Re: new macbook- 1 week (plus a couple days) followup

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<1ab5f75b-1fed-4f9c-8669-d45e4ab1f520@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
ed <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 11, 9:42 am, Alan Baker <alangba...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <ebsBj.22692$R84.3...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
 "ed" <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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- the keyboard could use a couple more keys- page up / down, home / end,
forward del.  and a way to lock the keyboard so a faux numeric keypad is
available.

My understanding is that there is a way.

if there were, it it might take a bit getting used to i imagine w/out
any numbers printed on the keyboard. :P

Maybe so, but that doesn't mean it's not there.


- the macbook holds a wireless connection much better than my gateway.
- why doesn't os x show a signal strength indicator on networks?

Again, it can.

how's that?

Don't you have the little quarter concentric circles icon in the
menubar? What do you think the number of circles that go black means?


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pops up a finder window when you just want to lauch console or some
such...

The latest version of Leopard lets you have hierarchies again.

sweet- how do i enable that? i don't see an option for it anywhere.

Right click on the icon in the Dock and select "Display as Folder"
rather than "Display as Stack"

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- i'm still trying to find a good newsreader.  :P  (does entourage have a
threaded view?)

What don't you like about MT-Newswatcher?

the main thing is that windows aren't synced, and the ui sucks- for
example, when i check for new posts, it updates the number of messages
in the group listing, but not the open group windows with the
messages. the ui... i really don't like having it constantly resize
the window as i go from message to message, and can you really like a
posting view that has a 'post news' button as well as a 'post'
button? i didn't even see that 'post' button (hanging way over to the
right away from the rest of the buttons) at first, and kept hitting
the 'post news' button thinking "what the f'"? :P

Your failure to understand its UI doesn't make that UI de facto "bad",
Ed. If you want the window to stay the same size, just click the little
lock icon in the bottom left when the window is the size you want.


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unix tools installed, but i'm an old unix guy.
- i like sidebar more than dashboard.

Why?

if i'm using a little widget, it's much easier to work if i have my
working document (where the data i'm using likely resides) front and
center. for example, when using calculator, i'm probably calculating
numbers from a document i'm working on, so it's nice to have that
right up front. and for things i want reminders of - calendars, word
of the day, etc- it makes sense to have it always visible. if it's
something i'm only going to use occasionally and don't want visible, i
can just start up the specific app.

Fair enough, I guess. But since you can arrange the Dashboard to mimic
the sideboard by putting all the widgets you have open onto one side...


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--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you
sit in the bottom of that cupboard."
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