#180304 - 11/14/08 12:24 PM
Frustration in the new World of Digitalis
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Loc: Apple Valley, CA, USA
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Speaking of illusory states incidentally, and while it doesn't bear on the editing of posts as in an earlier thread; I wonder how many of us having switched from Bill to Mac are are experiencing other peculiarities that defy reason and which might eventually detract a whole lot from the latter's reputation
For instance, whilst composing say an email, you happen to be sweeping the cursor around the screen, looking or a word etc, without even clicking; for no apparent reason your document disappears and is replaced by another screen uncalled for and blank though usually it's a window entitled "Entourage Help Home."
Of course you can quickly click it away away by its red dot, restoring whatever you were doing; but my God what an interruption. Am I the only Mac user who encounters annoying glitches such as these
Why am I the only apparent victim
Why don't other Mac users speak up
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#180307 - 11/14/08 01:11 PM
Re: Frustration in the new World of Digitalis
[Re: etaoin]
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Registered: 07/10/05
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eta, there's more than a grain of truth in what you say and your post is comforting but Mac had been touted by many as vastly superior, while at my age it's hard to put up with a whole new set of glitches
Maybe I expect too much. Nonetheless I am gratified by your reassurance
For instance, incidentally, Mac flags misspellings in posts of this sort and provides instant access to other such services like Dictionary, Spelling and Grammar, etc; but having gone to that much trouble why didn't they also provide Synonyms. It's as if your new car had a gas pedal, clutch, and accelerator, but no brake
Your comparison incidentally is apt, while in addition the manual is more reliable (between us Laverne and I have so far spent $10,400 in replacement and repair of our two Blazer automatics. On the other hand, however, Mac seems to require two to five times as many keystrokes to perform any task
No reply necessary; and again your calm, considered reflections constitute a welcome contrast in this world of vast complexity and cross-program interlocking contradictory glitches brimming with mutual recrimination
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#180325 - 11/14/08 09:51 PM
Re: Frustration in the new World of Digitalis
[Re: Faldage]
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 06/24/02
Posts: 6251
Loc: Vermont
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One big problem I always had with Macs is that a window is never in full screen mode. Sure, there's a guy up there in the upper right corner that claims to make the window full screen but in reality it doesn't quite do it. The result is that I can be going to slide the vertical scroll bar to get the window to go up or down and I miss by just the least little bit and click on the window behind the one I'm working with and suddenly there's a whole new window that I don't really want. It's annoying at best. I agree with that sentiment, Fald. bugs me, too.
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#180331 - 11/15/08 11:20 AM
Re: Frustration in the new World of Digitalis
[Re: etaoin]
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Registered: 07/10/05
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Loc: Apple Valley, CA, USA
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Me too. Even my IT No. 1 Son is annoyed by that deficiency, and he's not nearly as demanding as I. Sizing sequence clicking green dot should include one full screen
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#180335 - 11/15/08 08:09 PM
Re: Frustration in the new World of Digitalis
[Re: etaoin]
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Pooh-Bah
Registered: 08/06/01
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Loc: Worcester, MA
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The green button is a toggle-switch with two positions. One setting is "full screen" (which seems to mean one 8 1/2 by 11 page, no matter how much bigger your monitor might be) and the other is "whatever you had before you hit the green button." Which means if you manually stretch the window to fill the screen you can go back and forth from fullscreen to smaller.
Not quite ideal, but getting a little closer to what you're asking for.
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