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Vox Pop: What's your "Mac Whine?"

We've started a new feature over on MacBreak Weekly that I really hope becomes a regular thing: "_Mac Whines_!"

Yeah, sure, I'm an unapologetic Apple fanboy (I, mean duh), but some stuff about my Mac experience makes me crazy. Have you got a beef with your Mac or OS X you want to shout from the shiny counter of the "Genius" Bar? Yeah, me too.

I'll open with:

  • inexplicable iCal "snooze" options (per MBW 30 -- which, incidentally, may also be my favorite MacBreak Weekly to date)
  • near-hangs whenever a mounted network volume is no longer available
  • no way to (temporarily) enable password-free user switching
  • The Finder. The goddamned Finder.

What's your Mac Whine?

Robert C.'s picture

@marijane: You should follow Jason's...

@marijane: You should follow Jason's instructions above to enable full keyboard access for any dialogue box, but for the "Do you want to save changes" dialogue box there's an easier way:

To select Don't Save: Press command-D (or space bar if "Don't Save" is circled) To select Save: Press enter (obv.) To select Cancel: Press command-period

by "command" of course I mean the apple key.

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What's my most least favorite thing about using a Mac?

It bothers me when one I'm viewing items "as icons" and one item's name is too long to fit in the window—so all the icons drop from three-on-a-row to two-on-a-row. That's a poor explanation for a minor distraction.

I hear a lot of people really hate the Finder's user interface, but I've never had too many problems. It seems fine. How could it be better?

 
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