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Topic: My first Mac will be here Thursday!!!
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Adam Wilbert
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 590
From: Bellingham, WA, USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 06-16-2005 02:11 AM
quote: Joe Redifer
One thing I do like better about Mac Photoshop, though, is that it doesn't put a grey box behind my work making the app cover the entire screen.
I like it that way (with the grey background). I think it cleans up the workspace.
quote: Randy Stankey
I don't use a mouse 1/2 the time anyway. You can access most features of a Mac from the keyboard if you are smart.
You can do the same on a PC, and what I hear, in a more intuitive way. I'd rather press Alt-G, H in firefox to go "home" than "f2, right, right, right, down, down." as I understand OS X does it. (i'm not "hands on" yet, so don't yell at me if thats not right) Anyway, the shortcut hints are right there on the screen, and I don't have to memorize a slew of "command-letter" shortcuts. Besides, half the time i'm web surfing, i'm leaning back in by chair, feet up on the desk, with my mouse on my knee. Why would I want to lean forward to hold "control" while I click? I don't understand the arguments against a two button mouse. "I don't use a two-button mouse, its too complicated... i use a 101 key keyboard instead!" or alternatively, "I don't use a two button mouse, I just press control and click" (as if thats easier). But, in general, I would agree that using the keyboard is much much faster than the mouse will ever be.
quote: Randy Stankey
Both have two buttons but they are programmed to be the same.
I'm sorry, but thats just retarded. WHY? if your index finger gets tired, you can use another? What a waste of a button. Apple may have sold me on OS X, but they'll never take my multi-button-plus-scroll-wheel mouse.
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Joe Redifer
You need a beating today
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From: Denver, Colorado
Registered: May 99
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posted 06-16-2005 08:07 AM
You can drag a file to any folder, not just the hard drive and it will open like Mike says. Other things I find usefull:
-Assigning the Expose feature that the F9 button usually does to button 3 of your mouse (pressing on the scrollwheel). This will make it so that every single open window is visable, and you can click on one you want to be active. Click here to see an example with a TON of apps running.
-You know how you press Alt+Tab (I think) in Windows to cycle through the open apps? I'm not sure if it is the Alt button or not, but it is the button right next to the space bar on a Windows machine. Well you do the same exact thing on a Mac (except it uses the Apple button, which is still the one right next to the space bar). How do I know this when I say all windows users are necropheliacs? Well ummm... NEXT TIP!
-Double clicking the title bar of any floating window will minimize it to the dock. I almost never click the yellow or green buttons.
-Clicking the red button does NOT end the application like it does on Windows. It only close the window. If you want to quit, just press Apple+Q (for "Quit") or select QUIT from the application menu (furthest menu on left, under the app's name). No need to close windows manually.
-Go to your Applications folder/Utilies/disk utility and repair permissions on your startup disk every once in awhile... especially after large installs. It helps keep things smooth. Also be sure to do this before any OS update even if it is just a minor update. Do it again after the update is completed and twice on Sundays.
-Turn off auto software update. Like Windows, the updates are usually worse that what they are trying to fix. 10.4 Tiger is a mess compared to 10.3.9.
-Turn off the growing mouse-over effect (magnification) of the dock. It is retarded and makes selecting an application a bit more difficult since they are always moving as you mouse-over. Do not turn on auto-hiding for your dock. It is mega-annoying. Also in your dock preferences change the Minimizing mode to scale. The Genie mode takes twice to three times as long to accomplish the same task and looks goofy.
-In the Finder (this is what the desktop itself is called), press Apple+J and you can resize the icons and do crazy-insane stuff like that which will leave you breathless.
-Try to piss off Phil simply because he uses a PC and for no other reason. It is great fun, and as you can see I am having a fantastic time knowing that I have PWND him.
-Right click on any icon or folder and you can assign a certain color to it for quick identification (kind of like highlighting).
-You can place your scroll arrows at top and bottom instead of just together at the bottom, which I have always hated since Mac OS 8 or 9. But you should get a scroll-wheel mouse and you'll probably never use the arrows again anyway.
-Do NOT install the drivers that come with any mouse you purchase. Any USB mouse will work natively in OS X, right click, scrollwheel and all. Only install the drivers if you find that the mouse cursor doesn't move fast or slow enough with the default settings.
-In the sharing prefs, turn on personal file sharing as well as Windows sharing. This will let your Windows computer see and network seamlessly with the Mac.
-Keep your desktop as cluttered as possible. The chaos method of organization is obviously the best way, as every file on your computer is available directly on the desktop. Also, chicks dig it.
-A black triangle underneath an application in the dock means that program is currently running. You can right click on it's icon to click it. To remove something from the Dock forever, just drag it off of the Dock and watch the incredible Disney-quality animation.
-If you experience crashes while encoding Dolby Digital AC3 files for movies you've illegally pirated, disable one of the processors while encoding. The Dolby encoding program does not always play nicely with dual processor machines on super long encodes.
[ 06-16-2005, 02:27 PM: Message edited by: Joe Redifer ]
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Stephen Furley
Film God
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 06-16-2005 10:23 AM
quote: Joe Redifer
There are no PC DVD authoring apps anywhere near as good as DVD Studio Pro.
Joe, I've bought several cheap, 'home' type DVD software packages over the years, and they've all been next to useless. At the moment I've got an old Pentium, and a Mac Mini at home, but I'll soon have a top of the range G4 with Just about everything, as well. I've bought it, now I've just got to get somebody with a car to take me to collect it. The boxes will be too big to take on the bus easily. DVD Studio Pro 4 is just under 500 pounds here, say $900 ish, which I can't afford at the moment, but maybe next year. Can it be used as a stand-alone product, or does it have to be used with Final Cut, Soundtrack pro, etc.? I couldn't afford the whole pachage. I want to work with archive material from old video tapes, and, later, 16mm film. I've no intention of doing my own telecine, I'd get that done professionally.
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Stephen Furley
Film God
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From: Coulsdon, Croydon, England
Registered: May 2002
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posted 06-16-2005 11:49 AM
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C'Mon! You click on the START button to shut the computer OFF!? Really!?
Wheras on a Mac, pre system X, you click on the 'special' menu to do the same thing. What's so 'special' about shutting the thing down. ![[Confused]](confused.gif)
The first x86 machines I worked on were Research Machines Nimbus. Ran MS/Dos, but the bios, and some of the hardware was not IBM pompatible, though an emulator was available to run some CGA software. Windows 1, and later 2, was available for it, this was a special version, though standard versions of Windows applications could then be run, though almost all software was DOS then, Dos version was 3.1. In almost all ways that the RM equipment differed from the IBM pc the RM one was better, 720k 3.5 inch floppies, 20MB. internal, and/or up to 60MB. external hard disks via SASI interface. Slightly higher vertical resolution, and more colours on screen than CGA, more 'usable' memory than the 640MB. The processor was an Intel 80186, not widely used, but basically an 8086 with a few extra components on board, and a few extra instructions, which nobody used, because hardly any other machines would be able to run the code.
I had previously worked on 8080 and Z80, and remember being rather dubious about a processor with a 24 bit address bus, but only 16 bit index reqisters. It could be a real pain doing things like sorting large (to big for one segment) data, and having to deal with long pointers, fiddle around with segment registers, etc.
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