Speech Recognition Anyone?
I want to talk to my computer
ala ala Dictate for Mac which needs work I want an Apple Version!
I want to talk to my computer
ala ala Dictate for Mac which needs work I want an Apple Version!
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Mac OS 10.7 Lion - Wishlist
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Cut and Paste
Right now I need to move 400GB from one directory to another on my harddrive, and its gonna take 1-2 hour copying and deleting folders, but it would've taken 10 seconds with a cut command.
Things like this makes me mad! 😡
Please Apple! Do something about this!
Right now I need to move 400GB from one directory to another on my harddrive, and its gonna take 1-2 hour copying and deleting folders, but it would've taken 10 seconds with a cut command.
Things like this makes me mad! 😡
Please Apple! Do something about this!
roadbloc
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lewis82
macrumors 68000
It's true, but you have to agree to the fact that cut and paste would be both easy to implement and very useful.
EDIT: just to make sure everyone understands my point of view... I'm not an ex Windows user complaining. The first computer my parents bought 10 years ago was a Mac. I've always used them, and love them, but I don't see why cut and paste is left out.
roadbloc
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djrod
macrumors 65816
djrod
macrumors 65816
Seriously, nobody knew how to cut and paste in Mac os? 😕
Edit: You can install this to cut and paste using the keyboard :
http://m.youtube.com/index?desktop_uri=/&gl=ES#/watch?xl=xl_blazer&v=YP4KpmCZ558
DeeGee48
macrumors regular
Letter To A Friend
Hello All,
Just sent this letter to a friend; thought I'd share it with you as well.
DeeGee 48
_________
JonBil,
It is thought that tomorrow's OS X Lion preview might include a 'revolutionary new feature' Apple themselves said they were working on a year ago, when they advertised for a software engineer to work on the project. What could it be? There are hints of iOS interface elements and scrolling behaviors making their way into this release, and maybe an iOS layer that pops up a' la Dashboard. Resolution independence is also mentioned. But these things hardly seem 'revolutionary'. So what could it be?
We'll find out tomorrow I guess, but I had a neat thought today of a revolutionary feature---to say the least!---AND the means to accomplish it. How about ..... that neat AVATAR data grab trick? As I thought about this I thought, "That's impossible". Then, almost as quickly I realized "No it isn't either!". Here's how Apple could do it.
In the movie, the 'screens' were holographic. Hollow. Just air. That's the element we don't have right now; the thing that makes it seem impossible. But we CAN do it with the screen technology we DO have: touchscreens. Imagine two Bluetooth-equipped devices. A Mac and an iPad. Or two iPads (or Macs, or iPhones, etc). You walk in here with your iPad while I'm typing this e-mail. I say, "What'er ya doin'?" You reply, "Watching the new Harryhausen trailer for "The 8th Voyage of Sinbad". Oooooh, Bose! Naturally, I want to see it NOW! It's almost done running on your iPad, but...
With a flick of the back of your hand, or a five-finger swipe off the bezel you "push" the trailer over to my Mac via Bluetooth. That particular gesture does it, just as other gestures do other particular things. Instantaneously it:
1) throws a 'screen shot' via Bluetooth to my Mac which completely covers my e-mail;
2) launches Quicktime, which is the program you are using to view it;
3) instantaneously downloads the four-minute trailer from your iPad in a split-second (like Quicktime Pro does now with Jobs' 2-hour presentations);
4) and then replaces the static 'screen shot' by playing the trailer from the beginning!
In this way, the 'revolutionary new feature'---'Cameron Acquisition'---could be up and running! With faster chips, and the new, speedier OS X, the whole above proceedure could be initiated/completed in say, 4 or 5 seconds! And, it works equally well with anything: Pages, PowerPoint, Quickbooks, whatever. Well, whata ya think? Should I send this to His Steveness, or are they already on it???
DeeGee 🙂
Sent From My Power Mac G-4
(G4 'Digital Audio', 2001)
Get A Mac!
A HAPPY MEMBER OF THE APPLE UNIVERSE SINCE 1984 🙂
Hello All,
Just sent this letter to a friend; thought I'd share it with you as well.
DeeGee 48
_________
JonBil,
It is thought that tomorrow's OS X Lion preview might include a 'revolutionary new feature' Apple themselves said they were working on a year ago, when they advertised for a software engineer to work on the project. What could it be? There are hints of iOS interface elements and scrolling behaviors making their way into this release, and maybe an iOS layer that pops up a' la Dashboard. Resolution independence is also mentioned. But these things hardly seem 'revolutionary'. So what could it be?
We'll find out tomorrow I guess, but I had a neat thought today of a revolutionary feature---to say the least!---AND the means to accomplish it. How about ..... that neat AVATAR data grab trick? As I thought about this I thought, "That's impossible". Then, almost as quickly I realized "No it isn't either!". Here's how Apple could do it.
In the movie, the 'screens' were holographic. Hollow. Just air. That's the element we don't have right now; the thing that makes it seem impossible. But we CAN do it with the screen technology we DO have: touchscreens. Imagine two Bluetooth-equipped devices. A Mac and an iPad. Or two iPads (or Macs, or iPhones, etc). You walk in here with your iPad while I'm typing this e-mail. I say, "What'er ya doin'?" You reply, "Watching the new Harryhausen trailer for "The 8th Voyage of Sinbad". Oooooh, Bose! Naturally, I want to see it NOW! It's almost done running on your iPad, but...
With a flick of the back of your hand, or a five-finger swipe off the bezel you "push" the trailer over to my Mac via Bluetooth. That particular gesture does it, just as other gestures do other particular things. Instantaneously it:
1) throws a 'screen shot' via Bluetooth to my Mac which completely covers my e-mail;
2) launches Quicktime, which is the program you are using to view it;
3) instantaneously downloads the four-minute trailer from your iPad in a split-second (like Quicktime Pro does now with Jobs' 2-hour presentations);
4) and then replaces the static 'screen shot' by playing the trailer from the beginning!
In this way, the 'revolutionary new feature'---'Cameron Acquisition'---could be up and running! With faster chips, and the new, speedier OS X, the whole above proceedure could be initiated/completed in say, 4 or 5 seconds! And, it works equally well with anything: Pages, PowerPoint, Quickbooks, whatever. Well, whata ya think? Should I send this to His Steveness, or are they already on it???
DeeGee 🙂
Sent From My Power Mac G-4
(G4 'Digital Audio', 2001)
Get A Mac!
A HAPPY MEMBER OF THE APPLE UNIVERSE SINCE 1984 🙂
DeeGee48
macrumors regular
I was just thinking that it would send the data to whatever other Bluetooth device was 'on' in it's immediate vicinity, say a 10 foot radius or something. I'm sure they could figure out a way to do that easily enough! In the movie remember, the guy is just walking by a large holographic monitor and 'grabs' the data for his tablet! Close range only!
my Lion/new Mac wish list
Time Machine update that understands when I change the drive from being plugged in to my G5 tower to being plugged directly in to my Airport Extreme that it's the same darn backup and won't make me delete it and start over from scratch, wasting days & potentially loosing my data...
additional columns in the Finder Find feature. like "Size" for one - I need "Size"
be able to reassign the Fn buttons so I can use the app-only version of exposé, which makes way more sense when combined with command-tab.
Resolution Independence - It's about time that I pick 100% on my document size and I get an 8.5"x11" image on my screen.
Cut & Paste files in Finder. There are some times when Drag & Drop randomly does not work or is cumbersome.
Blue-ray. Come on! Windows users laugh at me!
Plug-ins for Keynote.
Get away from these giant long title bars that just eat up screen space. Like in XCode documentation, where the combined bars take up 20% of my vertical screen space with gray and blue gradients
Ability to place application menu bars on separate monitors - 'cause when your menu bar is on the 13" inch screen, it takes a little while to get the mouse in the invisible "ok" zone from the giant external monitor.
Automator actions that are actually useful for the Apple apps. like Keynote's smart builds
Popovers, like in iOS for file info & quicklook
Face Time for iChat (this is the free square in Steve-bingo)
a trackpad that works with clicks at the top in addition to the bottom - my friends don't understand you can't click near the top of the trackpad, and have just about broken it.
developer features like design pattern analysis instead of just memory analysis. Tools to help me migrate code between languages. I need to write C++ code for work, but it's way easier to write Objective-C and then port it over, but it's tedious.
Objective-C 3.0 unicode method/variable names, operators, & make new operators Start moving away from manual variable layout, #compiler directives & text-based coding
Fix the bugs in the disclosure triangles in Xcode so they actually work
light-whatever-- that intel cable that's way fast that's gonna replace all our usb's.
Wifi sd cards hmmm... I can dream can't I? wait... those exist somewhere...
touchable Mac screens - sometimes I just want to click that button and I don't want to reach for my mouse and try to find the cursor on the screen so I can move it in place.
a mode where Google maps isn't the most painful experience ever with my Magic Mouse. Oh, I guess that's a google thing...
And my guess for Mac OS XI names? Greek heros.
Time Machine update that understands when I change the drive from being plugged in to my G5 tower to being plugged directly in to my Airport Extreme that it's the same darn backup and won't make me delete it and start over from scratch, wasting days & potentially loosing my data...
additional columns in the Finder Find feature. like "Size" for one - I need "Size"
be able to reassign the Fn buttons so I can use the app-only version of exposé, which makes way more sense when combined with command-tab.
Resolution Independence - It's about time that I pick 100% on my document size and I get an 8.5"x11" image on my screen.
Cut & Paste files in Finder. There are some times when Drag & Drop randomly does not work or is cumbersome.
Blue-ray. Come on! Windows users laugh at me!
Plug-ins for Keynote.
Get away from these giant long title bars that just eat up screen space. Like in XCode documentation, where the combined bars take up 20% of my vertical screen space with gray and blue gradients
Ability to place application menu bars on separate monitors - 'cause when your menu bar is on the 13" inch screen, it takes a little while to get the mouse in the invisible "ok" zone from the giant external monitor.
Automator actions that are actually useful for the Apple apps. like Keynote's smart builds
Popovers, like in iOS for file info & quicklook
Face Time for iChat (this is the free square in Steve-bingo)
a trackpad that works with clicks at the top in addition to the bottom - my friends don't understand you can't click near the top of the trackpad, and have just about broken it.
developer features like design pattern analysis instead of just memory analysis. Tools to help me migrate code between languages. I need to write C++ code for work, but it's way easier to write Objective-C and then port it over, but it's tedious.
Objective-C 3.0 unicode method/variable names, operators, & make new operators Start moving away from manual variable layout, #compiler directives & text-based coding
Fix the bugs in the disclosure triangles in Xcode so they actually work
light-whatever-- that intel cable that's way fast that's gonna replace all our usb's.
Wifi sd cards hmmm... I can dream can't I? wait... those exist somewhere...
touchable Mac screens - sometimes I just want to click that button and I don't want to reach for my mouse and try to find the cursor on the screen so I can move it in place.
a mode where Google maps isn't the most painful experience ever with my Magic Mouse. Oh, I guess that's a google thing...
And my guess for Mac OS XI names? Greek heros.
hobbbz
macrumors 6502a
lewis82
macrumors 68000
mrsir2009
macrumors 604
Nah, today's voice rec software sucks. Sure, its a fun gimmick (for a while) But its way less economical than using the mouse and keyboard.
mrsir2009
macrumors 604
They should try to put much better speech to text. It works great on the Google phones. Dragon dictation isn't as good on the iphone. It might get much better if Apple was working on it and building into OS X 10.7
lewis82
macrumors 68000
Haha, definitely a cheap price! I would like it if on the bottom of the folder where it states how many GB you have left and so on, if you can see how large the file is. So when you're browsing your video files for examples in a folder, and you select a movie... on the bottom of the folder.. it should say the file size or something. I believe this is a feature in Windows. I don't think it's a lot to ask for.