A month with a Mac and I wish I could.....

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1. Click something to take me straight back to the desktop without having to minimise everything.
2. Fix the 'Window' to the top menu bar. I find this especially annoying when you realise that the menu bar you are looking at is not the menu bar for the app you are trying to alter.
3. Open a Directory (sorry, 20 years of Windows is a hard habit to break) and use the same window to open the next directory inside rather than open a new (and back).

I post in the hope that someone can steer me in the right direction to put these things right, else there is room below to discuss what the forum wants to see in Snow Leopard!

Chris
 
Tulipone said:
1. Click something to take me straight back to the desktop without having to minimise everything.
2. Fix the 'Window' to the top menu bar. I find this especially annoying when you realise that the menu bar you are looking at is not the menu bar for the app you are trying to alter.
3. Open a Directory (sorry, 20 years of Windows is a hard habit to break) and use the same window to open the next directory inside rather than open a new (and back).

I post in the hope that someone can steer me in the right direction to put these things right, else there is room below to discuss what the forum wants to see in Snow Leopard!

Chris
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Chris

With regard to number one, just set up spaces and always leave the first space with nothing working in it... then just select that when you want you desktop.

Number two... if you are using spaces and fix an application to the space you should not have this trouble anymore as each application will be open in its own area... (I think .. I am sure I will be corrected soon...)

You can view you directory / folder structure in one window no problem, when you have finder open select column view and you are sorted no more problems.

Regards

Nigel
 
:agree: with Nigel... :thumbs: ... and since I found Spaces life with the Mac has never been better... :D ... a most excellent tool imhgo... ;)






:p
 
1. Click something to take me straight back to the desktop without having to minimise everything.
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do new fangled macs not have hot corners. I'd be lost if I couldn't see all my open apps or the desktop with one swish of the mouse.
 
Shutterman said:
Chris

With regard to number one, just set up spaces and always leave the first space with nothing working in it... then just select that when you want you desktop.

Number two... if you are using spaces and fix an application to the space you should not have this trouble anymore as each application will be open in its own area... (I think .. I am sure I will be corrected soon...)

You can view you directory / folder structure in one window no problem, when you have finder open select column view and you are sorted no more problems.

Regards

Nigel
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I never really understood Spaces - I think that the light came on with answer 1.

Answer number 2, very closely aligned with answer 1. Perhaps I should retitle with 'Mac - a month in and I just found how useful Spaces was.'

Actually now that you have explained answer 3, I think that I knew that, just did not associate it.

Overall, Macs are pretty nice aren't they? Thanks for the help.

Chris
 
Okay, since I am on a roll may I also ask how you guys set up your Dock? Do you hide it? Add loads of apps to it (like I do, but wish that I didn't) as going through Finder is a pain (or Go).

Chris
 
Tulipone said:
1. Click something to take me straight back to the desktop without having to minimise everything.
2. Fix the 'Window' to the top menu bar. I find this especially annoying when you realise that the menu bar you are looking at is not the menu bar for the app you are trying to alter.
3. Open a Directory (sorry, 20 years of Windows is a hard habit to break) and use the same window to open the next directory inside rather than open a new (and back).

I post in the hope that someone can steer me in the right direction to put these things right, else there is room below to discuss what the forum wants to see in Snow Leopard!

Chris
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To show your desktop, just set one of the corners in Exposé to show the Desktop!!! Then all you have to do is move your mouse to the selected corner of the screen, and lo and behold the Desktop is shown with all running apps in that Space disappeared!

Easy.
 
Keep up John, we've sorted that one. ;):lol:
 
Tulipone said:
Okay, since I am on a roll may I also ask how you guys set up your Dock? Do you hide it? Add loads of apps to it (like I do, but wish that I didn't) as going through Finder is a pain (or Go).

Chris
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Hmmm, custom everything!

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dazzajl said:
Keep up John, we've sorted that one. ;):lol:
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I'm not sure - I thought that the spaces answer was great - but John has a good point. If spaces are valuable - and I now understand that they are - using a Hot Corner for Expose is even better. Certainly worth a trial run. Setting up a Hot Corner gets Expose off the Dock at least!

Chris
 
Tulipone said:
I'm not sure - I thought that the spaces answer was great - but John has a good point. If spaces are valuable - and I now understand that they are - using a Hot Corner for Expose is even better. Certainly worth a trial run. Setting up a Hot Corner gets Expose off the Dock at least!

Chris
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Surely so does using a mouse button for the same action... :shrug:






:p
 
What is Hot Corners and how does it work?
 
Basically you allocate a 'task' to each corner - for example 'show desktop' and each time you float your cursor into the corner it carries out that task... :shrug:

Float it by again and it undoes the task... :D



Magic of Mac... :naughty:






:p
 
Cool, i'm liking corners!! What a clever little beastie the Mac is!!
 
FWIW I use Exposé assigned to the bottom right corner to show the desktop.

With regards to the dock, I have it a fixed size, showing all the time, with only the 9 most used applications, then stacks for applications (means you don't need to go into finder to find your less used applications), documents and downloads with the trash can at the end.
 
I just ask questions on here, it's far cheaper :D :D :D
 
Thanks for the tip about corners, I was also frustrated about the whole "Returning to desktop" business :D
 
You can press CMD + F3 to hide all your windows to the side to display your desktop!

Also to open files in a new finder window without taking forever, just hold in CMD as you double click it! works with websites too.

Hope this helps let me know if it does.
 
My personal favourite tip at the moment is to highlight a file and simply tap space to view the contents.

I also quite like Automator. I don't use it much but managed to set it up to convert a number of images (I'd scanned) from a somewhat wierd format to jpgs at the touch of a button. So much quicker than loading each into photoshop and resaving.
 
chrisforshaw said:
How do I make my safari window bigger? At the moment I can't seem to make it any bigger and when I used zoom it gets smaller!! Got my mac yesterday...pretty happy so far
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Drag the bottom right hand corner of the Safari window :thumbs: it should have 3 little lines on it

rtjdesign said:
You can press CMD + F3 to hide all your windows to the side to display your desktop!

Also to open files in a new finder window without taking forever, just hold in CMD as you double click it! works with websites too.

Hope this helps let me know if it does.
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I thought it was FN + F11 :thinking:
 
How cool :D
 
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