Comments on: Leopard

By: Toni

Toni — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:02:51 +0000

Dead fairy.

Actually it’s the same number of clicks (2 – one to open HB, one to select the app) but no typing needed with himmelbar.

Courtesy of our discussion yesterday I went through the dock yesterday and dumped everything I didn’t use – about half of it – before making it a lot smaller.

We’re down to Finder, firefox, dashboard, OO, sys pref, Word, excel, powerpoint, entourage. If ‘Mail’ wasn’t broken I might have used it but there’s no point giving it a chance now as I’m committed to entourage.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:13:14 +0000

Yeah I know what you mean, seeing as we near enough only use CLI’s at work I tend to prefer typing. Having said that I’m still very much learning the keyboard shortcuts for many apps.

By: Toni

Toni — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:23:52 +0000

Fewer clicks but more typing. [shrug] It’s your mac.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:29:36 +0000

Ditto the dock, it only has the most frequently used apps in, Re Himmelbar, I’ve seen it but really I just use spotlight now, fewer clicks

By: Toni

Toni — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:24:59 +0000

Have you discovered Himmelbar? A freeware aplet that makes the dock unnecessary, and probably what apple should have done in the first place. Having said that, I use the dock for frequently used apps, but HB is great when you just want a lessc ommon app or utility.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 15:21:29 +0000

I’m not sure they could do much as from what I gather you’re not alone with this problem. I assume a patch is being worked on at the moment, certainly hope so!

By: Toni

Toni — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 14:54:38 +0000

I haven’t tried spotlight yet, but for all my messiness in filing (I bung everything on the desktop on a PC with 20″ monitor) I seldom need search facilities.

Glad it’s good. I wish mail and external monitor function wasn’t broken by the 10.5.6 upgrade. Might well try to get back to the applestore to see what they can do about it.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:38:36 +0000

Not entirely unusable but very slow, using it as an app launcher was a real no no. Now my dock is near empty, much to Ben’s (uber-minimalist) delight.

By: Randall Friesen

Randall Friesen — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 20:24:18 +0000

Spotlight is useable now, as in it used to not be useable?

That’s just another thing I love about my mac, is Spotlight. Its brilliant.

Its good to see the difference between the two, from your experience.