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Mac OSX Noob thread of OSX noobs
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Mecha_Infantry
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Man, I'm trying to keep my MBP as native as usual, but man Safari is annoying as hell.
2 things:
1) When I right click a link to open it in a new tab it highlights the link
, how do I stop this?
2) When i double click and then Google, it opens Google in the current tab, how do I stop this?
2 things:
1) When I right click a link to open it in a new tab it highlights the link
, how do I stop this?2) When i double click and then Google, it opens Google in the current tab
, how do I stop this?Mecha_Infantry said:Man, I'm trying to keep my MBP as native as usual, but man Safari is annoying as hell.
2 things:
1) When I right click a link to open it in a new tab it highlights the link
2) When i double click and then Google, it opens Google in the current tab
1) CMD-Click like a real person. Why would the link being highlighted bother you, anyway?
2) I can't wrap my head around this one.
Battlezone
Member
CMD+Enter will open the Google search results into a new tab.Mecha_Infantry said:Man, I'm trying to keep my MBP as native as usual, but man Safari is annoying as hell.
2 things:
1) When I right click a link to open it in a new tab it highlights the link
2) When i double click and then Google, it opens Google in the current tab
Mecha_Infantry
Banned
SnakeXs said:
1) I only have one hand
2) Go to a page with words, double click a word then right click on it....search Google,observe Google search results opens in the current tab
ANd it annoys me because I open many tabs on a single page so I don't need to click around so much, so everytime I open a link, it highlights it, so I need to click on whitespace just to get the highlight off again. it's fucking annoying
Mecha_Infantry
Banned
SnakeXs said:
I edited to answer 1) again. Firefox isn't like that nor is Chrome, I might just resort back to those
How has 2 been covered? You don't understand or there is no answer?
Mecha_Infantry
Banned
SnakeXs said:
You obviously don't understand
Maybe you should try it yourself before replying?
Again I only have one hand so CMD+Enter isn't a good option for me. I'll prob stick with FF and Chrome, shame really
Mecha_Infantry said:
I'm trying it right now. Right clicked a thread, open in new tab, it opens, the thread title is highlighted, my very next click is right clicking the thread below it, and it opens up the sub menu and I click open in new tab again. No blank click needed.
Mecha_Infantry
Banned
SnakeXs said:
I know it works like that! But when on a news website or when opening a new tab on a page I want to carry on reading I still need to blank click to get rid of the highlighted link
In otherwords, once the link is highlighted, how do you get rid of it???? Exactly, a blank click..
It's just an annoyance
I cmd+click stuff with one hand all the time. It works for right click and google, and it also works for opening new tabs from links.
Cmd+click - you learn to use it as naturally as anything else.
Dunno about your highlighting fixation. I think they only thing that can help you with that is a psychologist.
Cmd+click - you learn to use it as naturally as anything else.
Dunno about your highlighting fixation. I think they only thing that can help you with that is a psychologist.
Macho Madness
Member
Just FYI fellas, Steam for Mac got dated for May 12th today.
Mecha_Infantry
Banned
mrkgoo said:
I don't have one hand, I'm lying...I'm just lazy
Mecha_Infantry said:I don't have one hand, I'm lying...I'm just lazy
I never thought you had one hand. I was just saying that cmd+click has become second nature to me. Some say it's a 'short-coming' of the mac having to press a modifier key to do stuff, but once you get used to it, it really is just sub-conscious. I use cmd+click, opt+click, shift+click, right click etc. It's all just as easy. Ctrl+click is a little more difficult (only being on one side of the keyboard - yes, I know you can configure).
One of my biggest beefs was trying to fn+f8-f11 once Apple put itunes keys there, but multi-touch gestures changed my need for those.
criesofthepast
Member
Do the people who use the Magic Mouse use a mouse pad? Can someone recommend me a good CHEAP mouse pad because I haven't been using one since I got my iMac a month ago and I just noticed the damage not using a mouse pad has done. Starting to fade the color off this piece of shit IKEA desk.
edgefusion
Member
My MacBook Pro has been running weirdly slow lately can anyone help me figure out what's up with it? It beach balls almost constantly on the most common of tasks and apps take much longer to load than they used to. I've tried all the regular 'fixes' like running pretty much everything Onyx can do short of actually reinstalling Snow Leopard (which I don't want to as my disks are in Cornwall and I'm in London, 300 miles apart).
Here are my Geekbench results if those are of any help:
2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2gb ram.
Here are my Geekbench results if those are of any help:
2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2gb ram.
notworksafe
Member
Command + Delete is what I use.aparisi2274 said:
edgefusion
Member
Here's my activity monitor - nothing unusual that I can tell. I really really hope it's not a HDD problem because I have rather outgrown my backup disk.
EDIT: Now that I look at it, those red spikes don't look very friendly do they?
EDIT: Now that I look at it, those red spikes don't look very friendly do they?
Can anyone explain to me how I change an icon? I've looked at guides and they tell me to drag the new icon to the Get Info icon of the file I want to change.
If I download an ICO file from the internet, and do that, the file I want to change now has the icon of a square with ICO written on it, instead of the actual icon.
v Thanks, that worked.
If I download an ICO file from the internet, and do that, the file I want to change now has the icon of a square with ICO written on it, instead of the actual icon.
v Thanks, that worked.
Khalifa Jayy
Banned
Download Transparent PNGs or ICNS files. Open them (in preview). Click on the image (don't need to "select" anything) and hit cmd+c. Get Info on the file you want to change. Click on the icon of that file (upper left corner of newly opened get info box). Hit cmd+v. Done.upandaway said:
edgefusion said:My MacBook Pro has been running weirdly slow lately can anyone help me figure out what's up with it? It beach balls almost constantly on the most common of tasks and apps take much longer to load than they used to. I've tried all the regular 'fixes' like running pretty much everything Onyx can do short of actually reinstalling Snow Leopard (which I don't want to as my disks are in Cornwall and I'm in London, 300 miles apart).
Here are my Geekbench results if those are of any help:
2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2gb ram.
Have you considered a failing hard drive, or a filling up hard drive?
Also, I believe that the hard drive is becoming a bottleneck in today's systems. I upgraded my hard drive to a 640GB and while every benchmark bar one is better (random writes), it's enough to make me lose performance if I need to page the HD.
bucknuticus
Member
So just got my first ever mac, i have a printer hooked up to my win 7 pro dekstop, but my mac cant find it, nor can it see the win 7 machine. I can see the macbook though on my win 7 machine. Anyone have any ideas?
Edit:
Ok i got the printer connected and the mac can see all windows computer, but now my winodws 7 computer cant see my mac. Ugh!
Edit:
Ok i got the printer connected and the mac can see all windows computer, but now my winodws 7 computer cant see my mac. Ugh!
MarkMclovin
Member
Over the last few weeks, my Powerbook G4 doesn't connect to the internet automatically anymore. I have to keep selecting my wireless router and put in the WEP. 'Remember this' is always ticked and I have 'ask to join new networks', un-ticked.
Because of this, I get the time/date is before 2001 error (as it is synched with apple.com)
Any Ideas?
Because of this, I get the time/date is before 2001 error (as it is synched with apple.com)
Any Ideas?
travisbickle
Member
SnakeXs said:
Can you do this with ps3 ?
bucknuticus
Member
scorcho said:
Where is that located?
http://macs.about.com/od/filesharing/ss/file-sharing-with-snow-leopard-win7_5.htmbucknuticus said:
although i think Apple's SMB networking isn't as solid as Bonjour.
Particle Physicist
between a quark and a baryon
bucknuticus said:
Have you done all the security updates? I believe there were some issues in snow leopard early on.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
Did he just set up Boot Camp and not know how to get back?
Macho Madness
Member
Where is the new tab button in Safari? Only thing that really irritates me in using it.
Macho Madness
Member
Much appreciated but I would prefer a solution that didn't require a second tab to be open already.LCfiner said:
Nevermind, found the solution. View --> Show Tab Bar. That or you can Customize the Toolbar and add in the button. Sweet!
Thanks!
Hey guys, does anyone know of a good to-do app? I'm looking for something that is:
-simple
-minimalistic
-easy to add tasks
-preferably shows a small list of the items, not some huge intricate window with times, dates, calendars and all that crazy shit
Really, I just need something that will tell me what I have to do on a certain day. Doesn't have to have times or anything like that. It can be a paid app, just as long as its under 20 bucks.
Btw, I've tried Things, but I want something more simple than that. Thanks in advance!
-simple
-minimalistic
-easy to add tasks
-preferably shows a small list of the items, not some huge intricate window with times, dates, calendars and all that crazy shit
Really, I just need something that will tell me what I have to do on a certain day. Doesn't have to have times or anything like that. It can be a paid app, just as long as its under 20 bucks.
Btw, I've tried Things, but I want something more simple than that. Thanks in advance!