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Good list. Some of it's true, although I now cannot live in Windows because of the same keyboard issues: I'm so used to Control+A and E for home/end that I don'
by generalk 16y ago
Good list. Some of it's true, although I now cannot live in Windows because of the same keyboard issues: I'm so used to Control+A and E for home/end that I don't know what to do without it.
Here's some awesome things that make up for the switch:
* If you have a File dialog open (file upload to a website, open file in any application, etc.) you can drag a file icon into it. The dialog will switch to the folder that file lives in, and highlight it.
* The little File icon at the top of file windows (say, TextEdit)? Those are so-called "proxy" file icons. Take that icon and drag it to an email to attach it, to the desktop to copy/move it, etc. Or drag it into a File dialog as described above!
* Command+Space opens Spotlight. Launch programs, search for documents, or do simple calculations. (quick, what's 2567/180 ?)
* Easily rebind your Caps Lock key to something useful from the Keyboard System Preferences pane. Lots of old UNIX geeks like to make it Control. It makes the Control+A/E exceedingly easy.
* Growl. It's not a Mac OS X builtin, but it's a must-install. I describe it to PC users this way: "Those little popups that Outlook does when you get new mail? Growl is a system-wide service that gives those to any application that wants them.
Those are the easy ones I can think of off the top of my head. After the initial transition period was over, I found I couldn't go back to using Windows.
- elblanco 16y ago> Growl. It's not a Mac OS X builtin, but it's a must-install. I describe it to PC users this way: "Those little popups that Outlook does when you get new mail? Growl is a system-wide service that gives those to any application that wants them. I wish Apple would just buy Growl or something and just build it in, the lack of a notification system in a modern OS was bizarre to me when I first realized it was missing. It's something that's missing in both OSX and iOS.