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| Thread ID: 31927 | 2003-04-04 09:45:00 | Apples are not ezePC! | Myke (3277) | Press F1 |
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| 133354 | 2003-04-04 09:45:00 | I'm a long time PC user who has largely been happy with how 2000 & XP perform... I made the big leap to the otherside (although linux users might disagree) to become an Apple user, I didn't "switch," my new job just simply required that I used Apples as that was the hardware that they provided. For all the raving about the simplicity of Apple O/S's... do you think I can do the following simple stuff? - Copy a file or folder (and it's content) and paste it. - Copy an individual image from a web page, no right click baby! - Use the CD Writer to back up files. You just can't add a file when you need to as in with XP's native software... you burn the CD... Even with a rewritable!!! Personally I'm over the Win vs. Apple tossing... however I'm looking for real solutions for bloody stupid flaws... the excuse for a one click mouse button is naff stubborn excuse. I miss Windows! Sad guy that I am. If anyone has some solutions or knows of good Apple help sites... let me know. The official Apple site is way below par. |
Myke (3277) | ||
| 133355 | 2003-04-04 12:10:00 | I did a quick search on Google for 'Apple computer help' and found a bunch of interesting sites, this one (www.usd253.org) looked good to me. | Rod J (451) | ||
| 133356 | 2003-04-04 13:40:00 | If you use the Google Mac version www.google.com you will find plenty of help. Assuming you are using OS X just type in for instance OS X copy and paste files and search for that. Other search terms which will give results are OS X tips or OS X basics |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 133357 | 2003-04-04 19:31:00 | Even though it is ten years or so since I used a Mac, you just use the keyboard more. Command X, Command C, Command V for cut, copy, paste. It was invented on the Mac, well it was on the Mac before the PC. The early Windows versions used Ctrl-Insert and crap like that for cut, copy, and paste. Command click will probably do something along the lines of right-click, too. robo. |
robo (205) | ||
| 133358 | 2003-04-04 22:03:00 | To save a web site image just drag it to your desktop or hold the mouse button down and on the menu select "save image as" Keyboard shortcuts Here (docs.info.apple.com) Go to Apple Knowledge Base Here (kbase.info.apple.com) and select a topic or type in your search term. |
Jim B (153) | ||
| 133359 | 2003-04-05 04:06:00 | The trouble is that you are a "long time PC user". Apple's aren't Microsoft. Of course they're different. I used computers for quite a few years before there were PCs. I didn't like changing OSs. The only changes I enjoyed was those in the DEC range. I found moving from OS/8 to RT11 to Vax/VMS to be easy. I found Unix relatively easy to move to. DOS was trivial. Windows ... I still don't like it. (I don't find Apple Mac easy either :D ). |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 133360 | 2003-04-05 05:58:00 | Hey Graham, if Mac OS X has a BSD core, does that mean that the gui runs under/over/around X11 and therefore you could run another gui like gnome or kde (or have Apple stopped that somehow?) | Dolby Digital (160) | ||
| 133361 | 2003-04-05 11:55:00 | Command+D Duplicate to copy a file or folder etc... Thanks for your help guys. |
Myke (3277) | ||
| 133362 | 2003-04-05 12:03:00 | I've actually used Apples in the past... some PASCAL programming at uni and a bit of wordprocessing at T-Col on LCII's and III's. | Myke (3277) | ||
| 133363 | 2003-04-05 12:52:00 | > Hey Graham, if Mac OS X has a BSD core, does that > mean that the gui runs under/over/around X11 and > therefore you could run another gui like gnome or kde > (or have Apple stopped that somehow?) Okay, so I'm not Graham :) but I'll answer this anyway. OS X doesn't actually run X11 afaik but Apple have their own X11R6 implementation so yes, you can run most of your X11 apps under OS X. |
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