Basic Frustrations
1. I finally found the setting to make each new Finder window open in a separate window. I didn't see it anywhere in the "System Preferences" section that is a very stripped down version of the tool called "Control Panel" that used to appear underneath the brightly colored Apple logo at the top of the screen. It was inside of a preferences setting for Finder, available in the menu of the Finder.
2. Why can't Apple support ctrl-v, ctrl-x and ctrl-c for clipboard functions? I will accept any good answer for this not being turned on by default, given how much some of the other aspects of using the machine have become PC-like... cough cough commandline cough cough...
3. Stylish colored fringing on all fonts with any degree of verticalness! After some help from other Mac victims, I managed to get this problem solved. Seems Macintosh stopped telling people that they ought to restart applications in order for changes to take effect.
This has the potential to be a great feature, it makes an amazing positive difference when implemented on diagonal lines, its just new and not all the way done yet.
If you pick the wrong font, like for example one with lots of really narrow letters with vertical line...
There is also more info here:
http://community.livejournal.com/appleworld/1101176.html
4. I scanned a picture, an 8.5x11 at a good resolution. When I do a "Get Info", it says the picture is 3231x2454 pixels. OK, thats about right for what I want. Here's the problem: When I open it in Apple's image viewer, and click "Actual Size", it shows me a vastly reduced image. I'd guess its about 800x600 in size at the most!
This is zoomed way the fuck out, not actual size!. Its not even actual size on the monitor the view is so small! I expect actual size to show me a pixel-per-pixel sized view. Not "Whatever view is convenient to leave a stylish 1.5 inch grey border between the edge of the window and the image you are trying to view at full resolution.
UPDATE: Preview - Preferences - Images - Respect image DPI for "Actual Size" .... Just uncheck it and the problem is solved, and the system runs in pixel-per-pixel mode.
2. Why can't Apple support ctrl-v, ctrl-x and ctrl-c for clipboard functions? I will accept any good answer for this not being turned on by default, given how much some of the other aspects of using the machine have become PC-like... cough cough commandline cough cough...
3. Stylish colored fringing on all fonts with any degree of verticalness! After some help from other Mac victims, I managed to get this problem solved. Seems Macintosh stopped telling people that they ought to restart applications in order for changes to take effect.
This has the potential to be a great feature, it makes an amazing positive difference when implemented on diagonal lines, its just new and not all the way done yet.
If you pick the wrong font, like for example one with lots of really narrow letters with vertical line...
There is also more info here:
http://community.livejournal.com/appleworld/1101176.html
4. I scanned a picture, an 8.5x11 at a good resolution. When I do a "Get Info", it says the picture is 3231x2454 pixels. OK, thats about right for what I want. Here's the problem: When I open it in Apple's image viewer, and click "Actual Size", it shows me a vastly reduced image. I'd guess its about 800x600 in size at the most!
This is zoomed way the fuck out, not actual size!. Its not even actual size on the monitor the view is so small! I expect actual size to show me a pixel-per-pixel sized view. Not "Whatever view is convenient to leave a stylish 1.5 inch grey border between the edge of the window and the image you are trying to view at full resolution.
UPDATE: Preview - Preferences - Images - Respect image DPI for "Actual Size" .... Just uncheck it and the problem is solved, and the system runs in pixel-per-pixel mode.