Posted on 12/26/2008 2:36:02 AM PST by Swordmaker
Happy New Year! ;-)
(Actually, I use Ultimate Edition (Ubuntu) at home ...with a Vyatta router...rather than the Fedora distribution...but the blasted Ubuntu stuff is too PC to advertise here)
And Wine has worked pretty well for any Windows applications I have needed at home.
But I would NEVER advocate converting client boxes at work to Linux -- it would be FAR too much of a headache.
I’m not an expert on Macs, heck barely above novice but ..
To eject a flash drive or anything else I’ve plugged into my Mac, I right click on the device icon on the desktop. Select ‘eject’ and the
icon disappears.
I’ve got a question...
In Win XP, I could hold the ‘CTRL’ key while highlighting a file and then another many files away. Every file between those 2 files would highlight.
I haven’t found an equivalent in OSX. Is there one?
The desktop icon tip in how i eject the Canon but there is no icon for the Nikon?
Now back to your XP question... You will have to ask someone with a brain, like the Tin Man or the Lion...
Yes. Click on the first file then hold [Shift] and click on the ending file of a list you want to be inclusive. All files between the two will also be highlighted.
Even slicker: hold down the [Command] key and click on files and select any, skipping any between [Command] clicked files. Much more useful.
thank you Swordmaker, and a belated Merry Christmas to you!
As typed on my MacBook Pro 2.4, 160 gig.
And happy Christmas recipient of an iPod Touch 32g.
Well, first of all, what’s this “Windows” you keep talking about? ;’)
Was Santa good to you?
But for some people phone tech support is a large part of their social life.
ping for later
Hey, Swordmaker! Belated Merry Christmas!
Since we last talked, I got my Macbook Pro, @ the week before Thanksgiving. Thanks for all your help! Couldn’t be happier—unless I had more time to spend playing with it! The worst problem I’ve had is trying to scroll down at work by dragging two fingers across my desk—couldn’t figure out why the page wasn’t doing anything—until I remembered I wasn’t on my Mac at home. LOL
Isn't that the mythological character that comes around in his sleigh at Easter?
The Christmas Bunny was very good to me. I found lots of eggs under my tree...
Hmmmm,
Try this...click on 'Finder', and look for it in the left column. Then highlight, right click....,
I must be brain dead because I swear I tried the 'Shift' key before. After I posted I found it, thanks.
I've been using the 'Command' trick but when I'm moving 30+ pictures it's a pain. Plus if you happen to double click on a pic you lose all the highlights and have to start over.
Last night I xferred some pics from my camera to the MacBook Pro and showed them to my SiL. They were really nice.
He loaded them onto his Dell laptop and the difference was apparent. They weren't nearly as clear, sharp, colorful.
He noted it.
One other point, the iPhoto editor is terrific, better than any commonly used editor IMHO .
With one glaring exception. No way to reduce the pic size to my liking. I can e-mail a reduced pic to myself. (No control over size, just 3-4 choices).
I just opened and set up my new 20 Inch iMac less than an hour ago. The keyboard is strange, the mouse is stranger, so far I have managed to convince it I live in Tokyo and not Cupertino. That’s all I can report at this time.
Hey, Ronin.
Click on the black Apple logo in the upper left corner and select System Preferences. in the second row, select Keyboard and Mouse. Select the Mouse tab and check out the settings. If you are not getting a Right Button, you can turn it on here. You also might want to tweak the tracking, scrolling, and double click speeds while your there.
I got that taken care of and have set my clock. I downloaded Firefox but it still doesn’t seem as friendly as the Windows version.... not yet anyhow.
But the weather application in the dashboard still insists on giving me Cupertino weather and when I try to click on it it just goes to the application home page but I can’t figure how to reset it to Tokyo.
Oh well.... I’ll get it figured out sooner or later.
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