Re: Ping: Hackintoshers.

T i m <news@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:42:31 +0100, thewildrover@xxxxxx (Andy Hewitt)
wrote:

1. Open Finder
2. Select Applications Folder
3. Right click on app - select -'make alias'
4. Drag alias to desktop

Or you could just shorten it to Command+Option+drag. Job done.

But who on earth would ever stumble on that bizarre combination!

'Stumble', it's documented in "Shortcuts for working with items in the
Finder" in the Help menu, amongst all the other shortcust that are
available.

With Windows (or Ubuntu) you don't 'generally' have to do anything, it
just happens all by itself and in my mind (and use) that simply can't
be beaten?

Eh? Now that's something less logical, don't you have to find the app,
right click, then navigate to the less obvious 'Send To...' sub-menu?

It's exactly the same logic as hardware being 'automagically' detected
and made available so why would you want apps to be any different?

Not sure what relevance that has to be honest. All my apps appear in the
Applications folder, and show up in the hierarchial menu I have in the
Dock, all automatically, and exactly where *I* want them to be.

--
Andy Hewitt
<http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/>
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