5/6/2023 0 Comments Xgestures mac![]() I read through you entire post and it seems that most of your complaints are from you expecting Mac OS X to behave like Windows. I did like a lot of things on the mac when I was working but that list is much longer and I just needed to resolve the above list to be happy with the operating experience. If I can rectify most of these issues I'm having I will probably make the mac my next purchase. I know this list looks like I'm bashing Apple but I assure you it is not. I can't trust this machine, I have to go to 'get info' on every file just to determine whether or not it is the actual file or a pointer to the file. This also messed me up when I tried to burn a CD and found out that instead of burning the file that I wanted, it burned a shortcut. I put in a blank CD and dragged some media to my desktop only to find out that it was just copying shortcuts after I ejected the CD. Surfing websites and watching movies it seems you can't make the videos full screen, you can't search streaming video, and the play bar constantly stops moving even though the video is still playing.ġ1. and even if they did I would be able to find about 6 other free programs that would play the videos in full screen for free with tonnes of free support.ġ0. What the heck is that all about?! Is fullscreen some sort of feature that you need to pay for on a mac? I don't get it, I've been using Windows for years and MS never charges money for such a feature. Quicktime refuses to play anything for me in fullscreen unles I pay Apple money. Without typing in UNIX commands into the terminal, how can I see what processes are running at any given moment and how can I kill some of these processes?ĩ. jpg using iphoto then import them to imovie again. bmp files that were scanned in with the Ken Burns effect turned a bright red. In windows if you maximize a window it becomes flush with the taskbar at the bottom and you know the boundaries and where you can and can't click. Sometimes I would open garageband by accident and then everything would be loading up while I was trying frantically to stop it from doing so. When trying to click buttons on the bottom of the screen it automatically pops up and I have to move my mouse around icons to try and click a button. ![]() I find the Doc extremely obtrusive and annoying. Perhaps some will accuse me of being overly cheap but if it is offered in Windows for free then any ideas why there aren't a lot of programs like this offered on the mac for free?Ħ. a lot of these little programs on the mac you have to pay for. I use the mouse gesture software strokeit on Windows all the time but the only equivalent I can see on the mac you have to pay money for. In the mean-time I have all these windows in the background that are distracting, I just want the window to take up the full screen. If I press the "plus" sign on the window it just makes it slightly larger to read whatever is being presented. ![]() Dear lord there is no 'maximize' window button. It would never let me browse the HD for photos. Why are all photos managed through iphoto? I was trying to use imovie to make a video but I always had to go through iphoto. This makes uninstalling items a serious pain.ģ. I don't understand why there are files located all over the HD and not all in one localized folder. What is the file structure? I spend 10 minutes trying to find where the Applications folder physically exists on the HD but I couldn't find it. I read on a forum that you can type in a bunch of commands to the terminal to fix this but shouldn't it come standard into the operating system (10.5) without having to know all the UNIX commands?Ģ. Even when you increase the speed in the configuration settings it is still very very slow. The mighty mouse is God Awful slow at tracking. Here is a quick list of some of the things that drove me crazy this weekend. I grew up with DOS and Windows and my family used to have an old Apple II years and years ago. I use windows everyday in my work as an Electrical Engineer and at home. I won't go into deep detail about how the mac had to be replaced 3 times in the period of 6 months after the purchase because of a faulty logic board, faulty HD, and faulty design to dissipate heat but I just sat down to use it this weekend as I am house sitting and wanted to give my impressions.įirst off, I would consider myself a windows power user. I tried pretty much everything above for a token app called SecurID we use for VPN access for work.A while ago I convinced my parents to purchase a mac because they were basically computer illiterate.
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