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Unofficial MacRumors Questionaire: Your Personalised Mac

1. bottom, center, no hiding, no mag, with clear spacers to organize things.

2. Always: PathFinder, SystemPreferences, Safari, Mail, iCal, Excel, Pages, Keynote, LaTeX Equation Editor, BiBdesk, iTeXMac, iPhoto, iTunes, Terminal, X11, finkCommander, Fetch, Xcode, Calculator, Mathematica, Matlab.
Most Days: Preview, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Maple.

3. DesktopManager (3 screens), MenuMeters (network and CPU), Bluetooth, AirPort, Sound, DisplayPreferences, Time, Battery, Spotlight.

4. Top left.

5. Short videos and compressed DVDs in iTunes, larger videos sit in the Movies folder.

6. Mostly list (sort by kind or date), except for smaller ones or those with lots of pics, then folder with preview for all images.

7. PathFinder sidebar has several document folders plus all the main ones.

8. Todays documents (things to be emailed, edited a lot), plus a backup folder, and a SmartFolder with the past 7 days' modified files. USB flash drives and my FW backup drives at home sit there sometimes.

9. Mail

10. Safari (also use a widget for quick looks) and the RSS screensaver.

This is for my PowerBook (My #1 favorite computer). My iMac is newer and far less customized (waiting for more Universal Apps).
 
1. Where is your dock placed? Bottom, visible

2. What items do you keep in the dock (everything, daily used, many times daily used) finder, sys pref, silverkeeper, calculator, omnidictionary, dictionary, cashbox, shiira, camino, mail, safari, pages, keynote, word, excel, powerpoint, handbrake, VLC, acquisition, limewire, toast, iTunes, iMovie, Garageband, iPhoto, Photoshop elements, lightroom, EyeTv, DVD player, stickies, trash

3. What items do you have in your menu-bar? FUS, bluetooth, volume, date/time, spotlight

4. Where is your Safari window located? (Center, left or right) center

5. Do you use iTunes to store video, or just music? music+some videos (only the ones I transfer onto my iPod

6. In the Finder, do you view in folder, list, or column view? folder

7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar? nope

8. Do you have any icons on your desktop? HD and occasional folders

9. What application do you use for emails? mail

10. What application do you use for RSS feeds? safari

Final Question: What Mac/s do you use? see sig

:)
 
Glenn Wolsey said:
Unofficial Macteens Questionaire: Your Personalised Mac

We choose Mac's because we love to be different and unique, how do you like your machines?

1. Where is your dock placed? Bottom, hidden

2. What items do you keep in the dock (everything, daily used, many times daily used) Many times daily used only. Mail, Safari, iTunes, iChat, Finder.. thats about it.

3. What items do you have in your menu-bar? Default + iChat status + screen lock

4. Where is your Safari window located? (Center, left or right) Left

5. Do you use iTunes to store video, or just music? Music

6. In the Finder, do you view in folder, list, or column view? Column

7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar? Nope

8. Do you have any icons on your desktop? ********s

9. What application do you use for emails? Mail

10. What application do you use for RSS feeds? Safari

Final Question: What Mac/s do you use? Was an iBook, now thats sold, in a few days it will be a 20" Intel iMac.
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See above. :)
 
1. Where is your dock placed? Bottom, Not Hidden , minimal magnification.

2. What items do you keep in the dock (everything, daily used, many times daily used) Finder, DB, Safari, Mail, Address Book, ITunes, IPhoto, Iviewmedia pro, ICal, Word, Excel, Sysprefs

3. What items do you have in your menu-bar? Bluetooth, Internet Connect, Airport, Volume, International palette changer, BT, AE, Time, Spotlight

4. Where is your Safari window located? (Center, left or right) Left.

5. Do you use iTunes to store video, or just music? Music and some Video.

6. In the Finder, do you view in folder, list, or column view? Mostly folder.

7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar? Yes, shared folder with other user.

8. Do you have any icons on your desktop? Only the HD I like it minimalist.

9. What application do you use for emails? Mail for most things, Entourage for Hotmail.

10. What application do you use for RSS feeds? Safari.

Final Question: What Mac/s do you use? Powerbook G4 12"/1.5GHz/1.25 MB Ram/80GB/AE/BT
 
Unofficial Macteens Questionaire: Your Personalised Mac

1. Where is your dock placed? bottom

2. What items do you keep in the dock (everything, daily used, many times daily used) everything i use daily plus lots more

3. What items do you have in your menu-bar?
everything normal, os9,aiport,itunes controller

4. Where is your Safari window located? (Center, left or right)
center

5. Do you use iTunes to store video, or just music?
just music

6. In the Finder, do you view in folder, list, or column view?
folder

7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar?
yes

8. Do you have any icons on your desktop?
nothing besides drives

9. What application do you use for emails?
thunderbird and mac mail


Final Question: What Mac/s do you use?
powermac g5 and powermac b/w g3
 
1. Where is your dock placed?
Bottom center, always visible​

2. What items do you keep in the dock (everything, daily used, many times daily used)
Daily applications only​

3. What items do you have in your menu-bar?
iChat, Language pallate (I chat in French and need the accented characters)​

4. Where is your Safari window located? (Center, left or right)
Centered​

5. Do you use iTunes to store video, or just music?
Only music​

6. In the Finder, do you view in folder, list, or column view?
Depends on my needs. Usually, list though.​

7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar?
Not a one...although I think I might add Drop Box​

8. Do you have any icons on your desktop?
Only files that I'm working with immediately, mounted network volumes, and mounted removal media devices. My desktop is for viewing wallpaper, not being cluttered with icons.​

9. What application do you use for emails?
Mail.app​

10. What application do you use for RSS feeds?
Safari​

Final Question: What Mac/s do you use?
12" iBook...and soon a 20" Intel iMac!!​
 
1. My Dock's on the bottom of my primary (internal) display.

2. My Dock has selection of my most-used applications (eMail, browser, Terminal, iTunes iCal, text editor and Keynote.) No files/folders/bookmarks or anything else.

3. My menubar has the usual stuff: Volume, AirPort, Bluetooth, battery, and the clock.

4. New Safari windows are spawned off-center on my secondary (external) monitor

5. iTunes is just for music. I keep videos in folders, and watch them in QuickTime.

6. My Finder windows are usually in List view, with the toolbar/sidebar off. Like the System 7 days....

7. What sidebar? :)

8. My Desktop holds whatever files I'm working on in any given day, plus aliases for AppleWorks and my Documents folder

9. I'm very fond of QUALCOMM Eudora 6.2

10. None. I find RSS needlessly distracting.

All this on a PowerBook G4 12" 1.5GHz with an external display.
 
1. Where is your dock placed? LEFT, HIDDEN & MAGNIFIED.

2. What items do you keep in the dock A TON. THREE WEB BROWSERS, IAPPS, VIDEO/COMPOSITING PROGRAMS, FLASH SUITE, MEDIA PLAYERS, ADOBE SUITE, MISC - ALL ORGANIZED IN CLUMPS. ALSO KEEP ALL HARDDISKS AND IMPORTANT FOLDERS THERE.

3. What items do you have in your menu-bar?
DEFAULT (INCLUDING AIRPORT AND BLUETOOTH), EJECT BUTTON.

4. Where is your Safari window located? (Center, left or right)
LEFT.

5. Do you use iTunes to store video, or just music?
MUSIC ONLY

6. In the Finder, do you view in folder, list, or column view?
MOSTLY FOLDER AND LIST

7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar?
NO.

8. Do you have any icons on your desktop?
JUST DRIVES AND MEDIA.

9. What application do you use for emails?
MAIL (W/HTTP MAIL FOR HOTMAIL)


Final Question: What Mac/s do you use?
IMAC REV. B 2GHZ G5 & UPGRADED G4 PISMO.
 
1. Where is your dock placed?
The bottom centre, hidden with slight magnification.

2. What items do you keep in the dock (everything, daily used, many times daily used)
(L-R) Mail, Camino, Adium, Preview, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Flash, Dreamweaver, iTunes, TextEdit, Calculator, Address Book, iCal, FontExplorer, Stickies, Fetch, MacJanitor, SuperDuper, iSudoku, VLC, CandyBar | Applications folder, Utilities folder, Pictures folder, Open Projects folder.

3. What items do you have in your menu-bar?
(R-L)Battery, Volume, Airport, Bluetooth, FuzzyClock, Adium, MailCount

4. Where is your Safari window located? (Center, left or right)
Right, usually.

5. Do you use iTunes to store video, or just music?
Just music. The video stuff seems to be a bit glitchy.

6. In the Finder, do you view in folder, list, or column view?
Column, baby.

7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar?Can't remember the default, but mine is Network, HD (divider) Home, Desktop, Applications, Pictures, Open Projects, Documents, Movies, Movies, Games, Utilities, Sites.

8. Do you have any icons on your desktop?
Ooh, no. There's occasionally a current document or folder though.

9. What application do you use for emails?
Mail.

10. What application do you use for RSS feeds?
I don't RSS feed nothing.

Final Question: What Mac/s do you use?
12" PowerBook 1.33 GHz.
 
Unofficial Macteens Questionaire: Your Personalised Mac

1. Bottom-center, hidden

2. Daily apps (I use Quicksilver to launch most apps)

3. Clock, Character Palette (for switching between Dvorak and Qwerty as needed), volume, Temp Monitor, and SlimBatteryMonitor

4. Left (usually)

5. Just music.

6. List view most often, followed by column, then folder

7. Yes (3 document folders)

8. Yes (files waiting to be places elsewhere, + about 10 aliases to commonly used folders)

9. Mail.app

10. NetNewsWire Lite (daily) and Vienna (archiving)

Final Question: 12" PowerBook G4 1.33 GHz, 1.25 GB RAM, 100 GB HD
 
1. Where is your dock placed? Bottom, hidden and with magnification

2. What items do you keep in the dock (everything, daily used, many times daily used) Basically anything I use at least once a week. I can't give an exact list as this computers new and I haven't had a chance to fill it with downloaded crap like shareware :p

3. What items do you have in your menu-bar? Displays, Bluetooth, Airport, Volume, Clock, Spotlight.

4. Where is your Safari window located? (Center, left or right) Center, sometimes left.

5. Do you use iTunes to store video, or just music? Just music and it's album artwork.

6. In the Finder, do you view in folder, list, or column view? Column, definitely the easiest, most organised way.

7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar? The 'Utilities' folder, which I pasted the icon from 'installer' on so it wasn't an ugly blue folder in the sidebar.

8. Do you have any icons on your desktop? Only the Mac HD and some odd temporary stuff.

9. What application do you use for emails? Apple Mail

10. What application do you use for RSS feeds? I could say safari, but I truly haven't been bothered with RSS.

Final Question: What Mac/s do you use? Only the iMac and the pismo in my sig. I have no need to use the G5 now as I have my own desktop.
 
1. Where is your dock placed?
The top right. No magnification.

2. What items do you keep in the dock (everything, daily used, many times daily used)
Just the stuff I use daily: Safari, iTunes, AdiumX, Mail, iPhoto.

3. What items do you have in your menu-bar?
Quicksilver, iScrobbler/last.fm

4. Where is your Safari window located? (Center, left or right)
Top right.

5. Do you use iTunes to store video, or just music?
Just music...and that Redvines SNL video.

6. In the Finder, do you view in folder, list, or column view?
Column.

7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar?
Just a games folder. Some games have trouble being in the Apps folder.

8. Do you have any icons on your desktop?
The only thing I have is an avatar that I'm going to use once I reach the big 5-0-0. It's really neat.

9. What application do you use for emails?
Mail.

10. What application do you use for RSS feeds?
Safari, I only have 1 RSS feed thats rarely updated, though. Don't really use it.

Final Question: What Mac/s do you use?
1.25 GHz Mac mini. 512 MB RAM.
 
1 - Bottom, visible, small

2 - Daily used

3 - Blue Phone Menu, Main Menu, Bluetooth, Air Port, Volume, Time

4 - Center

5 - Just music

6 - Folder

7 - No

8 - HDs, Flash Drives, iPod

9 - Mail

10 - Safari

see sig
 
1. Where is your dock placed?
Bottom, Shrunken to about 1/2 size at 1024x768

2. What items do you keep in the dock (everything, daily used, many times daily used)
Just the stuff I use daily or on a regular basis

3. What items do you have in your menu-bar?
Sound, NAV, Eject, Konfabulator

4. Where is your Safari window located? (Center, left or right)
Centered on Screen

5. Do you use iTunes to store video, or just music?
Just music

6. In the Finder, do you view in folder, list, or column view?
List or column view depending on what I am doing at the moment

7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar?
Nope

8. Do you have any icons on your desktop?
Yes. Hard Drives, DVD Drive, Folder with Apps Shortcuts

9. What application do you use for emails?
Entourage, Looking at Lotus Notes

10. What application do you use for RSS feeds?
Don't really use it.

Final Question: What Mac/s do you use?
Dual G4 533, 64meg video, 896meg Ram,
 
1. Typically bottom, Left on laptops.
2. Oft used apps
3. WeatherPop, the rest depends on which Mac
4. Wherever..
5. Both
6. List, always list.. well almost always list, occasionally column
7. Absolutely
8. Absolutely
9. The world's greatest application ever conceived by a horde of money grubbing monkeys smoking cigars and banging away randomly on computers creating code, Lotus Notes. And Mail.
10. I don't. Never bought into the whole RSS junk.
Final Question: Heavily upgraded Qwoosh '01 (home), 15" AlPB (work), MDD (work), Quicksilver '02 (work)
 
Glenn Wolsey said:
1. Where is your dock placed?

2. What items do you keep in the dock (everything, daily used, many times daily used)

3. What items do you have in your menu-bar?

4. Where is your Safari window located? (Center, left or right)

5. Do you use iTunes to store video, or just music?

6. In the Finder, do you view in folder, list, or column view?

7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar?

8. Do you have any icons on your desktop?

9. What application do you use for emails?

10. What application do you use for RSS feeds?

Final Question: What Mac/s do you use?
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1. Bottom

2. Lots

3. Lots

4. Right

5. Mostly music, some video podcasts

6. Column, ALWAYS!

7. Shared, Utilities, VJ Library, iTunes Music

8. Work in Progress

9. Mail

10. Safari

Final Question. see sig
 

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1. Where is your dock placed?
-Bottom, cenre, magnification, smaller than default.

2. What items do you keep in the dock (everything, daily used, many times daily used)
-All of my main productivity-style apps. Applications folder on the right of the dock.

3. What items do you have in your menu-bar?
-iScrobbler, Adium, Airport, Quicksilver

4. Where is your Safari window located? (Center, left or right)
- Centre

5. Do you use iTunes to store video, or just music?
-Just music. I want a separate app for video

6. In the Finder, do you view in folder, list, or column view?
-Column! amazing.

7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar?
-Just my University folder which is located in Home/Documents

8. Do you have any icons on your desktop?
-Downloads folder, recently modified/created docs smart folder.

9. What application do you use for emails?
-Mail

10. What application do you use for RSS feeds?
-NetNewsWire. Amazing!

Final Question: What Mac/s do you use?
-Latest revision iBook 12"
 
1. Left.. slight magnification.

2. Finder, Mail, iTunes, Photoshop, Flash, Sherlock, Limewire, Proteus, AIM, Firefox, Safari, VLC, System Prefs., ThumbsUp, Applications Folder

3. Mouseworks, Sailing Clicker, CeePeeYou, iSync, iChat, among others

4. Main window all the way on the right, sub-window (i.e. forum post) in the middle... i dont do tabs.

5. A few videos (from my cell phone) but mostly music.

6. List

7. No

8. My hard drives, iDisk, Bluetooth File Exchange, Misc. folder, and a little AppleWorks app I made that starts up all of my apps (safari, mail, itunes, etc.) called iStart.

9. Mail

10. NetNewsWire

867 PowerMac G4.. waiting for the pro mactel tower...
 
1: Up until two weeks ago, at the left side of the screen. Now at the bottom.

2: Daily use, iApps, Games, Word

3: AirPort, iChat, Battery, Date/Time, Spotlight

4: Generally at the left, sometimes in the center

5: Music and music videos. And 'Boundin'

6: Mostly Folder, a couple list, and one column

7: Nope

8: Just Macintosh HD (Or 'Albert Camus', in my case)

9: Mail

10: Don't use RSS feeds

Finally: Check out my profile. He's a heifer.
 
Glenn Wolsey said:
Unofficial Macteens Questionaire: Your Personalised Mac

We choose Mac's because we love to be different and unique, how do you like your machines?

1. Where is your dock placed?

2. What items do you keep in the dock (everything, daily used, many times daily used)

3. What items do you have in your menu-bar?

4. Where is your Safari window located? (Center, left or right)

5. Do you use iTunes to store video, or just music?

6. In the Finder, do you view in folder, list, or column view?

7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar?

8. Do you have any icons on your desktop?

9. What application do you use for emails?

10. What application do you use for RSS feeds?

Final Question: What Mac/s do you use?
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LOL My Mac is not very customized.

1. bottom center

2. They are in this order: Finder, Safari, FireFox, Mail, iChat, Yahoo! Messenger, FrostWire, iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, iPhoto, Photoshop CS, Word, Google Earth, Virtual PC (i no...eew but I need it:( ), Chicken of the VNC (control my dad's computer :D ;) ), Airport Admin Utility, Activity Monitor, System Prefs, Macrumors.com, Trash.

3. I have, from right to left, Spotlight, Clock, Classic System Status, Bluetooth, Airport Status.

4. left

5. both

6. folder, I find it easiest to navigate because I'm blind :eek:

7. no, I fell left out :(

8. Yes, from top to bottom, Macintosh HD, USB Flash Drive (during homework), 250GB miniStack (firewire), and Shared Documents (documents folder of Dad's PC, on there most of the time).

9. Mail

10. I don't usually use RSS, but Safari I guess.

Final Question: Mac mini and iBook G4 (in sig)
 
Unofficial Macteens Questionaire: Your Personalised Mac

We choose Mac's because we love to be different and unique, how do you like your machines?

1. Where is your dock placed?
Bottom.
2. What items do you keep in the dock (everything, daily used, many times daily used)
Its stock plus photoshop, for some reason it feels wierd if I change it.
3. What items do you have in your menu-bar?
From left to right; Bluetooth, Airport, Volume, Battery (With Percentage) Clock, Spotlight.
4. Where is your Safari window located? (Center, left or right)
Center
5. Do you use iTunes to store video, or just music?
I use it to store both
6. In the Finder, do you view in folder, list, or column view?
Folder.
7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar?
The utilities folder, I hated always having to dig through my apps folder.
8. Do you have any icons on your desktop?
Only the HD, FW Drive, and Ipod icon. Nothing else.
9. What application do you use for emails?
Mail
10. What application do you use for RSS feeds?
Safari Although I dont use RSS
Final Question: What Mac/s do you use?
My beautiful iBook
 
Laser47 said:
7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar?
The utilities folder, I hated always having to dig through my apps folder.
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That's a great idea, Laser47!
 
Glenn Wolsey said:
Unofficial Macteens Questionaire: Your Personalised Mac

We choose Mac's because we love to be different and unique, how do you like your machines?

1. Where is your dock placed?
Click to expand...

Bottom of screen; always visible.

2. What items do you keep in the dock (everything, daily used, many times daily used)
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Everything I will use over the average week, plus some alternate programs I am trying out (Camino, etc.)

3. What items do you have in your menu-bar?
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ichat, battery, Airport, input menu, clock, username, Spotlight.

4. Where is your Safari window located? (Center, left or right)
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Left

5. Do you use iTunes to store video, or just music?
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Music.

6. In the Finder, do you view in folder, list, or column view?
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Folder. I did used to use column view exclusively.

7. Have you added any extra items to the Finder's sidebar?
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No. I did have a couple of folders in there for my courses.

8. Do you have any icons on your desktop?
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A smart folder (recent Word docs), 2 folders of recent other junk, some videos (that Richard Dawkins documentary about religion)

9. What application do you use for emails?
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Mail

10. What application do you use for RSS feeds?
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Safari

Final Question: What Mac/s do you use?
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The Powerbook in my sig. My wife uses our old iMac G3.
 
Go on, I'll play...

1. At the bottom of my screen. I've given it a go on the left and right hand sides, but find it works much better for me at the bottom.

2. From left to right: Finder, System Preferences, iPulse, • iTunes, iPhoto • Address Book, Mail, Safari, Adium • Quark, InDesign, Photoshop, ImageReady, Illustrator • Acrobat, Pages • Football Manager 2006, The Sims 2 (I use blank dock separators to organise and categorise my Dock – I've put a bullet in my list wherever a separator is placed).

3. From left to right: Modem, Classic, Bluetooth, iSync, Displays, Sound, Date/Time, Character Palette, Spotlight.

4. Just right of centre.

5. Music only.

6. Folder.

7. I can't remember exactly what was in there in the first place.

8. Yep*– HD, iDisk, and Download folder all the time, plus other folders and files as I work on them.

9. Mail.

10. Safari/Newsfire.

That's my G5 Power Mac.
 
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