uuhh, yes you can.. Go->Connect To Server (or
+ K), type in FTP:\\IP
Nice. One thing to cross off my list.
wow never knew people actually used this feature, what does it even do?? toast allows you to not 'finalise'
If I'm writing data to a disc, say for incremental backups such as yearly taxes, more than likely I won't be filling a 700MB disc up all at once. A multi-session CD allows me to add data to the CD at different times until full since it keeps the session "open". In Windows it's just a checkbox when you're burning. In OS X, there's no easy way to allow for a multi-session disc. And having to spend money on Toast just to have multi-session is silly.
uumm, righto. mines fine. im a fast typer and i dont need to 'slow down' for it, must be your keyboard. maybe there is sticky residue behind it
[Maybe] it's a feature that Apple recently introduced and you have an older Mac. This feature is so people don't activate caps lock by accident. Lame.
Open up a text editor and type on any letter as fast as you can and it will work fine. Now use a moderate speed on the caps lock key and it won't activate.
and windows actually does? to play a BD in windows you have to first 'decode' the disc with AnyDVD-HD to your HD then watch it.
No, you do NOT have to decode Blu-ray to your HDD to play it. AnyDVD-HD is for ripping Blu-ray discs. PowerDVD will play it no problem straight from disc.
http://www.cyberlink.com/products/movie-playback/powerdvd/overview_en_US.html
get a full size keyboard, wala!! you have a 'proper' delete key
Sure. I'll just tape it onto my laptop?
I'm not arguing against cut and paste, I'm simply saying, as I did before, that Apple has probably chosen to leave it out until they figure out what to do with it because it functions differently with files and folders than it does with text. You can't argue that.
I'm not arguing that. I'm arguing that it doesn't matter because you can always undo it.
You really have to leave undo out of the argument. Undo is a separate system function.
This makes no sense. There's no rules that say if you accidentally cut something you didn't mean to then you have to live with it and not use undo. It absolutely belongs in the argument because it renders your arguments a moot point.
I agreed that Mac OS X is inconsistent when it comes to quitting the application. It's inconsistent in many places, like Windows and like almost everything with a GUI.
Exactly. Who cares if it's inconsistent? It's useful. And there's ways to undo mistakes.
Tiling Windows - I don't think I'd use it. At most I'm using a few windows at a time.
Just to clarify for those that don't know, tiling windows is not the same as Exposé. Tiling windows will resize all the opened windows to fit perfectly on your desktop with no overlaps and without you having to do it manually. It's great when I'm moving files around (usually to various network drives/directories) and have multiple Explorer windows open. Most people don't know about, and it's not needed most of the time but it's very handy when you do need it.
Caps Lock - What computer are you talking about?
2008 Mac Pro and 2008 MacBook Pro. The caps lock key is gimp'd by Apple.
Further, what exactly is the use of caps lock? I've never found that key to be very useful. If I need a word in caps, I hold shift and type. I have big hands and I'm a touch typist, so I don't need to use my pinky if I don't want to. Why would anyone need to type in caps for any extended amount of time? If you give me a reason I'll be happy to acknowledge it.
First of all, the caps lock key is there (and prominent) for a reason. That should be your first clue on it's importance. Here are various reasons to use caps lock:
- Engineering and architectural drawings use all caps (required). Often the notes on a drawing can be many paragraphs long.
- Typing long acronyms. It's faster to hit caps lock and type the acronym than to hold down shift, especially if the acronym isn't easily typed in the first place.
- Not sure but some programming languages need caps lock?
- Passwords. Some use caps lock and hit shift for lowercase which allows for more caps without having to hit shift all the time. Suprisingly, hitting shift while in caps lock doesn't make the letter lower case on my Mac. Good one Apple.
- Manual writers, graphic artists doing printwork, lawyers, authors, basically anyone that has to deal with text and needs to write more than a few letters in caps would use caps lock.
Full Screen Button - Um Apple, if you're listening, please don't do this. I don't need my UI to be cluttered with another button I won't use. Thanks. When I used Windows I used maximize, now I don't miss it at all.
Are you kidding me? Adding another button up there with the red, yellow and green buttons will CLUTTER your UI?
Button Size - Is there any chance you're talking about an Apple Pro app? For some reason they do that and get away with it. This one is really the fault of the software developers, not OS X specifically.
Don't care whose fault it is. But it's pathetic that Apple can't get it's own pro apps to be uniform with its OS.
Forward Delete - You know I can see the usefulness in this, but I never use it on my full size keyboards. I know a lot of people do...I don't know why one would end up needing to forward delete often enough to complain about it.
What if I remapped your computer to where normal delete was Fn+delete and forward delete was just "delete". Would that annoy you?
Forward delete and normal delete do pretty much the same thing. Windows users are used to being able to use whichever method, depending on where the cursor is dropped. To suddenly lose the ease of bidirectional delete is annoying.
