Hold option to close all windows in an app at once, like opt-click the front Word document and they all close, prompting to save of course. Works with minimize and zoom, too. For instance, after using Exposé to look over the images, opt-click minimize to drop all Photoshop documents into the Dock at once, a useful trick with those nice little thumbnail icons.
Hold command (Apple) to drag, scroll and resize windows in the background. Metal windows can be dragged by any exposed metal surface area as always.
Macdesktops.com--a great collection of photographic desktops, and they put the copyright under the menubar so you don't have to look at it.
Quicktime movies will play in the Dock with live video. Nice for news junkies who can stream news into a Dock icon listening to the audio, then pop it up into a window when the story gets good. It's mostly talking heads most of the time anyway. Plus it's fun to set magnification up and watch the live video thumbnail resize while you scrub the mouse over it.
* Sorry, but if 2-4GB System Memory is required for good performance, than the Mac contingent has no legs to stand on to argue that Windows is "bloatware" *
I'm running 10.3.2 with 384MB of RAM on a 4+ year old G4/400 w/o AGP (16MB Rage128 PCI, baby!) and I think I get great performance out of my system.
He's using two 23" Hi-Def displays(?) with 512mb of ram!?! and 64mb video card. Like Mac Users have said before, one gig of ram is sufficient -- for typical daily tasks 512 mb is fine but for video editing, 3D modeling, music production, you'll WANT 4 gigs+ -- but the video card is underpowered even by windows standards. Its not fair to compare the Windows UI(which is so 1992 ;) to the most advance consumer operating system like Apple's Quartz Extreme based OS with beautiful 128 icons, etc.
i love my 4+ year old pismo... that said i love my few month old dual g5 much more. itll have 2.5 gigs of ram next week.
and 2-4gb is far from required for 'good performance.' for most people 512mb is fine, and would say 1gb is overkill. i just ordered 2gb ram today cause it was cheap... mainly for video work. pretty much everything else is fine with 512 usually (...cept that one time i opened a 300+mb tiff in photoshop, it was swapping for a while when it was loading it into ram).
"Sorry, but if 2-4GB System Memory is required for good performance, than the Mac contingent has no legs to stand on to argue that Windows is "bloatware.""
It is not "necessary" to have 2-4 GB of memory for good performance. Anand, you must keep in mind, is running several applications simultaneoulsy with over twenty windows open.
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Billium - Monday, February 16, 2004 - link
More tips:Hold option to close all windows in an app at once, like opt-click the front Word document and they all close, prompting to save of course. Works with minimize and zoom, too. For instance, after using Exposé to look over the images, opt-click minimize to drop all Photoshop documents into the Dock at once, a useful trick with those nice little thumbnail icons.
Hold command (Apple) to drag, scroll and resize windows in the background. Metal windows can be dragged by any exposed metal surface area as always.
Macdesktops.com--a great collection of photographic desktops, and they put the copyright under the menubar so you don't have to look at it.
Quicktime movies will play in the Dock with live video. Nice for news junkies who can stream news into a Dock icon listening to the audio, then pop it up into a window when the story gets good. It's mostly talking heads most of the time anyway. Plus it's fun to set magnification up and watch the live video thumbnail resize while you scrub the mouse over it.
Random Person - Monday, February 16, 2004 - link
* Sorry, but if 2-4GB System Memory is required for good performance, than the Mac contingent has no legs to stand on to argue that Windows is "bloatware" *I'm running 10.3.2 with 384MB of RAM on a 4+ year old G4/400 w/o AGP (16MB Rage128 PCI, baby!) and I think I get great performance out of my system.
Meedo - Monday, February 16, 2004 - link
http://213.158.116.18/torrents/1180/Apple_Switch_P...=)
SmurfTower - Sunday, February 15, 2004 - link
http://www.javelin.cc/colloquy/ great IRC app.SmurfTower - Sunday, February 15, 2004 - link
You can access the finder from within Safari copy-paste into Safari file:///Applications/ file:///Desktop/jeffosx - Sunday, February 15, 2004 - link
Learn something new everyday. Did know about the path and finder in the titlebar icon but not these useful tips:http://latourfl.com/blog/index.php/2004/02/14/47-U...
using it already...
SmurfTower - Sunday, February 15, 2004 - link
press the ctrl + option + command + #8 keys. :D:D:D repeat to revert.Anonymous - Saturday, February 14, 2004 - link
He's using two 23" Hi-Def displays(?) with 512mb of ram!?! and 64mb video card. Like Mac Users have said before, one gig of ram is sufficient -- for typical daily tasks 512 mb is fine but for video editing, 3D modeling, music production, you'll WANT 4 gigs+ -- but the video card is underpowered even by windows standards. Its not fair to compare the Windows UI(which is so 1992 ;) to the most advance consumer operating system like Apple's Quartz Extreme based OS with beautiful 128 icons, etc.japtor - Saturday, February 14, 2004 - link
"*looks at G3/500 PowerBook with 384MB RAM...*"i love my 4+ year old pismo...
that said i love my few month old dual g5 much more. itll have 2.5 gigs of ram next week.
and 2-4gb is far from required for 'good performance.' for most people 512mb is fine, and would say 1gb is overkill. i just ordered 2gb ram today cause it was cheap... mainly for video work. pretty much everything else is fine with 512 usually (...cept that one time i opened a 300+mb tiff in photoshop, it was swapping for a while when it was loading it into ram).
Adam K - Saturday, February 14, 2004 - link
"Sorry, but if 2-4GB System Memory is required for good performance, than the Mac contingent has no legs to stand on to argue that Windows is "bloatware.""It is not "necessary" to have 2-4 GB of memory for good performance. Anand, you must keep in mind, is running several applications simultaneoulsy with over twenty windows open.