Frustrations with OS X

[kainjow]

Originally Posted by fryke

"Although AFAIK there is no way to show the application again via command-tab." - Well, if you bring it to the front, of course, but that's it.

But there's no way to do it for select applications at a time. Only one by one.

[HateEternal]

Have you gotten into any Cocoa developement yet?

If you are anything like me that may get you excited. I have only had time to mess with it a little but I had a blast playing around with it, it's just a really cool framework and interface builder is A+ in my book. It's way better than the visual studio environment if you ask me.

[dmetzcher]

Originally Posted by fryke

I'm using Fn ArrowLeft and Fn ArrowRight. Those keys even have "home" and "end" written on them on my PowerBook. Must admit I'm not sure what the desktop keyboards currently have for that.

The keyboards for desktop models look mostly like standard keyboards and have the Home and End keys in the row above the arrow keys (like my PC keyboard).

Originally Posted by fryke

I personally use SideNote for notes. It's the greatest, I believe. Handy, useful - and still under active development AFAIK. And hey: It's freeware. Looky! http://www.apple.com/downloads/macos.../sidenote.html

I have this installed, but I haven't really gotten into it yet. I'm sure it's great for someone who creates snippets of code daily, though. I'll have to start working more with it, now that you're reminded me that it keeps popping up whenever my mouse hits the right edge of the screen.

[dmetzcher]

Originally Posted by kainjow

Also, when command-tabbing around, you can use 'h' to hide an application also. Although AFAIK there is no way to show the application again via command-tab.

To show an app after you have hidden it, just Command+Tab until you have the app you want to show highlighted and release the Command and Tab keys. The hidden app will show again and be at the front of the stack.

[Lt Major Burns]

Originally Posted by dmetzcher

The keyboards for desktop models look mostly like standard keyboards and have the Home and End keys in the row above the arrow keys (like my PC keyboard).

they aren't actually home or end keys. to navigate around a paragraph, use the arrow keys in conjunction with alt (option) and apple (command) keys

[fryke]

Originally Posted by dmetzcher

I have this installed, but I haven't really gotten into it yet. I'm sure it's great for someone who creates snippets of code daily, though. I'll have to start working more with it, now that you're reminded me that it keeps popping up whenever my mouse hits the right edge of the screen.

... I've set it to a keyboard combo (Cmd-Shift-F12 for me) and set it so it does _not_ pop up when I hit screen edges, because that'd get on my nerves. But with the keyboard-combo, it's always there when I need it.
(Just noticed that this is my 8'000th post. Maybe I should go a bit slower now.)

[dmetzcher]

Originally Posted by Lt Major Burns

they aren't actually home or end keys. to navigate around a paragraph, use the arrow keys in conjunction with alt (option) and apple (command) keys

What are the home and end keys on the keyboard for then? I never use the keyboard, so I can't say that I've tested this much (so one would ask the question: "Why did you ever buy it in the first place?" to which I don't really have an answer except that I thought I'd use it more).

[Lt Major Burns]

are you talking abvout the mac keyboard or a pc one?

the mac one doesn't pretend to have home or end keys, it just has extra arrow keys that pretend to do something. you can however bind them to do what ever you want with them