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SourKraut posted:Yeah, I mean I can't blame them, given that their consumer-focused products is what's making them a BOATLOAD of money and allowing them to build a giant flying saucer for their new corporate headquarters, but still, it's somewhat sad to see their professional products taking the bullet for their success. This is true. A coworker of mine explained it from their perspective. Who should you write software for? The pros, who are aging stalwarts of their tools, or the general public, who are the YouTube-era media makers of the future?
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# ¿ Jul 22, 2011 00:16 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 20:26 |
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When has Pro Tools ever not forced you to upgrade to get compatibility? I shouldn't poke fun. MOTU doesn't have DP7 ready for Lion yet either.
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# ¿ Jul 22, 2011 01:46 |
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lelandjs posted:Are you comfortable with changes that are awkward and annoying at first, but are better in the long run? Go with Lion. I'm not sure some of these are better in the long run. Apple normally understands minimal design = maximum functionality. So when I hear 'only an extra step' I can't help but wonder if anything was actually gained. I can't stand Windows because you're constantly clicking one extra button, choosing one more option, closing one more alert than is actually warranted. quote:If you close the windows before you quit, it shouldn't pop them back open when you open the program again. Ugghghhh. I have a feeling I'm going to hate resuming apps.
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# ¿ Jul 27, 2011 23:45 |
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Martytoof posted:And yeah, disappearing scrollbars aren't my cup of tea. Scrollbars provide an important sense of context in large documents and data sets I wasn't going to mention it, but I just found out that Xcode puts a little line where an error / warning shows up in the scroll bar area. It's great to shove the scroll bar right to the error. The resume app tips are good to know, tough.
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# ¿ Jul 28, 2011 03:29 |
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Lion looks like fun, but I think I speak for all the Snow Leopard holdouts when I say
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# ¿ Aug 4, 2011 15:31 |
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BlueFreshMarlboro posted:I think I'm going to go back to OS 9 on my computer. It's just like Lion
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# ¿ Aug 4, 2011 19:09 |
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Martytoof posted:Anyone having serious issues with 10.7 Spotlight not finding files it should, even though you've reindexed the drive? What exactly are you searching for? Spotlight has always been unable to find strings in the middle of file names.
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# ¿ Aug 4, 2011 19:42 |
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Martytoof posted:I don't know about that, it seems to find some stuff just fine: I guess I meant in the middle of a word. Spaces and dashes split the file name. What you have happened to me a long time ago (I think I was on Tiger, actually). No clue how it got fixed.
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# ¿ Aug 4, 2011 19:56 |
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Martytoof posted:I like to pretend everything before 10.3 didn't exist. Whatever, man. Jaguar had Core Graphics. Hardware accelerated window drawing meant it was no longer a slideshow to do anything in the Finder.
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# ¿ Aug 13, 2011 03:26 |
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1997 posted:Well, there's a few apps that will let you modify what shows up in launchpad without deleting the app. The names are escaping me right now though... Personally, if I need to get 3rd party software to make the system work the way I want, I either learn to love the system or don't use that portion altogether. Sometimes it's painful (I loving hate Spotlight), but I'm constantly on different machines and I don't want to rely on something that isn't part of the OS.
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# ¿ Sep 5, 2011 00:00 |
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It's suddenly taking 10 seconds to wake from sleep, which feels really long on a 2010 MBP. Anyone able to decipher this log to see what's wrong?
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# ¿ Sep 18, 2011 02:53 |
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Does anyone know how to reference a page number in Pages? I'm making a table of contents for a user guide, and there has to be a better way to keep track of what page something is on than manually. Edit: holy poo poo I'm retarded. There is a Table of Contents under Insert. Edit 2: I take it back. There are other areas where I want to link the reader to another section [see Section 5.1, p. ###]. Is there any way to make the ### pull the page number of whatever section I'm referencing? lord funk fucked around with this message at 16:47 on Oct 8, 2011 |
# ¿ Oct 8, 2011 16:16 |
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Martytoof posted:If Apple is adamant about bringing some mobile paradigms over to MacOS X, I wish they'd let us click on the titlebar to scroll a window's contents to the top. I find myself wishing I could do that all the time rather than spin my mousewheel. That doesn't make sense for a window the same way it does for a UIView, though. The titlebar is already a handle to move the window around. Of course, I'm still mad they hide the scrollbars in Lion.
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# ¿ Oct 8, 2011 18:37 |
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wolffenstein posted:System Preferences > General > Show Scroll Bars. Well derp. For some reason I though they were just gone.
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# ¿ Oct 8, 2011 18:56 |
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My PIN is 4826 posted:Also, they ran out of cats. What?
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# ¿ Oct 8, 2011 22:46 |
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Is it normal to press Caps Lock and not have it do anything until you hit it a second time? 10.6, MBP, WTF.
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# ¿ Oct 18, 2011 01:50 |
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coldplay chiptunes posted:Yeah, it's definitely a timed thing. Quick taps don't trigger it. Cool, at least I know now. It's been driving me nuts. At least typing like a Grandma will fix it.
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# ¿ Oct 18, 2011 02:14 |
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Postal posted:Did anyone keep theirs that way or did everyone revert back to the old style? REVERT. Mother-in-law just got a Macbook Air, and I don't like a ton of the changes they made to the Finder. Disclaimer: I know these can be worked around, but remember that inexperienced users tend to stick with what's given to them. For starters, it's nearly impossible to find your actual hard drive unless you know what to look for. I wanted to show where all her files actually were (the hard disk), but it wasn't in the sidebar at all, and of course it isn't on the Desktop either. But instead we get 'All Your Files?' Try explaining that no, there aren't two copies of your pictures, that's actually a folder of aliases blah blah. And why exactly is the Library folder hidden in your Home folder? Is that really so Top Secret that it can't be visible from the start? Also, apps that auto-open and revert themselves confuse the crap out of her. And again, I know I could tinker with all these things, but it's not my computer. I'm just there for support.
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2011 00:27 |
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coldplay chiptunes posted:Why the heck were you insistent on showing her the actual contents of the drive when you could have just shown her the user folder (which is where everything a normal user puts on their drive ends up, and oh look it's also the first thing that's shown when you open a finder window). Because sometimes you need to explain how things work so an older user can get it? And her home folder wasn't even listed in the sidebar by default. Again, I know these things can be worked around. I just don't like the defaults Apple chose. Re: hidden library folder. I don't get this one. It's just too arbitrarily hidden.
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2011 02:02 |
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Neurophonic posted:Why is it arbitrary? How often do you really need to go into the folder? I think it's arbitrary because the Library is a part of the User documents hierarchy just like the Documents folder, Downloads, Music, etc. It's the place where helper files for your user's applications go. Audio plug-ins, for example. Why create the need for an extra, out-of-place step (come on, Go To Folder?) to open it? But I'm a dinosaur, and change bothers me.
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# ¿ Nov 28, 2011 02:12 |
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Whatever it is, there's no excuse. I just don't understand how this issue has lasted so long. I can stream HD video while I compile code, but if I want a few frames of a 256-color image to play smoothly, I'm out of luck.
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# ¿ Dec 1, 2011 00:11 |
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Choadmaster posted:Great, no more white flashes. Whyyyyyyy. Now I can't unsee it.
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# ¿ Dec 2, 2011 06:34 |
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Is there a way to get Safari to search the middle of words when you do a Find (using 10.7)? It's now acting like Spotlight, where if you search for 'eapot' it won't find the word 'teapot.' Fuuuck. This is one of my biggest pet peeves.
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# ¿ Jan 30, 2012 18:27 |
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:Transmission is the only torrent client, MacTheRipper is still the best disc ripping software, etc. Well I feel like a scrub. Next you're going to say there's a better option than Stuffit Expander X.
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2012 00:46 |
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:The Unarchiver, keka, etc. Take your pick. Do they even make Stuffit anymore?
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# ¿ Feb 10, 2012 01:31 |
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fleshweasel posted:It seems funny to cut the "Mac" from "Mac OS X" while still having the startup disk named "Macintosh HD" by default. Yeah, but, they're doing their best to hide that drive from users as much as possible, so I'm not surprised they're ignoring it.
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# ¿ Feb 16, 2012 23:48 |
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Manky posted:Right on, fair enough. It's only an alt-cmd-d away, after all. To be honest, the writing is on the wall about OS X becoming iOS X. Apple is probably more concerned about unifying the two of them than it is about preserving 'Mac.'
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2012 21:00 |
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fleshweasel posted:If you think the plan is to make iOS and OS X one and the same, you're not paying attention. Nah, not 'one and the same.' But very similar to the point of just using one name for both systems? Probably. Here's something along those lines: you can't delete the iMessages beta once you install it. You get an error about it being part of the system.
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2012 22:54 |
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Yep. Echoing all this. I haven't used the fullscreen feature at all because of it.
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# ¿ Feb 19, 2012 19:24 |
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Re: what to do with Lion, if I didn't have these preferences reverted I would smash my computer to bits: Get key repeat back: defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false Show the ~/Library folder in the Finder: chflags nohidden ~/Library Disable window animations: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool NO
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2012 00:17 |
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Nice. The big one for me would be getting the Snow Leopard version of TextEdit back. The new TextEdit in Lion is a big awkward step in a direction no one can figure out.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2012 02:22 |
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japtor posted:(but seriously I'm just wondering what the "big awkward step" is referring to) It seems like Apple wants to move away from the idea of saving a file manually. Getting rid of 'Save As' is retarded (although some people will defend the move, any way you slice it you are adding more steps to get the same result). When you quit, it doesn't ask you to save your unchanged documents. They are just set to re-open the next time you open TextEdit. Yes, I have the 'Re-open documents' option un-checked in the System Prefs. And the big one: using Command-Delete instead of Command-D to choose the 'Don't Save' option in the save dialog. It's an unnecessary change. It's unergonomic. Also the little action-sheet version of the dialog doesn't respond to keyboard actions half the time. Find / Replace is no longer a separate window. Adds an extra click every time you do a Find to get the Replace area to show up. This is sperg-y as hell, but I was in love with the simplicity of TextEdit. I use it dozens of times a day. This little crap adds up.
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# ¿ Mar 14, 2012 20:55 |
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Gordon Cole posted:You can bring up find+replace just as fast as regular find by using Command+Option+F instead of Command+F. I also recently found out about Command-E to send something to the Find field without putting it in the actual clipboard. Very useful.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2012 02:22 |
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All of my code documents (.h/.m files) appear under that heading, for what it's worth.
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# ¿ Mar 26, 2012 03:29 |
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Cyberduck has been acting up (won't move / copy files, error after error). What do you guys recommend for a good FTP client?
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# ¿ Mar 31, 2012 16:06 |
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Bob Morales posted:I hated Finder in the Classic days. I hated Finder when I first used OS X. I still hate it to this loving day. I really hate the multiple-pane view thing the most. Everything I hate about the Finder comes from their attempts to make it more like Windows Explorer. OperatorAce posted:Mountain Lion... is the OS I feared OS X would become. I've been using OS X since it came out, and starkly defended it. However, I'm to the point now where I really dislike how it's turning out. On my Apple products, it's slower than the alternatives and is becoming less user friendly somehow. There is precedent for being worried. 10.5 Leopard was slow as poo poo. It was utterly useless on anything but the newest, fastest systems. So I might stick with Lion until 10.8: Snow Mountain Lion.
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2012 19:32 |
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Maybe I'm too much a classic Mac guy, but I always felt the real benefit of the Finder was popping a bunch of separate windows for different folders. You can close the ones you want, but it gives you multiple entry points to folders that are miles away from each other in the directory tree. And it's just like real folders! As for the Findxplorer mockup, I think some of you need to rediscover List view: Edit: how do I undo this big ol' attached image...
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# ¿ Apr 7, 2012 14:43 |
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Snow Leopard is Intel only, so Leopard. However, use Tiger if you can. Leopard will run like a dog.
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# ¿ Apr 7, 2012 15:34 |
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Martytoof posted:I can see what you mean, but I have an aversion to having multiple windows open when the same thing could be accomplished in one. That's just me though. I'm all for this, but personally I find drilling down and up in one window is more time consuming than multiple windows that just stay put.
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# ¿ Apr 7, 2012 16:51 |
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# ¿ Apr 17, 2024 20:26 |
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You can drag the Calc result out of Spotlight and it creates a text clipping with the answer. This is the only good thing I will ever say about Spotlight.
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# ¿ Apr 14, 2012 17:44 |