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What is not there by default is not a feature.gx_saurav said:*img46.imageshack.us/img46/7479/windowspreviewjm9.th.jpg
Did u mentioned something. Too bad Windows has been showing preview of Images & Movie files since Windows ME. You can add any file to preview in Explorer itself using simple plug-in based mechanism. I have myself added PDF & PSD Preview by simply using plug-in available on MSDN.You can preview the whole video in it. Even seek the timeline. Watch before you say something cos now I can simply test it in Mac
What do you need the address bar for?gx_saurav said:
No, this is not Windows, this is Mac OS X. There are some user interface conventions. Mac OS X does not use tooltips like Windows and it is certainly not a drawback. In the view options in the Finder ('Command + J'), you can set it to "Show item info". After that the Finder will show you the number of files in folders in the icon view. This is what appears on the tooltip in Windows. Of course, the best is the column view which shows you all the files and the preview. Mac OS X is not Windows and if it starts behaving like Windows, that will be a drawback. Tooltips are so annoying that you have an option in AutoPatcher to turn them off. Of course, it is a matter of preference. I am not saying either method is wrong, but yes, I certainly miss the Column view of the Finder when I am forced to use Windows on other people's computers.gx_saurav said:
Dragging a file from one column to another takes only one hand, at least for a human being.gx_saurav said:Yo, I don’t have 3 hands
Dragging a file and hitting the shortcut 'Command + Up' (the two buttons are really close on the right hand side of the keyboard) takes only two hands if you are normally equipped by God.
First of all, I never lie. Out of the nearly three thousand posts I have on this forum, if you can find me one where I lied, I'll do whatever you ask me to. (Of course, I might make some mistakes sometimes like saying that the iSight camera works with a PC, but I have never lied purposely.)gx_saurav said:Arya, clearly you are lying now. I just checked myself. I made a folder in my Home drive “files”. Inside it I made another folder “Downloads” Now I copied a file in “Downloads”. These all folders are in Macintosh HD. Now I went to my downloads folder & tried to cut a file so that I can paste it back to files folder. Here is an eye opener, despite of both Files & downloads folder being on same Mac HD there was no cut option. Want me to show u a video now
As for the topic at hand, I said that the Finder has the "cut-paste functionality". I know, and you know, that the Cut option under the Edit menu does not work. You have to use drag and drop, and I prefer that.
Preview is meant for previewing your images and PDFs, not managing them. It is not a photo managing application. It serves one purpose and does that spectacularly well.gx_saurav said:
As for the Mac OS not having a photo managing application, if you are using a Mac at your nearest Apple Store, you'll see iPhoto right there in the dock. I have the Mac OS X install discs that came with my notebook and the whole of iLife is there on it. Any person on this forum who buys a Mac gets iLife along with it. It is not for Apple to make sure that those who pirate their operating system get the full benefit of it. Anyway, since you are already pirating the operating system, you might as well pirate iLife too and use it. Either way, I don't give a damn.
What is not there by default is not a feature.gx_saurav said:
I have had many a moment of grief as a Windows user when I wanted to move an application from the Program Files folder and I had to uninstall it, re-download the installer and then re-install it elsewhere. If Windows does not do it, you do not need it. Logic at its best!gx_saurav said:
What is the Applications folder for then? It is also "a centralized shared location for all your" applications.gx_saurav said:
I have an applications TubeSock that downloads YouTube videos but it downloads only one at a time. All I had to do was press the option key and drag the application and leave it to make a copy of it. Or right click on it and select 'Duplicate'. Now I could run both of them at once and download two videos together. I can make multiple instances of Yahoo! Messenger for use with various accounts and a copy or two of VLC to play two-three videos simultaneously.gx_saurav said:And why do you want to have 2 copies of same app for same user
Oh, I can think of a lot of uses for this feature already. We are discussing the drawbacks in Mac OS X here and are tearing apart Windows' shortcomings instead because it is hard to do so for Mac OS X.
No windows ever go below the dock unless you move them to such a position. It was a bug in previous versions of Mac OS X but Apple has fixed it in Tiger.gx_saurav said:About the so called “zoom” feature for Mac. Here is the thing. With automatic zoom safari & firefox were going out of my monitor screen when I opened some pages
As for the zoom and maximise thing, like I said, you can always drag a window to stretch over the whole screen and then use it. It won't become small again. But I prefer to do a lot of things at once, thank you very much.
Oh, I know all about the fonts folder and it is one of the reasons why the Mac OS X approach is so superior to it. FontBook is such a nifty application - you can preview your fonts at all sizes, view all the different variations of it, group and manage your fonts under several categories, disable certain fonts, keep track of the ones that were there by default and the ones that you installed yourself, you can validate your fonts and font files that you haven't even installed yet, view all the detailed info about the fonts individually, remove duplicates... I could go on. Installing fonts only requires you to double click on them.gx_sauav said:I wonder how u once lied “ I m using windows from 6 years & m quite proficient in it” when you have not even seen the fonts folder in Windows
Installing a font, simply copy it to fonts folder
Uninstalling a font , simply delete it
Preview a font, simply double click on it.
In windows font is just a file like any other file & you can do whatever you want with it.
I would've thought that being into graphic designing, etc. yourself, you would at least have some sense of what a wonderful utility it is.
Oh, and BTW, if someone needs to do it the sucky Windows way, there is the same sort of Fonts folder in the Library. You can access it from the FontBook application to. Needless to say, I haven't even seen that folder yet.
SuperFetch has come in Windows Vista but of course you are used to not multi-tasking from your Windows XP days.gx_saurav said:
Tooltip - Not behaving like Windows is a virtue, not a flaw.gx_saurav said:
Cut - Already accepted that this is a flaw.
Address bar - You need to tell me why you need it.
Go back toolbar button - Command + Up. This does the job. But if you need to do so, you can right click on the toolbar in Finder, select the option 'Customize Toolbar...' and drag the 'Path' button onto the toolbar.
It is no surprise that I don't see any flaws when there aren't any listed by you to be seen.
No, you didn't. You wouldn't. You hate the operating system. If it was being such a bother, you wouldn't have gone through the pain of sitting around and re-installing it.gx_saurav said:
When I use the BSNL DataOne modem, all I needed to do was connect it, enter the user name and password and it was connected. It keeps disconnecting when I am using XP or Vista and I used to complain to them a lot about it and they even changed my modem once, but it kept disconnecting every fifteen minutes or so. And it never disconnects while being used with Mac OS X. I don't even know what the problem is but as long as it works fine with Mac OS X, I don't have a problem.gx_saurav said:
Like I said, it is hardly Apple's fault that you are using a pirated version of the operating system without buying a Mac. There is no retail version of Mac OS X for Intel Macs available today. Anyone who buys a Mac gets iLife with it. So, if Apple does not bundled iLife's next version with Leopard, then we it will be a huge drawback. Till then, it is not. You get iLife if you buy a Mac and you cannot buy Mac OS X without a Mac. So there is no way you can get Mac OS X without iLife.gx_saurav said:
No, I just tested it. I started downloading Windows Media Player from Microsoft's website and I stopped the download and quit Safari when it had downloaded 348 KB. I then launched Safari again and when I clicked on 'Resume', it resumed the download from that point onwards. Maybe the thing you were downloading did not support download resume.gx_saurav said:
And while we are on the subject, I just have to mention something amazing about Safari's downloading. I was downloading a file from RapidShare once that was about 98 MB in size. After a little while I forgot all about the download and like I generally do, simple hit the power button and hit enter to shut down the machine with all the applications open. I immediately remembered the Safari download and cursed myself. But just then, a window popped up (and if I remember correctly, it had a countdown thing... though I am not sure about that) asking me whether I really wanted to shut down which would stop my current unfinished download. I was so thrilled. I just cancelled it and waited for Safari to finish downloading the file and then shut down my machine. This is called intuitiveness, impeccable good software design.
There are more than three thousand Dashboard widgets out there in ever shape and size imaginable. Which widget didn't you find?gx_saurav said:
Whatever. You say that like it is a bad thing. There are all sorts of window management features in Mac OS X - with the keyboard, the mouse or even without any of them (well, you sill need to drag the mouse though). Exposé is the best feature ever on any operating system.gx_saurav said:
Blah, blah, blah. "Since Microsoft cannot design a good user interface, let's bark the loudest to justify it!"gx_saurav said:
Wrong. Camino, Shiira and OmniWeb all integrate with Keychain Access. It is up to the developer to integrate Keychain Access with their applications, not Apple. And it is up to the user to switch to better web browsing alternatives when they switch to a better operating system. If you insist on sticking with a browser that has as horrible and un-Mac-like an interface as Firefox's, Apple cannot do much for you anyway.gx_saurav said:
First of all, I have yet to find something that I need keyboard shortcuts for and they are not there by default. Second, if I ever need to add a keyboard shortcut for any feature in any application, it is extremely easy to do so. So I don't have any idea what you are complaining about here.gx_surav said:
You've got it all wrong. No wonder you guys are so screwed up.gx_saurav said:
Pressing the option key and dragging something will create a copy of that application in the new place or even in the same folder. For moving a file/folder, you simply need to drag it. Do not press the option key. Basically, option-drag is copy-paste and drag is cut-paste.
When you drag a file/folder over any folder (or the items in the sidebar or on any window when Exposé is active), press the space bar key to go further into that folder (it will automatically spring open after a few seconds if you hover the mouse over it).
Dragging something to the sidebar will make a virtual alias for it in the sidebar so that you have quick access to it.
Is it clear now?
At the end of the day, we're still stuck at five drawbacks. If gx_saurav gives us a good reason why he needs the address bar, we might even have six. What an achievement!
BTW, I'll find a keyboard utility and a WMA player for you. I searched on MacUpdate but it does not seem to be there. I'll need to ask in some Apple forum.
& what does that supposed to mean. If some one doesn't like what you like, does that means he is an idiot ?
, running it the way we want it (Default or disected), modding it the way we want it.
