The Apple thread

amanset · Post by **amanset** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 3:52 pm 0

Cloudane wrote:
piku wrote:While idly prodding the F3 key on my mac and watching the pretty animation I discovered cmd-F3 shunts everything out the way so I can see my desktop. I then pressed the other modifier keys to see what else happens. You're all Mac owners so you know what they do, so maybe you can explain the point of pressing Shift-F3.
This was one of those WTF-moments of Leopard. Panther and Tiger had them all on separate F-keys.

What you're looking at is standard ExposÃ© (F3) - reveals all windows
Applications ExposÃ© (Ctrl-F3) - reveals all windows belonging to that application (great for web browsers etc)
Desktop ExposÃ© (Cmd-F3) - shows the desktop.

They were originally F9, F10 and F11 (Dashboard F12) until they decided to confuse us oldschool folk by shuffling them around

You can assign them to other buttons including 'fn key' modes and mouse buttons under the system prefs. For the mighty mouse I have the squeeze button(s) as standard ExposÃ© and the middle button as Dashboard. Microsoft multi-button mice get a bit more loving!

I'm not sure what brought it on but I don't think it was a Leopard thing. My iMac is the most recent release but from before Leopard and it had the same functionality. There was an option under Tiger, and it is there now also in Leopard, to swap how those keys work so pressing fn-<key> makes F1-12 work instead of the pretty picture on the keyboard. It was just about the first thing I did when I got my iMac running Tiger.

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:55 am 0

US Apple Store is down - what will we get ?

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:29 am 0

Don't care.....my Macbook Pro just arrived a week ahead of schedule

matt303 · Post by **matt303** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:45 am 0

Macs are just so dam ace, I've just replaced the hard drive in my mini while upgrading the ram and all I needed to do to get everything back like before was pop the old drive in a usb caddy and migrate the user to the new OS install

iTunes found all my music in it's non-standard place on an external drive and I didn't even need to log into YakYak it had copied the cookies over.

Post by **RiK** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 12:53 am 0

matt303 wrote:Macs are just so dam ace, I've just replaced the hard drive in my mini while upgrading the ram and all I needed to do to get everything back like before was pop the old drive in a usb caddy and migrate the user to the new OS install

iTunes found all my music in it's non-standard place on an external drive and I didn't even need to log into YakYak it had copied the cookies over.

Oh very hell yeah. I was massively impressed by the migration assistant thing when I got my Mac Pro. Just connected up the FW800 cable to the old G5, left it to do it's thing and voila! The pro booted up looking *exactly* like the old G5, if just a smidge quicker..

Surfr · Post by **Surfr** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:58 pm 0

Took delivery of my MacPro at work today and used the migration assistant to almost perfect effect, but a couple things have come up. Camino can no longer run, complaining about being unable to find a profile (even after deleting ~/Library bits and pieces)

matt303 · Post by **matt303** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:46 pm 0

Well apart from a lot of messing around due to my windows xp failing activation and having to phone the activation line (don't you just love typing 54 digit numbers on a phone) I've got VMWare Fusion back on the machine. The extra ram and disc space has made all the difference and the machine is quite happy to have both OS's running, definitely be buying VMWare Fusion before the months trial is up

amanset · Post by **amanset** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:21 am 0

Why is Grab any better than OSX's built in screenshotting?

Cloudane · Post by **Cloudane** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:30 am 0

amanset wrote:Why is Grab any better than OSX's built in screenshotting?

OSX's built-in screenshotting is grab.app. Just most people usually invoke it with the hotkeys. I guess the standalone app is there for folk who prefer not to try and remember cmd-shift-3 etc

amanset · Post by **amanset** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:59 am 0

Cloudane wrote:
amanset wrote:Why is Grab any better than OSX's built in screenshotting?
OSX's built-in screenshotting is grab.app. Just most people usually invoke it with the hotkeys. I guess the standalone app is there for folk who prefer not to try and remember cmd-shift-3 etc

Aha.

Skah T · Post by **Skah T** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:21 pm 0

With the SDK released, I'm interested in iPhone development. As I don't have a Mac right now I will have to purchase one as a development platform. What is the recommended model for this purpose? Both the Air and Mac Book Pro have that multi-touch pad so does that mean it can emulate the iPhone better? Or does it not really matter?

pogo · Post by **pogo** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:08 pm 0

Skah T wrote:With the SDK released, I'm interested in iPhone development. As I don't have a Mac right now I will have to purchase one as a development platform. What is the recommended model for this purpose? Both the Air and Mac Book Pro have that multi-touch pad so does that mean it can emulate the iPhone better? Or does it not really matter?

I would say it doesn't matter. For the extra you pay for either over a MacBook or even Mini you could buy two or more iPod Touches. You will need one for testing, sooner rather than later if you are taking advantage of it's input capabilities. Sure get a MB pro as it's a great machine (the Air strikes me as too limited, storage and RAM wise, for dev work), but not not just for it's trackpad.

Skah T · Post by **Skah T** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:26 pm 0

Oh I know I'll be getting either an iPhone or Touch - probably iPhone since my current phone is on its way out. I was just wondering about the system for development. Does it matter at all to have the multi-touch track pad? Does that make development any easier using the SDK's simulator?

sty · Post by **sty** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:59 pm 0

Skah T wrote:Oh I know I'll be getting either an iPhone or Touch - probably iPhone since my current phone is on its way out. I was just wondering about the system for development. Does it matter at all to have the multi-touch track pad? Does that make development any easier using the SDK's simulator?

from what I have read so far the simulator uses mouse to simulate touchscreen, ie. having multitouch would make no difference.

Given most macs don't have it, and I would imaging Apple really would love devs to buy Powermacs (cost etc.) then I can't see them supporting multitouch just yet just for code development.

So you're choice is open.

Jusdging from something I read recently that Gravy had posted about his little side game dev projects he thought the Air was a nice little machine for that type of dev - YMMV

I just upgraded my Dual G5 to Leopard last night in prep for doing some iTouch dev. I have to agree with Matt that upgrading the Macs is really pleasant.

I chose to stick a new HDD in before I did the upgrade, so I replaced my original 160G with a shiny new 500G (I was tempted to go 1T but wimped out as I want to mirror this twice later for DR). So I temporarily took out my 350G 2nd drive, popped in the new one, CCC cloned my 160G to the 500G, swapped the drives round and popped the 350G back in and rebooted - and renamed the 500G from "Untitled" to "John". Bingo Tiger running identically on my 500G drive - then just popped Leopard in to do an upgrade and went out for dinner. Come home, install XCode3 and any SW updates, now I have Leopard on a shiny new system with 850G of HDD internally and nearly 2T externally

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 10:49 pm 0

http://gizmodo.com/367584/apple-wwdc-20 ... s-than-one

Ummmmm why 2 bridges...?

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