Journal AssFace's Journal: Mac wish list 2
As with all new things in my life, I tend to obsess over them and try to learn as much as possible about them as fast as possible.
I'm still early in that curve on the Mac, so perhaps some of my wishes have long since been met, but I just haven't figured out that part yet.
1) Mail.app - this thing is fantastic. That said, there is one little thing that I don't like about it so far and that is the Junk Mail - or rather on part of it.
If I get mail in my Inbox and I click on the "Junk" button, it moves my mail to the Junk folder (and presumably does Bayesian learning on it - I hope).
But if I look in the Junk folder and see a message was moved there and it shouldn't have been - I click on "Not Junk" and it then it changes the button to "Junk" - again it presumably them makes note in the Bayes data structure that this isn't junk - either forgetting what it learned or adding it to a "this is okay" list.
BUT - it just leaves the mail sitting there. It should move the mail back to my Inbox and then let me sort it out from there if need be.
I have looked through the menus and haven't seen anything that would allow me to do this that I have unchecked.
2) Safari. I have stated in the past on here that I wish the Google add-in behaved more like the real Google Toolbar (allowed you to click on a different button right there to go to the type of Google search that you want instead of having to do a search and then do it again on the Google page - this makes a big difference on a slow connection and you want limit your times).
Other things that I have decided:
A) a throbber. This is the same issue I have with Mozilla stuff, and I think Safari is based on that. The throbber being the symbol that you can see and if it is moving, then the page is still loading. Now I have to look at the url bar and see that fill up, and/or see that it is doing something in the status bar at the bottom.
B) less of a wish and more of a bafflement - I usually have a lot of web pages open at once - 10 or so. Last night I felt that the laptop was overly warm even though I wasn't doing anything more than just being on web pages and writing e-mail.
I looked at the Activity Monitor and saw that Safari was using 50%+ of the processor, and it wasn't doing anything at all. No Java in the pages, maybe some animated gifs, and no pages were loading or downloading anything. It was using 126M RAM, which was less bothersome to me than the processor time.
3) Activity Monitor - along the lines of what was mentioned above - it would be nice if the Activity Manager would allow you to drill down more. I could see that Safari as a whole was using 50%+ of my processor, but I couldn't narrow it down as to which window.
4) Terminal window - right now mine is black text on a white background. I like having white or green text on a black background - haven't seen a way to configure that.
5) Fire - I tried to install Gaim, but couldn't get it to install with Fink - it wasn't happy about my OS X X11 installation, even though I was doing what it said - I'm assuming that it is something to do with that Panther is new and does something different and the code needs updates. Don't know.
So I went with Fire, which was easy to install.
My friends have problems sometimes with AIM or else I would have just stuck with iChat which was cool looking.
Fire on the other hand does what I want (connect to Yahoo and AIM), but it is ugly.
Close enough though.
I haven't had a chance to really use Xcode yet, but I know off the top of my head that it would recognize and work with Perl as one of its language options - even as an add-on.
All in all I am really pleased with this Mac. I like the way things are so easy to install/uninstall (excluding the Fink stuff since that doesn't seem to be working well for me, likely something I'm doing wrong).
I like that everything looks fantastic - MovieOS style (the idea that all TV shows and Movies have cool looking OSes in them that don't really exist).
It isn't blazing fast, and it still gets warmer than I would like. The trackpad and especially the button on it are still driving me nuts. My fingers feel weird after typing a lot on the keyboard...
But all in all, I love it.
On a side note and really only related to this discussion in that I am spewing out wishlists stuff - I drive a Vespa as my main mode of transportation here in Bermuda. One of the new ones. The old ones were made using the same manufacturing techniques of airplanes at the time - the war was just finishing up and so the machinery that was used to get the planes made could be used to make the bikes.
Well, the new ones are far more advanced than that, but they are still using steel.
It weighs and absolute ton (over 300lbs once there is fuel and cargo in there, not to mention the rider on top of that).
If they would switch to aluminum or titanium (depending on the day, one costs more than the other when buying in bulk, but they aren't that far off), then they would have a stiffer, stronger, and lighter bike.
It would be easier to handle, get better gas mileage, and not rust.
Another option - which most all other bike companies have gone to - is plastic. A metal frame with a plastic shell around it. The obvious downside to that is that it is ugly, and it also breaks easily.
It is cheaper, but it also looks cheaper.
I would gladly pay more for the same quality and design, but with an alum or ti structure instead.
If only I had the kind of pull to get that done.
Terminal (Score:2)
funny, my term window is green on black and mildly transparent. Open terminal, go to "window Settings" and then "color". Configure away. :)
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Re:Terminal (Score:1)
like I said, a lot of my wishes and/or complaints are likely just due to me not being familiar with any of this yet.