Comment Re:lookin good (Score 2, Interesting) 522
1- Shortcuts form program to program.
Firefox is a pretty bad example, as in almost every other program theres is a huge amount of consistency. Th shortcut differences in firefox mostly stem from the dev team trying to keep FF the same across platforms, though it is looking like they will make it more macified in the next major release. Honestly, if you dig a little bit, like in system preferences, you can change the behavior of a lot of whats pissing you off.
2- Window switching
I have to totally disagree.
command + ` usually switches between windows in the app on top
command + tab has a TON of options. First off, command+tab, you can let go of tab and you have the switcher up. Now, you can use mouse, tab, or arrow keys to move between apps. You can also minimize or quit an app from here, by pressing H to hide and Q to quit.
Expose is really the best way though. I map expose to a mouse button, as well as the last few F keys. You expose in to show all windows or show windows in current app. If you have a few documents open, doing it for that app is a ton faster then anything in windows. I use it extensively in photoshop, where I often have 5-10 things open.
Also, if you expose, you can tab and it will go app to app showing open windows. I wouldn't be surprised if theres a trick involving minimized windows, but imm not here to do your research.
To be honest, I dont even minimize things anymore. Theres really no point.
3- fans and battery
First off, fans going gung ho is usually because of some piece of bad software over utilizing the cpu/gpu. If theres something more sinister, it's either a hardware failure or theres probably an update for errant behavior. But, honestly, having a semi-easy way to reset your systems hardware.. is a good thing, right? Also, its not PRAM anymore for anyone reading (on the intel hardware). Crap happens, it's not just cus you have a mac.
Also, for people who REALLLLLY want to customize keyboard shortcuts and, well, everything else, try
http://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate/
really, it's amazing, and I use it for adding shortcuts on my logitech mouse on a per app basis.
Firefox is a pretty bad example, as in almost every other program theres is a huge amount of consistency. Th shortcut differences in firefox mostly stem from the dev team trying to keep FF the same across platforms, though it is looking like they will make it more macified in the next major release. Honestly, if you dig a little bit, like in system preferences, you can change the behavior of a lot of whats pissing you off.
2- Window switching
I have to totally disagree.
command + ` usually switches between windows in the app on top
command + tab has a TON of options. First off, command+tab, you can let go of tab and you have the switcher up. Now, you can use mouse, tab, or arrow keys to move between apps. You can also minimize or quit an app from here, by pressing H to hide and Q to quit.
Expose is really the best way though. I map expose to a mouse button, as well as the last few F keys. You expose in to show all windows or show windows in current app. If you have a few documents open, doing it for that app is a ton faster then anything in windows. I use it extensively in photoshop, where I often have 5-10 things open.
Also, if you expose, you can tab and it will go app to app showing open windows. I wouldn't be surprised if theres a trick involving minimized windows, but imm not here to do your research.
To be honest, I dont even minimize things anymore. Theres really no point.
3- fans and battery
First off, fans going gung ho is usually because of some piece of bad software over utilizing the cpu/gpu. If theres something more sinister, it's either a hardware failure or theres probably an update for errant behavior. But, honestly, having a semi-easy way to reset your systems hardware.. is a good thing, right? Also, its not PRAM anymore for anyone reading (on the intel hardware). Crap happens, it's not just cus you have a mac.
Also, for people who REALLLLLY want to customize keyboard shortcuts and, well, everything else, try
http://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate/
really, it's amazing, and I use it for adding shortcuts on my logitech mouse on a per app basis.
