Mac OS X Lion 10.7

Until it acts like OS 9 finder (complete w/drawers and stationery pads that work) it is dead to me

so in full screen mode, if I fling my mouse cursor to the top (where those infinite pixels are) and let it rest there, the menu bar pops down. but if I fling my cursor down to the bottom (where my dock is hiding), I have to keep on continuing downward movement in order to get the dock to come up. yeah?

whoa i just hit the worg key command and my shit went buck, the dashboard editing mode came up behind everything so that the add widget viewer was on the bottom of the screen but the active widgets were behind chrome w/only their little x's for removal showing AND i was in some weird fullscreen mode where the top menu bar was hidden - i got really confused, mashed my keyboard and ended up restarting

wtf that was terrifying

something similar happened to me last week after I exited a vid chat in ichat, had to hold the power button down

YOU WERE STARING IN2 TH MAINFRAME

i was just in terminal trying to rip out the fuckin google talk plugin

i did not succeed

rm . . . de

sudo rm -fr /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin

ty!

the special characters window is more useful x1000

now i can edit the id3 tags for princes Sign ☮ The Times with ease

lol

any other tips? i'm just getting my way around it. this is the first time i've really used gestures and they are awesome. i want gestures for EVERYTHING, like window closing, for instance. switching tabs. etc

if you flip off your mac it detects it using FaceTime™ and formats itself...wasting all of your data

Guys I realize this marks me out as tremendously pedestrian but I like Launchpad... a LOT

Mainly because of the sleek fucking little gesture used to invoke it

lol i turned that shit off

I love Launchpad. I don't have a touchpad, but I assigned F1 to it and put all my key applications on the first page. This is useful for me because I keep my dock hidden. So I just hit F1 and select whatever needs opening.

I use Spotlight to launch most apps :/

I hate spotlight

I hate spotlight

― dan selzer, Friday, 14 October 2011 08:33 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://virturl.com/pile/art/faces/disgust.jpg

btw Launchpad is fiddly and ill-thought out and woefully inconsistent and disgustingly savage

Once again, AA, we have to disagree, because something that works perfectly fine and simply for me is frustrating to you.

The thing I don't get about hating Spotlight is that it's completely and totally out of your way unless you need it (although so is Launchpad now that I think about it)

I initially hated spotlight because it's key command conflicted with very basic Adobe key commands, then because it's indexing took forever. Now I just don't need it...because I don't have to search for things if I already know where they are.

gestures are incredibly useful. they nullify most of the shit i would use keyboard shortcuts to do. mission control is also key. i tried really hard to drink the spaces/expose kool-aid but that drug just wasn't working. the double-tap gesture for mc on my magic mouse is freakin delightful. launchpad is useful when i need it. i mostly use spotlight for launching tho.

its been hard to parse whats good about what bc I'm coming off of 6 yrs on a G4, now on an i7. I'm pretty overwhelmed.

app store is kinda clutch. I'm glad i can give 99¢ to the developer of I Love Stars w/ two clicks. über universal apps would be good so i don't have to buy pages twice.

tighter integration w/ iOS would be good. like being able to move anything from one to the other.

i have a feeling that apples going to rule the 21st century.

I initially hated spotlight because it's key command conflicted with very basic Adobe key commands, then because it's indexing took forever.

Ah, I see what you mean. You can change the keyboard shortcut iirc, and I think you can even reduce the indexing by telling it to not index anything.

I've done both.

i tried really hard to drink the spaces/expose kool-aid but that drug just wasn't working.

I've done away with Spaces altogether, which I HATED doing because I've been using virtual desktops for maybe 15 years. I have a few apps in full screen mode but it's a compromise, and if ever I want to e.g. drag music into itunes I have to un-full screen it.

Just on Spotlight, I use it for everything all the time because I'm a hacky terminal user from way back, and find it easier and faster to type part of the name of something than go looking for it in folders/menus (although I do recognise that that's just me)

why do you have to un-fullscreen iTunes? you can drag and hold files at the edge of the screen to move over to the full screen app.

wow I had no idea, cheers

i rarely ever go looking for some random file. usually what i need is in an app thats already open or one of the folders on the dock which i clean out regularly. so i use spotlight only to launch apps that i use occasionally.

spotlight is great for launching apps

I tried spotlight out for 2 minutes in tiger and have never used it since

its good for searching for things

ha. tiger in spotlight blew chunks all over grandmas new dress.

er, spotlight in tiger

I have reserved my top right INFINITE PIXEL to expose though, launchpad is much better for app launching

I have been using Spotlight equivalents in Win (Launchy) and Ubuntu (gnome-do) for years. Could not live without them.

hot corner users, dire barbarians each one

upper-left for show desktop is useful

I have never had an upper left corner. OMG

I made it into "post I Miss You youtube"

upper left is apple menu, you monster

bottom left and right are useful.

if the only launching you ever do with spotlight is just running applications it's just about fine (although the amount of crap i have to scroll through to launch itunes after typing "it" is kind of amazing), but alfred or launchbar are _way_ better for everything spotlight does except actual searching.

aa, if you are a hacky terminal user you should try one of those, or quicksilver

upper-left for show desktop is useful

― shaane, Friday, 14 October 2011 09:19 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Not judging but what do you use show desktop for? I never ever need to show my desktop.

I installed alfred once but all it did was return snide erudite one-liners

I should definitely look at Alfred, been hearing good things recently

i have never used alfred tbf. i hear it mentioned. launchbar all the way.

they keep threatening to resurrect quicksilver but afaict the og developer is basically insane and its open source community is not much better.