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Your Favorite Mac OS X Feature
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SC68Cal said:
Yeah, but I'm not one of them. In fact I almost boycotted System 7 I only started using it for the first time when I got my 7100, which of course required 7.5 to boot. I had been using System 6 for the early System 7 era.
I tend to dislike early OS releases they break too many things I like to use from the system I've been using, and new substitutes often aren't out yet; and oftentimes the 3rd-party add-ons and hacks that get broken are more important to me than the shiny new features. And such was the case with MacOS 8.0, whose stupid spring-loaded folders broke PopupFolder.
8.0 was a dog but 8.1 improved on performance a lot, and the multithread-capable Finder brought a new level of user-friendliness to the Mac, and eventually I had apps that required 8 as minimum OS and reluctantly turned away from 7.6 and began booting 8.1 as my main OS.
At any rate, my rant is about PopupFolder, and how much better it was than SLFs. It still peeves me.
Expose and Spotlight.
I think Expose is a great evolution in interface design - Its certainly one of those 'how did I ever live without it?' features.
Spotlight allows me to lump all my files into their designated folders instead of leaving them "handy", cluttering up the desktop.
I think Expose is a great evolution in interface design - Its certainly one of those 'how did I ever live without it?' features.
Spotlight allows me to lump all my files into their designated folders instead of leaving them "handy", cluttering up the desktop.
terriyaki said:
i just double click the word then Ctrl+click it. much easier than Command+Ctrl+D.
Resurrection, but I had to add my favourite feature.
Sure the spell check feature is great, but being able to have anything read back to you is even better. That recent report that you've been working on you don't have to proof-read, but you have the ability to have someone (or something
) else read it to you. I just thought it was neato.
Sure the spell check feature is great, but being able to have anything read back to you is even better. That recent report that you've been working on you don't have to proof-read, but you have the ability to have someone (or something
) else read it to you. I just thought it was neato. 
I would probably be lost without:
1. Built-in Dictionary
2. Exposé
3. Spotlight
4. Finder sidebar
1. Built-in Dictionary
2. Exposé
3. Spotlight
4. Finder sidebar
LMAO!!
Cmd + H and the "ah-hem"'s disappears!! :O how'd they do that??
Now seriously, Exposé, Dashboard, System Preferences, Fast-User Switching, Spotlight, the DOCK!! I guess I could go all day!
Anyway, spring whatever folders rule, I think it's very well thought out, I guess I never had any problems with that, I drag a document to my Mac HD, it opens, ok, home folder, it opens, documents, it opens and I let go, it's perfect and I feel the lack of it everytime I boot in Windows.
Anyway, Mac OS rules! I even installed Shapeshifter yesterday and after 10 minutes I went back to the default look (with UNO), it looks so smooooth
The best feature is that it is window/document orientated, not application orientated, so you can drag and drop between documents easily, which brings me onto:
Drag and Drop.
[1] Drag a file onto an application in the Dock, it opens. Hold down command-option to force an app to open any file.
[2] You can Drag an icon a the top of the window in a document based application.
[4] You can use expose to show the desktop, get a file of the desktop and then drag it onto a finder window. Wait a couple of seconds and it brings that window to the front.
Another one:
[1] Hold down the command key and click on the title bar in a document based application and it shows you the path to that file.
[2] Do the same trick in Safari and it shows you the path to that file on the web-server.
Also, if you select four items, then double click on them, it opens those four items.
This may sound like common sense, but it actually doesn't work in windows. Instead windows just decides to open the file you have jut licke on.
I think people say Expose because it is new - but we lived without it! Ask the question in a year and people will say spaces.
I'm not knocking expose by the way, it is a very fantastic innovative feature.
I explained how it works to a windows user and they said - I don't need that, I've got the taskbar. I couldn't have explained it very well.
Drag and Drop.
[1] Drag a file onto an application in the Dock, it opens. Hold down command-option to force an app to open any file.
[2] You can Drag an icon a the top of the window in a document based application.
[4] You can use expose to show the desktop, get a file of the desktop and then drag it onto a finder window. Wait a couple of seconds and it brings that window to the front.
Another one:
[1] Hold down the command key and click on the title bar in a document based application and it shows you the path to that file.
[2] Do the same trick in Safari and it shows you the path to that file on the web-server.
Also, if you select four items, then double click on them, it opens those four items.
This may sound like common sense, but it actually doesn't work in windows. Instead windows just decides to open the file you have jut licke on.
I think people say Expose because it is new - but we lived without it! Ask the question in a year and people will say spaces.
I'm not knocking expose by the way, it is a very fantastic innovative feature.
I explained how it works to a windows user and they said - I don't need that, I've got the taskbar. I couldn't have explained it very well.
My dictionary works with Safari but not with Firefox, am I doing something wrong? I have an Intel iMac and Firefox 2.0. Thanks
It only works with cocoa apps.
Most of us users can't tell the difference, until they run across things like this.
I love that feature! Use it all the time when I watch CNN Pipeline videos.
luv ya bunches! xoxoxo
Probably the spell check in apps, as the OP said...but Expose has really made a difference in my life. I dunno how I lived without it! I always find my self hitting F9 when I'm on my Thinkpad not even realizing it, and getting frustrated trying to find a window thats minimized.