See below:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Make-the-text-on-your-screen-larger-or-smaller
And trust me: I HATE Windows - but had a hard time explaining a recent Mac convert why OS X doesn't offer that.
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See below:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Make-the-text-on-your-screen-larger-or-smaller
And trust me: I HATE Windows - but had a hard time explaining a recent Mac convert why OS X doesn't offer that.
So, basically, you want to change the size of the system font. That's a far cry from what you actually said!
You can adjust that using TinkerTool if you are interested.Seems to me that the two solutions that I suggested solve the actual problem just as well, even if it is different than the Windows option.
So, basically, you want to change the size of the system font. That's a far cry from what you actually said!
Seems to me that the two solutions that I suggested solve the actual problem just as well, even if it is different than the Windows option.
Bear in mind that it's not only the System font...TT cannot do that.
True "save as". Hold down option and choose it from the File menu, or option-cmd-shift-s.
Aren't Apple running out of cats? Is next year's release going to be called "Feral Cat" or "Next Door's Moggy"?
I thought they would have stopped with "Lion" and gone with a different animal. Take birds of prey: Falcon, Hawk, Eagle etc have a nice ring, IMHO
I thought they would have stopped with "Lion" and gone with a different animal. Take birds of prey: Falcon, Hawk, Eagle etc have a nice ring, IMHO
Because he wants to do it the way Windows does it and nothing else matters, so there!
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Oh yeah, I see that. But why? Duplicate works so well. I'm actually a little bit upset that Apple gave in that way.
How interesting that you started with me with your comments, a fanboy is not a rude comment as I clearly indicated the criteria about what constitutes one as such.
I can see that the word humble is the antonym when it comes to you. No matter, your prior experience with prehistoric machines, computing and code are irrelevant to this topic.
Seems you're interested in sharing your bio with me, well let's see if I can contribute to this meaningless exchange that probably won't matter to you. My first experience with computers was also with cards, in fact that was my introduction to FORTRAN back in the 70's. Many of the machines back in those days could not boot unless you either set a bunch of switches and/or inserted a punch card with a bootstrap code.
Your assumption of my age is also incorrect, as my first computer didn't come pre-built and had to be assembled, the Altair 8800. I was kind of disappointed since only a few months later the IMSAI 8080 made its debut and was a much better machine. I also work with computers for a living and currently hold a MIS and work as an OSCP.
Your last comment is proof in the pudding that the fanboy description fits you. You seem to think that Apple is God (the premium product or whatever that's supposed to mean). I won't say that they have subpar products but they're far from being the best, don't kid yourself about that. If you enjoy using Apple machines then good for you, there's nothing wrong with preferring to use one product over the other regardless of whether there's something technically better out there or not. You're obviously too proud that you use OSX.
I use computers as tools, as such I don't show loyalty to either Macs or PC's, Apple or Microsoft (or Unix/Solaris/Linux/BeOS, etc.) I use what I have access to and always look to use whichever seems to fit my needs and can accomplish my requirements best. Sorry if I kicked the legs out off your high horse, the fall must've hurt.
Running a LCD at a (lower) non-native resolution makes it look like crap (unless it's exactly half, which is likely too great a change).
And using the system's universal access zoom function means panning around the screen area.
While your suggestions do increase the size of interface elements, your suggestions do not achieve the same thing as a proper adjustable-size UI.
Looks to me like F9 but sorted...
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That's still more of a workaround than a real fix. I don't actually use Lion for anything but Xcode and stay in Leopard most of the time, so I've never actually tried to fix the hidden Library folders.
Being a PPC user, I see you have good reason to stay in Leopard
. I wouldn't want to go to Lion and lose Rosetta. For some reason, all of the apps I need are always for Motorola processors only.----------
I agree except that Lion doesn't have Rosetta. That is a big problem for me, but it's probably nothing for most people. More importantly, I'm sure that Lion uses more computer resources, and I don't want to upgrade my iMac's OS more than once because new OSs tend to be made for new computers.
Apple should totally use the names of mythological felines. They could have Mac OS X Sphinx, Barong, Werecat and Manticore. And why not? Manticores are bad-ASS
To be fair. Vista had a couple of service packs of its own, 7 was a complete rewrite in many respects and brought down system requirements and made the os much lighter.
I used to run my PowerBook g4 up until 6 months ago on leopard, and it was snappier in average usage scenarios than a brand new mac mini with 4gbs on lion...it's like you said, sometimes routine tasks get Beachballs for no reason or lags... Whatever you buy next from apple make sure it doesn't have a hard disk, apparently apple has offloaded much kernel memory management development to the ssd...
While that makes sense in theory, in the actual scenario we were discussing the the reason to increase the size of the elements was poor eyesight!
If it's hard to see the current interface elements, the effects of non-native resolution are going to be inconsequential.(And if you followed the conversation, he didn't actually make any reference to resolution independent UI elements until several posts after I made those suggestions.)
So, basically, you want to change the size of the system font. That's a far cry from what you actually said!
Seems to me that the two solutions that I suggested solve the actual problem just as well, even if it is different than the Windows option.
The apologism and misinformation you were doing in the collusion thread, glad to have you back. I am sure you are very well aware tinker tool can't do that save for 6-7 largely irrelevant system font, that there is no workaround to dpi setting for font and resolution independence in os x, and until apple go retina (and we ll see how much of this problem will be fixed because still dpi for fonts in user interface won't be available) ALL mac users will have to suffer through ever shrinking font sizes in apples and 3rd party ui elements Witt the ever increasing resolutions of apple so far.
Glad to have you back again like on the other thread trying to misinform your way about it.
I really liked your last argument btw, user defined dpi are for poor eyesight basically (because of course apple can shrink fonts as have done so far at will), so since everyone who's gonna need them has poor eyesight they might as well use non nave resolution (make them larger but blurry, and even worse defined...sure that will help) and this is going o be inconsequential...
Let me ask you something buddy, if there are tons of threads here, elsewhere and in apple support forums demanding dpi settings for font, and almost no one has managed to use a lower resolution without making their problem worse not better, who do you think you are to say to these people lower the resolution this is inconsequential to you, other than a person with a big opinion of their blatantly wrong opinion?
You are at the top of your game again.
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no, because os x doesn't do it, period, ri has been the long broken promise of apple. Just cause we use os x doesn't mean we can't be honest when it comes to strong points of other os's. People wanting to adjust their dpi and not suffer through small font simply shouldn't choose os x until retina (even after retina, we ll see about that cause again apple offer a half baked "solution"), and people having bought a mc should have in mind that they will never be able to adjust them, ever, to dpi running os x, because apple won't be offering this to non retina screen macs.
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Funny you mention this because I was just trying to buy the Forklift for .99 at work in iTunes and thought "why can't I just buy something on my account and download it later?"
This would work great for movies as well where you just want to buy the content and then stream/download it later to the proper device.
I disagree. The Finder can set the default size of the font up to 16 pixels, the icons on the desktop can be up to 128 pixels wide, and you can set the font size in Safari to always be anything up to 24 pixels minimum, as with all modern browsers. Preview has the zoom buttons right in the top bar (where you can use LARGE icons is you like), Simple Text allows you to set whatever size you want as the default font. So NO I DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU WANT. Everything you are asking for is available. If you want larger type on the desktop and menus, it's there. The settings are not where Windows puts it, and that's what you seem to object to. Mac users do not need to "suffer through small fonts" as you claim. It's just not true.
Go to "View --> Options" in the Finder and later right-click on the Desktop and choose "Show View Options." It's pretty simple. In the browsers, Mail, anything, etc. go to the preferences and choose a large font. You only have to do this once when you set up your computer or app.
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That's still more of a workaround than a real fix. I don't actually use Lion for anything but Xcode and stay in Leopard most of the time, so I've never actually tried to fix the hidden Library folders.
Being a PPC user, I see you have good reason to stay in Leopard
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Use Xray to make the folders visible, there should be a checkbox under Folder Information.
Why can't they just have "inform of update when app if available when app launches" like most of the apps you buy off-App Store do today?
I don't like having to manually check the App Store for an update, but neither would I want them to auto-update without my knowledge.
I don't like having to manually check the App Store for an update, but neither would I want them to auto-update without my knowledge.
I know its just a workaround, but each major update just go to the terminal and type in "chflags nohidden ~/Library". The whole changing flags thing kinda threw me off as I came from linux and kept trying iterations of chattr instead. But its an easy enough command to remember (not to mention chflags is useful to know for multiple reasons), especially if you use terminal often enough.
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I can see where you are coming from, and for a lot of people your solution would work well. But true resolution independence has been on the wish list of many for years (just search the forum), and in some situations is the ultimate solution when managing off beat pixel densities, or in situations where they have unusual viewing distances (say a lounge room tv). There are times when all UI elements being scaled is better than simply changing font sizes.
Doing so in linux for example is no problem at all. Mind you it's not high in my list of priorities for ML. I'd really like to see multiple monitors and full screen being a little more useful - and I really don't see why there is no option to set up each monitor as a separate space (or desktops as lion likes to call them). Since a full screen app ends up moving itself to a new space/desktop it can occupy one monitor while another space/desktop occupies the other. But like another poster said, I guess its not too difficult to simply have two stretched windows until apple does something better.
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I got nothing on that, I'm probably one of the loudest complainers about it.
True save as menu command. The latest version requires an extra modifier key to reveal it so it's a bit hidden, but it's there.
That's one. No question there are missed opportunities (which there always are with any OS release) but there are quite a few fixes. Lion definitely made a number of changes that many users felt were going the wrong direction. ML has a few questionable tweaks but I'd say there are far fewer missteps than there were with Lion and the improvements generally outweigh the steps backward (and there are still a couple months to go). ML really is another release in the vein of SL, anyone who wants big obvious new features is going to be disappointed. Like SL, instead it's many subtler refinements that add up to a much improved experience.
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9 months later... Getting board yet?
Are you sure that's how ML implements it? Have you used it or just speculation? If that is the case that's unfortunate but hopefully testers will give feedback and they'd change it before public release.