Re: Dual Boot Mac

From: <Christopher>
Date: Fri Apr 07 2006 - 12:43:00 EDT

On Apr 7, 2006, at 8:46 AM, Ivan Locke wrote:

> At least the current version of tiger has horrible use of
> end/home keys (except for in microsoft applications, home and end do
> not
> work - very frustrating in search text boxes and address bars). Apple
> drop down lists are not tabable and inputable by keyboard - I find it a
> pain to have to switch to the mouse, especially when entering in web
> forms. Apple has very cool virtual folders (in mailboxes to
> automatically sort email to folders, in itunes to automatically group
> songs to playlists - based on querries). Current apple web browsers can
> not print a selection off a web page.

I don't want to get into an OS skirmish, but the things you've mentioned are a little squirrely. 'Home' and 'End' work fine on almost any app, certainly on Mail and Safari. Most of the programs I use have hot key equivalents for most of the menu commands, just like the MS Office software. If you need more use System Preferences to define them. If you need something fancier you can script it with AppleScript, Perl or Python or use QuickKeys or some freeware equivalent. Printing selections from web pages is trivial--I do it all the time with Safari. You can also have Safari fill out personal information on web forms and enter passwords if you like. And you can tab between text boxes on a web form to enter anything else--no need to use the mouse.

Again, I'm not starting an OS war--consider this an offer of assistance if you want to get in touch off list.
If the things you mention are the most complicated issues you've got with OS X, I think I can help straighten you out. Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=CUehRcInNBIRNw_BAgekDLyrJF339LcHXllbrNsP3oxWX_YhgvI9c-A3jkoXXCGHISJKrlyHHUAPJw">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania

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<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/</a> Received on Fri Apr 07 12:43:00 2006