The Mighty Mouse isn't bad, but I wish the two-button functionality worked a little better. (The one-button-that-you-can-click-on-both-sides design is very pretty, but not as responsive as two REAL buttons would be.)
What? She killed 'em with mathematics. What else could it have been?
Jayne ,'Objects In Space'
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Jessica - Apr 10, 2007 1:17:25 pm PDT #1213 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Kevin - Apr 10, 2007 1:35:44 pm PDT #1214 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Yeah, I keep highlighting wrong things or scrolling off pages accidentally. I've not decided if it's me or the mouse which is useless yet.
I'm surprised how much software works on a Mac nowadays. I've got everything I've needed so far working without problems.
esse - Apr 10, 2007 1:41:22 pm PDT #1215 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Long gone are the days when five geeks were producing all the mac software. the osx environment has been crucial in software development over the last six years or so.
Kevin - Apr 10, 2007 2:07:04 pm PDT #1216 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Yeah. OSX is... striking. I'm a bit of an OS nerd, but mostly in the Windows (work) and open source sector. Having used Vista first, and now using OSX, I can tell you exactly where MS got it's Vista ideas from.
esse - Apr 10, 2007 2:09:06 pm PDT #1217 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Yep! Even more telling is that OSX has been out and popular for years, with the fairly intuitive and revolutionary os design. I'm using it right now, in fact, and there's still times I look admiringly at how it operates, so stylish and pretty.
Kevin - Apr 10, 2007 2:12:22 pm PDT #1218 of 25496
Never fall in love with somebody you actually love.
Ease of use is interesting. I thought it was going to be a nightmare, but after the whole 'why the fuck aren't half the keys working?!' thing it's starting to straighten out. Middle click to dashboard with calculator == godsend for me as I'm ALWAYS using the calculator.
And, hell, whenever anybody speaks on Instant Messenger I have a duck popping up in my panel. Which flaps it's wings. This makes me happy.
esse - Apr 10, 2007 2:19:01 pm PDT #1219 of 25496
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
Adium is my favorite chat program from any platform. It's so well designed! Much love.
Other programs that get a lot of mileage: Quicksilver (cannot navigate without it!), democracy, igetter (download manager), transmission (the most simple, straightforward bittorrent client), writeroom, cyberduck, comical.
Gris - Apr 10, 2007 4:29:03 pm PDT #1220 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Quiksilver is AMAZING for geeks. I've still not come even close to plumbing its depths. Most of those other programs I don't use as much - I'm an Azureus fan, for one.
My biggest programs are Camino (Firefox still feels slow to me), Path Finder (best file manager for the Mac, ENTIRELY worth the money), iTerm, and VLC. Oh, and XWords - with a little bit of individual effort it becomes a perfectly decent Scrabble replacement. And, as already mentioned, Adium. Far and away the best IM client I've ever used. I also use Liquid Ledger to keep track of my finances - much simpler than Quicken for my somewhat limited needs.
meara - Apr 10, 2007 4:30:23 pm PDT #1221 of 25496
What is Liquid Ledger? I've got Quicken free with my Mac, but I"m not especially feeling the love...
Gris - Apr 10, 2007 4:31:34 pm PDT #1222 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Liquid Ledger: [link]