20061204


beach ball of death



Love my Mac. It's sexy as hell, but it's a computer so it does annoying things sometimes...

list of complaints:


  • I still had to reboot after getting the latest OS X security patch. I've heard Mac people make fun of Windows for doing such things

  • no right click (not easy to do [ctrl]-click with infant in one arm)

  • firefox 2.0 constantly crashing on me (thanks to Gerri for tech support on how to kill a hanging application -aka- "force quit")

  • iPhoto is not as cool as Picasa

  • got soulseek to work, but it's just not the same

  • no right click...no I'm not going to buy a new mouse any time soon

  • beach ball of death (no where near as annoying as a blue screen of death, but annoying, none-the-less)



did I mention the lack of being able to "right click"? I like to get the most out of things, so being able to right click instead of hitting [ctrl]-click would be nice.

Other than my petty complaints above (except the firefox crashing), the good seems to outweigh the bad. Garageband is, like, the best, and the built in help system puts Windows to shame (I've been able to figure out pretty much everything on my own).

7 comments:

ACK said...

Why the resistance to buy a mouse? I bought one and I can right click all the time on my mac...

leon said...

Well. At first I was going to strike back since my computer came with a 50 dollar mouse. but after looking at the link, it seems it can right click using some kind of magic. I'll need to investigate.

leon said...

not sure why they refere to the feature as "a powerful secret"

Alicia Patrice said...

i think if you hold down the mouse or something, it will essentially right click. but i could be wrong.

i coulda told you about the force quit thing!

mac using vegetarians unite!

leon said...

so by default 'right click' doesn't work. had to manually change that. all is well.

Unknown said...

hey, hows that right click function?

leon said...

the right click is doing well. Thanks for asking. Just the other day he copied and pasted some text for the very first time!


Sooo cute.