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OS X Snow Leopard 10A402 Brings Visual Tweaks and Other Enhancements
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Not sure if you were asking about its 64bit-ness as that seems to be the main concern for most running SL betas on X3100's. But at the moment its still 32bit (in 10A402).. Video playback seems quite improved in this update though.
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Yeah, one think I like about Aqua is that it kinda looks...alive, organic. The Marble theme just looks plain and dead. Strange adjectives, I know, but that's exactly what I thought when I first saw them.
Still no preferences in QuickTime.
Still no preferences in QuickTime with this update. Which means that there is no way to get movies to auto start when you double-click them in Finder or when you enable full screen mode within the QuickTime player.
Also I miss the Command+2 option in QuickTime to double the size of the video being played.
Still no preferences in QuickTime with this update. Which means that there is no way to get movies to auto start when you double-click them in Finder or when you enable full screen mode within the QuickTime player.
Also I miss the Command+2 option in QuickTime to double the size of the video being played.
As far as I have understood VMV/WMA+DRM offers the publisher a level of security not matched by any other formats. That's why most major danish TV broadcasters, the danish state library and TDC Play has choosen exactly that combo. Much to any Mac owners frustration.
Real WMV/WMA+DRM support on Mac is my #1 Mac OS feature wish. As the lack of it continues to cause daily problems when surfing online.
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Is it true that Apple has disabled the Hard Drive Icons from the Desktop by Default? I know some people don't care for it but this is actually something I still like to use. I can drag a file onto the disk icon and it springs open. I have to hold down the space bar to drag it over the finder icon and if I'm dragging from a CD of DVD with no sidebar (yes, I know you can expand the sidebar), I have to open another finder window before I drag. If the Hard drive Icon is there.. I can drag straight to it. It works perfectly. I think Apple needs to change the behavior of the finder Icon in the Dock before the disable the Hard Disk Icon from the Desktop completely.
I understand that you can turn this feature on, but I can't help but wonder if Apple is trying to ween us from this altogether.
At any rate, why fix something that's not broken? I think it's still better to have them there. The idea is the Desktop shows you what you have to work with. I also can't help but think this is a competition with Windows 7's empty desktop appearance but Windows has never been "Volume friendly browsing" and the Mac has.
Is it true that Apple has disabled the Hard Drive Icons from the Desktop by Default? I know some people don't care for it but this is actually something I still like to use. I can drag a file onto the disk icon and it springs open. I have to hold down the space bar to drag it over the finder icon and if I'm dragging from a CD of DVD with no sidebar (yes, I know you can expand the sidebar), I have to open another finder window before I drag. If the Hard drive Icon is there.. I can drag straight to it. It works perfectly. I think Apple needs to change the behavior of the finder Icon in the Dock before the disable the Hard Disk Icon from the Desktop completely.
I understand that you can turn this feature on, but I can't help but wonder if Apple is trying to ween us from this altogether.
At any rate, why fix something that's not broken? I think it's still better to have them there. The idea is the Desktop shows you what you have to work with. I also can't help but think this is a competition with Windows 7's empty desktop appearance but Windows has never been "Volume friendly browsing" and the Mac has.
I recall installing Snow Leopard build 10A380 (clean install), and the desktop icons were still there, so I don't think they've been hidden by default. But if they have, you just go into Finder -> Preferences and turn them back on. Takes all of 2-3 seconds.
And, no, I don't think they're trying to "copy" the Windows 7 desktop, they're just getting rid of clutter where possible. You have to remember that for every person who uses the desktop icons as you do, there are a thousand people who don't.
Windows had cut paste and append folders since at least windows 3.1.
Mac finder still doesn't have it, SHAME. I would call this feature essential.
Will you stop posting this stupid message about append folder over and over? It's just a feature which you can live without if you try, and certainly doesn't make Finder any worse than Windows Explorer.
Um.. Yeah finder does have cut in paste.. what planet do you live on? When the heck will Windows loose it's dll, And Registry and Ween itself from File Extensions, and bundle it's programs into one Icon that users can re-name as they want put where they want and delete by simply dragging them to the trash??????
Get a life, get a Mac.
Thanks for you answer however in regards to your last comment, I'm assuming that you have emperical data to back up your assumption that most people do not use the desktop icons.
Not aiming at you, but for every person that posts requesting an essential feature from apple, there are 200 000 other pple suffering in silence from this lack of feature, namely, cut and append to folders in Finder.
apple developer website said:
Only apple developer can submit bugs and "enhancement requests", so please, if you are an apple developer, please submit a request for append to folder when you cut and paste folders instead of overwriting - which deletes the whole folder and replaces with the other one. at least give us the option to append. if enough people request it, then steve jobs willing they will give in.
On a not so important note, can we place any file or object other than an open app anywhere on the doc - that would be an awesome enhancement. and so will be the ability to remove finder from the doc, to replace it with a folder instead.
From what i've seen, windows 7 is a little ahead in the feature department and prettiness than what SL is in it's current developer preview. I am curious, why did apple rush SL to be released before windows 7? I have a strange suspicion that they are feeling scared. I would be too, especially if such an essential feature like cut and appending folders is lacking from my file browser. even all flavours of hackzor linux has this essential requirement.
Sure it does... it caused me to lose a lot of data. I am more pissed off that finder does not have cut and append than you are with me for posting how much i hate it... so i will continue.
It's your fault for not researching on how OS X works
And besides, don't cry over spilled milk, rather try not to make that mistake again. Besides, wth are you saying, you CAN cut (or better move) in OS X.
I got a life and i have a Mac, a good one. What i don't have are my essential files that finder caused me to lose. And if you read my post correctly, i'm after cut and paste with append to folders.
Here's a scenario for you.... you cut large folder from one drive to a network or usb drive... and it is about half way... then network fails, or finder times out.... what now?? half your files are one location, half at another. You go to paste that folder again... then half of your files - the ones that went through before the interruption - get deleted then the other half come through, and the end result is half the files you started with and no way to recover the lost files bcs they are on network drive. If you lost months of your work files in one little cut paste episode... u'd feel the same too.
It's your fault for not researching on how OS X works
Besides, wth are you saying, you CAN cut (or better move) in OS X.
Correction - cut paste with append. Correction again.... it wasn't spilt milk, it was a small bag of diamonds, i'm down almost $30 000 because of it.
And from the research that i did before switching from windows to Mac was that mac's are more intuitive, even apple themselves claim the same. To delete a half coppied folder is not very intuitive. I love macs but we all need them to listen to what their customers need. and you know i'm not asking for much
But Macs ARE more intuitive. But they are not Windows, so they work in a different way.
And about the scenario with the network drive, if you think it's dangerous to cut in that situation, just copy, paste and then delete the original drive. It's a longer way, but it's safer. And besides, Cut is definitely not a good choice. It's actually risky, and I can assure you that you could lose files with that too (If you're a Mac user who switched to Windows, for instance).
Append folders. It's not a big deal.
I'm sorry for what you lost, but that's only because you were used to "The Windows way" and OS X doesn't have to behave in the same way in order to be user friendly.
Actually Unixes do it the right way. When you copy a file somewhere and there's another file with the same name, do you expect the file to be overwritten or not? I don't see why it should be different for folders.
i would agree with you if files could be half copied over before the original is modified or deleted. when you cut folders, each individual file once moved, gets deleted therefore modifying the original folder being copied - before the operation is completed. I have never lost a file in windows with using cut, so it's not dangerous and it can be done and done right. This same perfection is not repeated by finder.
This is just one of the many differences in the OSs. If they where to change it to work the way windows does after all these years then it would cause confusion with people moving from a snow leopard machine to another version of os x.
Mac users already know how finder works in this way and its mainly switchers who have trouble because they didn't bother to properly learn the new platform first.
That is why copy, paste, delete is a better option. Indirect backup.
And yet you say
intel said: