http://developer.apple.com/referencelibrary/API_Fundamentals/UserExperience-fund-date.html
two very good pdf's for mac users and the HIG PDF at the end has a complete listing of every OSX keybaord shortcut.
very cool...
-nex6
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Mac thoughts ( Random blithering)
ok, (longish) :)
I have had my new mac for a little while now. in the order of 3 months or so, Mac for sure has a different work flow and user flow.
They are not necessarily bad or wrong just different. Mac has its own way of doing things. like many things tend to by mousy like drag and drop to install software, drag and drop to remove. though, there is a fair number of keyboard jocky stuff also like real UNIX and iterm/shell (am a zsh user). one of the first things i did was switch the shell to zsh, and load my dot files for zsh.
the 'feel' of the laptop (MBP aka macbook pro) is pretty good, tho there is a bug in the sleep when shutting the lid. this is a known
issue and on the apple forums there is tons and tons of posts about it. work around is the use the menu to put to sleep. tho, once of the theory's
is having external USB devices plugged in while closing the lid. which for me is true (external USB mouse). so now i just use the menu. when i get arround to it, I think i will figure out how to make shortcut/alais or script something and have it on the dock and just click there to send it to sleep.
noticed, on the right click menu there is no "rename" for most things. though I can use the shell. i wonder what the reason for this is?
I really like the user switching in OSX, where one user is logged one and you "switch" to another user leaving the other user logged on. this is really
first class. one click enter password and your in. in fact this is really cool for dev stuff. i can have test users set up and flip to them very fast.
the photo stuff is way better period, its not even close. and know with the new Microsoft RDP client, connecting to work machines is a breeze and works just like a native client. (tho, Linux has an RDP client also I think the Mac client is a little better)
The touchpad, is anther thing that's way better, the touchpad once you setup the non default options like tap to click, it way way better then any other touchpad period. two finger scrolling two finger tap for right clicking etc very nice.
I am waiting for my copy from work of vmware fusion so i can load all my Windows, Linux and FreeBSD vm's.
Vim is there so life is good on that front, and macports and fink allow installing in a more BSD/Linux way of some someware. tho, i wish mc(midnight commader) had a mac version. though i may still install the source version.
hmmmmm thats good for now...
-Nex6
I have had my new mac for a little while now. in the order of 3 months or so, Mac for sure has a different work flow and user flow.
They are not necessarily bad or wrong just different. Mac has its own way of doing things. like many things tend to by mousy like drag and drop to install software, drag and drop to remove. though, there is a fair number of keyboard jocky stuff also like real UNIX and iterm/shell (am a zsh user). one of the first things i did was switch the shell to zsh, and load my dot files for zsh.
the 'feel' of the laptop (MBP aka macbook pro) is pretty good, tho there is a bug in the sleep when shutting the lid. this is a known
issue and on the apple forums there is tons and tons of posts about it. work around is the use the menu to put to sleep. tho, once of the theory's
is having external USB devices plugged in while closing the lid. which for me is true (external USB mouse). so now i just use the menu. when i get arround to it, I think i will figure out how to make shortcut/alais or script something and have it on the dock and just click there to send it to sleep.
noticed, on the right click menu there is no "rename" for most things. though I can use the shell. i wonder what the reason for this is?
I really like the user switching in OSX, where one user is logged one and you "switch" to another user leaving the other user logged on. this is really
first class. one click enter password and your in. in fact this is really cool for dev stuff. i can have test users set up and flip to them very fast.
the photo stuff is way better period, its not even close. and know with the new Microsoft RDP client, connecting to work machines is a breeze and works just like a native client. (tho, Linux has an RDP client also I think the Mac client is a little better)
The touchpad, is anther thing that's way better, the touchpad once you setup the non default options like tap to click, it way way better then any other touchpad period. two finger scrolling two finger tap for right clicking etc very nice.
I am waiting for my copy from work of vmware fusion so i can load all my Windows, Linux and FreeBSD vm's.
Vim is there so life is good on that front, and macports and fink allow installing in a more BSD/Linux way of some someware. tho, i wish mc(midnight commader) had a mac version. though i may still install the source version.
hmmmmm thats good for now...
-Nex6
Wednesday, April 02, 2008
OOXML and the ISO vote
well, looks like OOXML is approved:
slashdots linkage:
and groklaws linkage:
When you read through those threads you'll notice allot of comments about how Microsoft must have cheated somehow. and that OOXML is flawed, and
should have been rejected. my take is this;
maybe OOXML is not perfect, but neather is PDF or ODF. hell the only really clean standard is probley HTML. Microsoft has the disadvantage of having tons and tons of functionality
that must be supported. where as ODF did not. also, pdf is also pretty ugly. ever try to create a PDF based app? good luck in having it not break from adobe reader version to version and from the different broswer versions. and if we accepted PDF? why not OOXML? and one thing Miguel de Icaza has commented alot about OOXML both on his blog and in slashdot threads about OOXML.
and he and some of his team had been invloved during some of the early stages. Now remember Miguel and his team wrote Gnumeric and worked alot with the Microsoft formats. and they thought more documentation was better, and would help in the long run. so many of the 6000 pages are samples etc see the below links for a run down.
I for one think OOXML in the long run is a good thing.
here are some of Miguel de Icaza's posts: (about OOXML)
and a really good post about ODF and OOXML in general:
-Nex6
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