Joho the Blog
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November 19, 2005
The basics are working, or at least are on the way to working. I'm going through the many suggestions you've had for software. Heck, I've even installed a kickass screensaver, LotsaWater that makes it look like your desktop is under an inch of clear water during a rainstorm. Very cool. (Why aren't there screensavers like this on the PC? Maybe there are and I just haven't noticed.) I still feel like I'm driving on the wrong side of the road. But Britt Blaser has been incredibly helpful, answering the questions too dumb to be worth surfacing in public, such as: When I find something in Spotlight, how do I tell where it is on the disk? (A: Click on the info button next to the listing.) How do I eject a disk? (A: Click the function button, among other ways.) How do I delete a character forward, which is what the Delete key on Windows machines does? (A: Fn+Del ... pretty clumsy, actually). Britt's been great, answering my questions and insisting that they're not dumb when in fact we both know they are. Thanks, Britt. [Tags: macintosh BrittBlaser screensavers] Posted
by D. Weinberger at November 19, 2005 05:51 PM
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Verbal Kint: "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist."
from the movie, The Usual Suspects, 1995.
The greatest trick Steve Jobs ever pulled was convincing the world that the Mac was user-friendly.
Posted by: Mark Federman | November 19, 2005 06:24 PM
The questions are obviously dumb, but that's not the point. The point is that there's no shame in asking dumb questions – we were all there at some point. A year ago, when I was switching to Mac myself, I spent some twenty minutes surfing the web trying to figure out how to install Firefox on my Mac.
Posted by: George Sudarkoff | November 19, 2005 09:21 PM
You've been in prison for a while. It takes a little time to adjust to the freedom of Apple. You're used to rigidity and rules. When you get to know the intuitive fluidity of OS X, you'll never want to use Windows again.
Posted by: Noel Guinane | November 20, 2005 03:50 AM
The screensaver I really like is Electric Sheep, which you probably caught a glimpse of when I was presenting on Tuesday.
http://electricsheep.org/
It collaboratively renders (and lets you vote on) animated fractal images, and downloads a selection of the best ones.
Posted by: Kevin Marks | November 20, 2005 04:30 AM
If you don't already have it, I highly recommend David Pogue's "Mac OS X: The Missing Manual (Tiger Edition)"
It's loaded with the non-obvious shortcuts that permeate OS X.
Posted by: Bill O'Donnell | November 21, 2005 09:45 AM