Comments | arse_writes: Damn these lobsterclaw hands!

arse_writes

Damn these lobsterclaw hands!

May 17, 2007 12:23

I am now typing at you from a MacBook Pro, which was ordered for my use at the new job. By my own request ( Read more... )

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stefaroos May 17 2007, 20:43:08 UTC

congrats dude..i envy you...once I earn money - that is what I will buy. Until then...jigsaw and glue and stuff.

Where are you working?

arse_writes May 19 2007, 14:46:45 UTC

Danke! I'm working at a startup in downtown San Mateo, building a new feature-rich website in 90 days. No pressure!

digitalutopia May 17 2007, 20:46:19 UTC

I have a very hard time navigating around on a Mac. Good luck figuring it out. I usually have the students I work with show me how to do things. You know, hard stuff, like how to turn it off.

arse_writes May 19 2007, 14:45:59 UTC

The thing that's gonna bite me in the ass is switching from PC to Mac and back all the time. My poor addled brain!

toddbert May 17 2007, 21:20:00 UTC

Some other common 'windows switcher' mistakes:

-Clicking the red 'X' in a window does not shut off the program; it just closes the window. You have to actually quit.
-The green + button will only make the window large enough for it's contents to be displayed. There's no magic "make this the size of my monitor" button.
-You are *not* forced to a one-button mouse; Macs have two button support built in. You just have to configure the mouse in the control panel. The touchpad also has a bunch of configurables; you can do window scrolling with two fingers, single and double 'clicks' by tapping the pad, etc. Poke around at your settings-- most everything can be configured
-The menus are at the top of the screen. THE TOP OF THE SCREEN. Not in the window.

Do yourself a favor and download Quicksilver : quicksilver.blacktree.com . It's an app launcher/extensible interface/hard drive search tool. You'll forget how you lived without it.

arse_writes May 19 2007, 14:44:52 UTC

Holy crap! Two-finger scrolling! You Apple guys are sneaky geniuses. ;)

Thanks for the tips. So far this is a technolovefest over here.

bellegabrielle May 17 2007, 22:51:07 UTC

Wow, I ever so vaguely remember the "Apple key" from my third computer, an Apple iiE, back when I was wee and my dad was teaching me to program in Basic. (That must be where I got my lack of proper respect for developers.)

bellegabrielle May 18 2007, 02:24:14 UTC

Don't forget "open apple" vs. "closed apple"-- I don't know when that was dropped, but it was there for a while.

bellegabrielle May 18 2007, 07:36:38 UTC

oh, wow, i *totally* forgot the open and closed apple keys.