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My primary home computer is a Mac, and if I still printed screens (god bless Skitch) I'd still be looking up the key combo EVERY TIME. That clearly makes no sense to me. Windows has a button that says I'm printing the screen, and I don't even have to go find it afterwards--if I want to mail it to someone, I can paste it into the email, if it was for a Word doc, I paste it into the document--THAT is how I want printscreen to work. Not hunting a saved file somewhere. I hate most any application that a) has opaque non mnemonic shortcuts to execute and b) puts the results *somewhere* instead of letting me decide where.
I'm rifling through the Evernote trunk, and Pocket is there. Which...I thought they were kind of competitors? But the page [link] says that you can easily clip from it into Everynote...I can't find a way to clip web page view, just article view. Does that mesh with the experience of any of you guys who've tried it? None of the settings seem to control that.
I can't stand Pocket so I'm not one to ask. I think the lack of folders is a deal breaker.
I have both Win7 and Mac machines at home and WinXP and Mac at work. I've found Win7 to be rather close to Mac. There are some things I find a little clunky, but I chalk that up to being used to how Mac does it. I think the updates thing in Win is rather annoying. And each computer maker has slightly different version of Windows, or so it seems. If I could choose betwen buying a mac or win machine, I'd buy mac. But the prices tend to be higher. And getting harder to justify.
What updates thing? And I know each manufacturer ships with their own bloatware, but I haven't really found it fundamentally changes how I use the OS.
LeN, Pocket clips really well. And, hell, it clips. I thought that might be a way to clip web pages in Android.
My Win 7 laptop always has updates for it. Seems everytime I pick up the machine (one a week or so) the Windows notifier is popping up saying "you have updates" and then I do them, and it takes forever, and then it restarts, which takes forever because it's installing new software, and then it is rebooted, it says "oh hey, there is now even more to install" which really annoys me. And the HP "Help Center" with it's floating dock, is the most annoying thing ever. I quit it every time I restart the machine, and for the life of me, can't find where it is installed to auto start on boot. It eats processor, and gets in the way. Hate the damn thing. And it seems Java is always wanting to install an update.
o_a, if your machine is an HP, this is how to turn off the dock: [link]
I have OS X updates much more often than Windows ones. I feel like I'm being asked to reboot more than once a week, and I'm of the never-off school of computing, never mind what battery masters say.
So I just got windows 7 on my work computer. I tried googling but the answers were complicated--how do I get the minimize all/show desktop button back? I figured out there's a right clicky thing I can do for that, but it's not as easy in my brain.
If you are using the Aero theme, there should be a shaded but otherwise blank space on the Taskbar right next to the the time display. Left-clicking on that will bring your desktop to the fore. Left-clicking on it again will bring your previous view back.
Another option is to right-click on the Taskbar, then go to Toolbars and left-click on Desktop. This will put a persistent Desktop label on the Taskbar, and if you click on the double right angle bracket icon on side of it a clickable listing of all your desktop items will appear.
Another option is to right-click on the Taskbar and click "Show the desktop" -- which I gather is the method you are already using, right?
I still prefer keyboard commands for many tasks, myself. To toggle the Desktop view on and off, the keyboard command is Windows+D.
If you are using the Aero theme, there should be a shaded but otherwise blank space on the Taskbar right next to the the time display. Left-clicking on that will bring your desktop to the fore. Left-clicking on it again will bring your previous view back.
I never knew that! Good one.
