So, I really like my MacBook Pro. I have never used a laptop that really felt so comfortable to me. I do have another rant about Mac OS though. We have all seen that the 'home' and 'end' keys need to have the 'FN' key pressed in order to use them. However, what frustrates me is the inconsistency.
For instance, in Open Office it is 'FN'+'end' or 'FN'+'home'. In firefox it is 'Command'+'end' or 'home'. And in the terminal end, home, pageup and pagedown don't work at all.
By way of comparison, in linux, regardless of the distribution, these keys work as expected in any program that I use them in. So, to the Mac OS people (who likely will never read this but who cares, it is a rant) fix the home, end, pageup and pagedown keys so that they are consistant, GOSH.
So, I have had to use Mac OS for about a week now and I have decided that there is a fundamental flaw with the OS. It is not meant for keyboard only use. You can't live without a mouse. Let me illustrate.
If you have some windows open you can through them. But if you minimize your firefox window, and then to it, you can't get you window back up. I have not been able to find a keyboard shortcut that well let me maximize a window. So, you have to use the mouse.
When using the terminal program provided you can open tabs as you would expect. But, if you are in tab 0, and need to be in tab 5, you can't just 5 like I would like to, you have to cycle through all tabs.
Otherwise, I miss having my calendar right there with the clock, and appointments showing up there. And gnome-do kicks the trash out of QuickSilver. So yeah for the gnome-do devs!
So, it is my first day of just using MacOS X. Is there any way to have tomboy on Mac OS? I loved tomboy notes and the closest thing that I have found is a program called sidenote. But it isn't the same. It doesn't auto save, it doesn't have bulleted lists. Any help would be appreciated.
My brother is presenting tonight about his experiences with Lasers, Webcams and Python. Here's the slides (OOo format).
Thanks to lifehacker for linking to the Visor app today. This is an excellent app, Linux users might already be familiar with yakuake for KDE, which serves the same purpse. Basically it's a terminal emulator that can drop down/windowshade just like the terminal functions in popular FPS games like quake.
This is an extremely handy tool for people like me that always just want a terminal handy for a large number of tasks done during the day. I normally keep a virtual desktop tasked to this, with the handy iTerm with tabs open, I like having a quick tool available when I'm in another desktop, just for the tasks not worth switching for. A quick hot key and a real terminal.app session slides down for easy use.
Visor accomplishes this via the SIMBL tool, which allows you to plugin extension code into cocoa based applications.