so there's nothing intrinsic to OS X that's an advantage there. The real advantage of OS X is that the rest of the system gets the heck out of your way so that you can get work done. There's a million tiny little touches in the system that make life easier, so you spend more time doing actual development instead of wrestling with the email attachment that…

It's also the most popular NIX out there, outnumbering everything else by an order of magnitude (or two). That means that virtually all recent UNIX software has been either been tested on the Mac, or written on one. That's nice.

Sorry to rain on your parade but both of these statements are wrong.

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