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So, any cool OSX Tiger tricks/stuff I should know about now?

I'm googling around for sites. If you have a link to neat Mac software/tips/fun please let me know.




This new laptop rocks.
 
Opening a lot of windows and then repeatedly pressing F9 has yet to lose its appeal for me, and I've had my iBook since Xmas.
 
LOL!

Yes that is indeed fun.

I literally opened the box up on my powerbook an hour ago. This is so much nicer than my last laptops/desktops.
 
Customise your dock. You can place folders in there on the right, after the dividing line. If, for example, you have several chat applications, video players or peer-to-peer programs, collect them in a single folder and put it in the dock. Click and hold on that folder to get a menu containing all its contents. You can start an app from here.

Also, remember you can remove things from the dock too. If you're likely to be working on a project for some time, why not keep it in the dock until you've finished? You can get at it straight away, and dragging the icon to the wastebasket from here only removes the item from the dock, not from your hard disk.

Also, bookmark www.dashboardwidgets.com...
 
 
Ian Osborne said:
Customise your dock. You can place folders in there on the right, after the dividing line. If, for example, you have several chat applications, video players or peer-to-peer programs, collect them in a single folder and put it in the dock. Click and hold on that folder to get a menu containing all its contents. You can start an app from here.

Also, remember you can remove things from the dock too. If you're likely to be working on a project for some time, why not keep it in the dock until you've finished? You can get at it straight away, and dragging the icon to the wastebasket from here only removes the item from the dock, not from your hard disk.

Also, bookmark www.dashboardwidgets.com...
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Yeah I already reworked the dock. I've got terminal, logic 7 pro, firefox, and some other apps I use instead of their lineup.
 
Yeah, I've got a great tip...
  1. Turn off Apple laptop.
  2. Close the lid.
  3. Find a door that won't stay open.
  4. Jam the Apple laptop under the door, kicking it if necessary to ensure proper insertion.
  5. Go buy a REAL computer.
  6. Reinstall it to dual-boot XP pro and whatever distro of Linux you prefer.
Happy to help. ;)

Just kidding, dude. Having some fun at your expense. I'm STILL stuck at home sick. :( Got to get my fun somewhere, don't I?

Enjoy the new gear.
 
Freakshow said:
Yeah, I've got a great tip...
  1. Turn off Apple laptop.
  2. Close the lid.
  3. Find a door that won't stay open.
  4. Jam the Apple laptop under the door, kicking it if necessary to ensure proper insertion.
  5. Go buy a REAL computer.
  6. Reinstall it to dual-boot XP pro and whatever distro of Linux you prefer.
Happy to help. ;)

Just kidding, dude. Having some fun at your expense. I'm STILL stuck at home sick. :( Got to get my fun somewhere, don't I?

Enjoy the new gear.
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That sucks! Get better.

Hey OSX is killer. I used the Darwinport project to compile any linux tool I need.
 
An oldie-but-goodie:

Hold Shift to slow down system animations. This works with minimizing/maximizing windows (slow genie effect is neat), expose, dashboard and several other things.
 
Freakshow said:
Yeah, I've got a great tip...
  1. Turn off Apple laptop.
  2. Close the lid.
  3. Find a door that won't stay open.
  4. Jam the Apple laptop under the door, kicking it if necessary to ensure proper insertion.
  5. Go buy a REAL computer.
  6. Reinstall it to dual-boot XP pro and whatever distro of Linux you prefer.
Happy to help. ;)
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A Marilyn Manson fan with no taste. Who would've thought it?
 
You probably already know this with Safari --

But I love holding down the shift and open apple keys while clicking on links using Safari. This way, the pages load in the background and I keep browsing on the same page I was on. I use this all the time when browsing the new posts on JREF. I still have to find the equivalent in Explorer.

Scottch
 
Ian Osborne said:
A Marilyn Manson fan with no taste. Who would've thought it?
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:D

I actually like Mac's, for some purposes. But I was obligated to give Fowlsound a hard time about his new machine, as we've been trading PM's and talking about our laptops. :)
 
Dunno if this even needs saying, but several of my friends/ recent converts have been amazed by the concept of not bothering to turn it off everytime you wanna take it somewhere. Just snap the lid shut; it takes care of parking the hard drive and all that good stuff, and transports quite happily in sleep mode...

If it's been more than two or three weeks since a system patch that needed a reboot, I found things started getting a wee bit sluggish, but then I had (until a short while ago) a very small (10GB) hard-drive, so that may not be a problem anymore...
 
rudar said:
Dunno if this even needs saying, but several of my friends/ recent converts have been amazed by the concept of not bothering to turn it off everytime you wanna take it somewhere. Just snap the lid shut; it takes care of parking the hard drive and all that good stuff, and transports quite happily in sleep mode...
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Is that actually new to Mac laptops? Serious question. I'm not joking and being hypothetical. :)
 
I'm not even sure. This is why I wasn't sure if it even needed saying :)

All's I know is, several of my friends have been all like ``you can do that? It's not bad for the computer?''
 
If it helps any I am typing this on a five year old "clamshell" iBook, and it sleeps when you close it. So it's not particularly new for Apple laptops, although I do remember reviewers at the time I bought it cooing over the feature.

I have no idea what Windows laptops do, or did, or when they started doing it.
 
Freakshow said:
Is that actually new to Mac laptops? Serious question. I'm not joking and being hypothetical. :)
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No. It's been around awhile. It's not quite as deep a sleep as Windows XP's hibernation mode so it can draw your battery down if you let it sleep for long periods of time. Apple is big into never turn it off. The same technology in laptops is in the desktops and apple encourages never turn it off behavior.

The reason many Windows people find this so cool is:
a) wake from sleep is significantly faster than Windows wake from hibernate (since it doesn't have to recover memory from hard drive). The extra battery drain doesn't seem to bother users as much as they like the quick wake up.

b) letting windows run and run and run usually causes issues. Under Windows XP I find at least weekly reboots are mandatory. On my Mac it isn't unusual for me to let it run for months.

Kevin
 
kevin said:
No. It's been around awhile.
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Cool, that's why I asked. I thought it had been, which is why I was surprised somone brought it up in an OSX thread. I was a bit shocked, if it was something that was new.

b) letting windows run and run and run usually causes issues. Under Windows XP I find at least weekly reboots are mandatory. On my Mac it isn't unusual for me to let it run for months.
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I never have understood why some people have issues with Windows, unless they are running a lot more apps/services and 3rd party drivers than I am. I leave my XP machines running for months too, with no issues.
 
Freakshow said:
I never have understood why some people have issues with Windows, unless they are running a lot more apps/services and 3rd party drivers than I am. I leave my XP machines running for months too, with no issues.
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I think Windows might have more apps that leak memory than seems to be the case in OS X. or the OS does. I can't swear to it but it certainly seems like Windows seems to slowly page to memory more and generally slow down. We do run memory intensive cad applications at work that may play into it (but I run some pretty memory intensive video apps at home)
 
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