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

Merlin Mann | Feb 28 2007

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?

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A couple of whines: Grab a...

Submitted by Bryan (not verified) on March 1, 2007 - 5:46am.

A couple of whines:

  1. Grab a list of files in either icon of list view. If the files are numbered with a number in them like CES8001.psd, CES8002.psd etc double click on them to open them in photoshop and the files are opened in some random order. If you do this in column view it opens them in the right order.

  2. Listining to a podcast on my Ipod -- not finished with it yet but I've arrived at work so I take my Ipod to its dock in my office then I have to used Itunes to find the same Podcast to listen to Oh -- it is a TWIT episode so I don't finish listening to it at work either so I take my Ipod back to the car to finish on the trip home -- I have to refind the Podcast again to continue listening to it. Can't a true round-trip Ipod to Itunes to Ipod happen?

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