whoa i just hit the worg key command and my shit went buck, the dashboard editing mode came up behind everything so that the add widget viewer was on the bottom of the screen but the active widgets were behind chrome w/only their little x's for removal showing AND i was in some weird fullscreen mode where the top menu bar was hidden - i got really confused, mashed my keyboard and ended up restarting
― ice cr?m, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
wtf that was terrifying
something similar happened to me last week after I exited a vid chat in ichat, had to hold the power button down
― Whiney G. Blutfarten (dayo), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:13 (thirteen years ago) link
YOU WERE STARING IN2 TH MAINFRAME
― max, Tuesday, 20 September 2011 23:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i was just in terminal trying to rip out the fuckin google talk plugin
i did not succeed
― markers, Monday, 3 October 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
rm . . . de
― markers, Monday, 3 October 2011 03:09 (thirteen years ago) link
sudo rm -fr /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/googletalkbrowserplugin.plugin /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/npgtpo3dautoplugin.plugin
― jeff tWEEDy (diamonddave85), Monday, 3 October 2011 03:46 (thirteen years ago) link
ty!
― markers, Monday, 3 October 2011 04:30 (thirteen years ago) link
the special characters window is more useful x1000
― shaane, Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
now i can edit the id3 tags for princes Sign ☮ The Times with ease
― shaane, Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:33 (twelve years ago) link
lol
any other tips? i'm just getting my way around it. this is the first time i've really used gestures and they are awesome. i want gestures for EVERYTHING, like window closing, for instance. switching tabs. etc
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
if you flip off your mac it detects it using FaceTime™ and formats itself...wasting all of your data
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Thursday, 13 October 2011 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
Guys I realize this marks me out as tremendously pedestrian but I like Launchpad... a LOT
Mainly because of the sleek fucking little gesture used to invoke it
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:08 (twelve years ago) link
lol i turned that shit off
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:09 (twelve years ago) link
I love Launchpad. I don't have a touchpad, but I assigned F1 to it and put all my key applications on the first page. This is useful for me because I keep my dock hidden. So I just hit F1 and select whatever needs opening.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
I use Spotlight to launch most apps :/
― avant-garde heterosexuals (mh), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
I hate spotlight
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
― dan selzer, Friday, 14 October 2011 08:33 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
http://virturl.com/pile/art/faces/disgust.jpg
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
btw Launchpad is fiddly and ill-thought out and woefully inconsistent and disgustingly savage
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:42 (twelve years ago) link
Once again, AA, we have to disagree, because something that works perfectly fine and simply for me is frustrating to you.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
The thing I don't get about hating Spotlight is that it's completely and totally out of your way unless you need it (although so is Launchpad now that I think about it)
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
I initially hated spotlight because it's key command conflicted with very basic Adobe key commands, then because it's indexing took forever. Now I just don't need it...because I don't have to search for things if I already know where they are.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
gestures are incredibly useful. they nullify most of the shit i would use keyboard shortcuts to do. mission control is also key. i tried really hard to drink the spaces/expose kool-aid but that drug just wasn't working. the double-tap gesture for mc on my magic mouse is freakin delightful. launchpad is useful when i need it. i mostly use spotlight for launching tho.
its been hard to parse whats good about what bc I'm coming off of 6 yrs on a G4, now on an i7. I'm pretty overwhelmed.
app store is kinda clutch. I'm glad i can give 99¢ to the developer of I Love Stars w/ two clicks. über universal apps would be good so i don't have to buy pages twice.
tighter integration w/ iOS would be good. like being able to move anything from one to the other.
i have a feeling that apples going to rule the 21st century.
― shaane, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
I initially hated spotlight because it's key command conflicted with very basic Adobe key commands, then because it's indexing took forever.
Ah, I see what you mean. You can change the keyboard shortcut iirc, and I think you can even reduce the indexing by telling it to not index anything.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
I've done both.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:52 (twelve years ago) link
i tried really hard to drink the spaces/expose kool-aid but that drug just wasn't working.
I've done away with Spaces altogether, which I HATED doing because I've been using virtual desktops for maybe 15 years. I have a few apps in full screen mode but it's a compromise, and if ever I want to e.g. drag music into itunes I have to un-full screen it.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Just on Spotlight, I use it for everything all the time because I'm a hacky terminal user from way back, and find it easier and faster to type part of the name of something than go looking for it in folders/menus (although I do recognise that that's just me)
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 21:55 (twelve years ago) link
why do you have to un-fullscreen iTunes? you can drag and hold files at the edge of the screen to move over to the full screen app.
― shaane, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
wow I had no idea, cheers
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
i rarely ever go looking for some random file. usually what i need is in an app thats already open or one of the folders on the dock which i clean out regularly. so i use spotlight only to launch apps that i use occasionally.
― shaane, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
spotlight is great for launching apps
― markers, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:03 (twelve years ago) link
I tried spotlight out for 2 minutes in tiger and have never used it since
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
its good for searching for things
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:09 (twelve years ago) link
ha. tiger in spotlight blew chunks all over grandmas new dress.
― shaane, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
er, spotlight in tiger
I have reserved my top right INFINITE PIXEL to expose though, launchpad is much better for app launching
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
I have been using Spotlight equivalents in Win (Launchy) and Ubuntu (gnome-do) for years. Could not live without them.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
hot corner users, dire barbarians each one
― ice cr?m, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:14 (twelve years ago) link
upper-left for show desktop is useful
― shaane, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:19 (twelve years ago) link
I have never had an upper left corner. OMG
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
I made it into "post I Miss You youtube"
upper left is apple menu, you monster
bottom left and right are useful.
if the only launching you ever do with spotlight is just running applications it's just about fine (although the amount of crap i have to scroll through to launch itunes after typing "it" is kind of amazing), but alfred or launchbar are _way_ better for everything spotlight does except actual searching.
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
aa, if you are a hacky terminal user you should try one of those, or quicksilver
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
― shaane, Friday, 14 October 2011 09:19 (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Not judging but what do you use show desktop for? I never ever need to show my desktop.
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
I installed alfred once but all it did was return snide erudite one-liners
― 2001: a based godyssey (dayo), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
I should definitely look at Alfred, been hearing good things recently
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
i have never used alfred tbf. i hear it mentioned. launchbar all the way.
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:27 (twelve years ago) link
they keep threatening to resurrect quicksilver but afaict the og developer is basically insane and its open source community is not much better.
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.alfredapp.com/powerpack/
http://www.alfredapp.com/images/powerpack/itunes-mini-player.jpg
― Autumn Almanac (Schlafsack), Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link
if you don't use the desktop then obv show desktop is not useful. i just use the default expose shortcut for that when i need it.
bottom left hot corner is lock screen for me.
― caek, Thursday, 13 October 2011 22:29 (twelve years ago) link