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Some people in the forum may recall that I have been pretty negative about OS X in here.

My macbook is still in the household so I dusted it off a couple of weeks ago and plugged it into my 24" monitor.

I moved the dock to the left-hand side, which has helped me with screen sapce a lot, as I have a 16:9 monitor.

My mate is a big Mac fan, think he is IT Manager for a company which uses Macs, he has helped me setup somethings to make it easy and taught me some keyboard shortcuts.


The point of the post, well I just wanted to say I can now use it for soemthing. I think I didnt like OSX was because the 13" screen on my macbook is to small :p

May consider buying an iMac in 2011/2012 :)
 
I am new to OS X and while it is inferior to Windows 7 [;)] I think it is a fantastic experience.

Take OSX's drag and drop installation, multi-touch support and a few other bits and bobs and glue it all into Windows 8 and I think I will orgasm. :p

Warning: This post contains humour. Die hard Apple-fanbois should wear safety goggles at all times.
 
Just found another cool feature which helps a lot!!!!

On the dock, say IU have 5 firefox windows open on Desktop area 2, if I hold my left button down on the icon it flicks to the firefox windows and highlights them all to select the one I want. :)
 
SiriusB said:
I am new to OS X and while it is inferior to Windows 7 [;)] I think it is a fantastic experience.

Take OSX's drag and drop installation, multi-touch support and a few other bits and bobs and glue it all into Windows 8 and I think I will orgasm. :p

Warning: This post contains humour. Die hard Apple-fanbois should wear safety goggles at all times.
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I'm sure decent multi-touch will be in Windows 8 Home Standard Edition but drag and drop installation will only be in Windows 8 Small Business Premium Edition. ;)
 
Oxy said:
oh like doubling tapping for right click and dragging etc?

My white macbook does it.
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Yup, older ones support two fingers, like for right click but the newer ones have support for 3 and 4 fingers as well, so you can activate Expose or switch betweens Spaces.
 
sorta, but more advanced. i.e. you can swipe to go back and forwards in browsers, go through photos, rotate or zoom items etc etc. Like an ipad/phone but on your trackpad. I'm not familiar with the new macbooks but if you go in to trackpad preferences you should be able to see everything you can do with it and turn on/off accordingly.
 
On a serious note OSX, I think, really lacks in file and folder management. For example, I cannot move a file by cutting and pasting it elsewhere. I have to drag it. Which is a pain as I am faster using the keyboard. Copying is fine, but I don't always want to copy. Creating a new file in a directory doesn't exist either - I have to go via the application, paste/write the text I want, hit save, navigate where I want it and... in Windows it's much simpler.

Though as I say in my first post OS X is very new to me, so I am sure I will find ways around these sorts of things. Spotlight is my friend at the moment. A heavy Windows 7 user I would die without the quick search in the Start Menu for starting programs!
 
SiriusB said:
On a serious note OSX, I think, really lacks in file and folder management. For example, I cannot move a file by cutting and pasting it elsewhere. I have to drag it. Which is a pain as I am faster using the keyboard. Copying is fine, but I don't always want to copy. Creating a new file in a directory doesn't exist either - I have to go via the application, paste/write the text I want, hit save, navigate where I want it and... in Windows it's much simpler.

Though as I say in my first post OS X is very new to me, so I am sure I will find ways around these sorts of things. Spotlight is my friend at the moment. A heavy Windows 7 user I would die without the quick search in the Start Menu for starting programs!
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If you like spotlight, try quicksilver from here. Think of it like spotlight on steroids.

http://quicksilver.en.softonic.com/mac
 
Oxy said:
Just found another cool feature which helps a lot!!!!

On the dock, say IU have 5 firefox windows open on Desktop area 2, if I hold my left button down on the icon it flicks to the firefox windows and highlights them all to select the one I want. :)
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OH MY GOD!!!!!! Oxy you have solved the year long confusion from me of how osx handles that!!!! Have an internet cookie as my mac is now complete :D

Oh and apology accepted, go hug your mac
 
Johnz0r said:
If you like spotlight, try quicksilver from here. Think of it like spotlight on steroids.

http://quicksilver.en.softonic.com/mac
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I am playing around with QuickSilver actually. I quite like it. :)

Here's a question - any app/setting for having properly persistent mapped file shares?

Windows: Map Network Drive

That gets you a mapping that persists until you get rid of it. A mapping that is accessible via Save/Open dialogs on all programs. A mapping that can handle the computer restarting, sleeping, hibernating or even the remote server going offline.

OSX: Connect to server

That gets you a mapping that doesn't persist. Is not always accessible via Open/Save dialogs unless you add it to Finder, where it will promptly disappear whenever you restart or sleep. Or when the server goes offline. Or completely random; whenever OS X gets bored.

You can add it to your logon items, but then you get a load of windows popping up at the start, and is useless as sleep causes it to vanish.

Any ideas? Am I missing something really obvious?
 
pingwing said:
OH MY GOD!!!!!! Oxy you have solved the year long confusion from me of how osx handles that!!!! Have an internet cookie as my mac is now complete :D

Oh and apology accepted, go hug your mac
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yeh I know, it was pure luck as well, was on ts3 and clicked my push to talk button which then did some magic like I described.

This issue was my biggest issue with OSX, which I have now fixed.

Only thing left thats really annoying is cut and paste as siruisB describes.

Also pingwing you should be able to answer this, can I auto mount NFS shares in OSX?
 
Ooo do you know how to get to the NFS shares in osx to start with and which version of osx are you running?? (turns out the nfs stuff keeps getting moved)

Iv got a good site with the explanation of how to do it in 10.6 I just havnt got a box set up to test it out... Anyway have a read of this http://kampmeier.com/chris/blog/?p=43 as that should be how to do it (again I think its something I havnt had to try on osx yet...)
 
Can i also say sorry....


...to all tho people that still have to use Windows.....truly and deeply...I feel sorry...for you all.
 
Right in the disk utility under file there is an option for NFS where you can put in the location of it. You press the plus sign to add a new one, give it the location and a folder to mount too (and extra parameters but thats something to google as i cant remember the different effects of them just now). Im half assuming that at the end of this osx does it automatically...

If not heres the nfs man page (for osx 10.6.3 but its all the same under 10.6) which covers the extra bit to do it in fstab (still have fond memories of the f-stab as the solution to some of these problems) http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/mount_nfs.8.html
 
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