[QUOTE=Capt.Montoya;156316]The silly 1-button mouse is no more... Mighty Mouse is a 2-button mouse [*], with a scroll-ball and a fourth button on the sides.
Great mouse.[/QUOTE]
I've become so bothered by the fact that people saying that a reason to scorn Macs is no right-click, when right-click has been around on Macs for almost a decade, that I actually made a thread-bomb to the effect, just now. [url=http://homepage.mac.com/david_of_mac/.Pictures/Works%20In%20Progress/Mac%20Right%20Click.jpg]I don't think it's the most effective one I've ever seen, but it makes my point.[/url]
The only thing more annoying would be someone saying, "Yeah, but the mouse itself still only has one button." Well, use your old mouse. Buy a new mouse from your local computer hardware supplier if its still needed on the old machine. Hold down the control-key whilst clicking normally to get the same effect. Do what I did and learn all the keyboard shortcuts so you never need the contextual menus anyway.
However, there is something very, very important in the Mac OS still being largely designed from a one-button perspective. Keeps the UI people in line. They have to actually put functions in logical, accessible places rather than just stuffing them into a right-click menu.
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As for virtualization/dual booting, I'm strongly interested in the prospects of [url=http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/]CrossOver Mac[/url] which aims to allow you to use Windows programs directly within Mac OS X, no emulation needed.
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[QUOTE]However, there is something very, very important in the Mac OS still being largely designed from a one-button perspective. Keeps the UI people in line. They have to actually put functions in logical, accessible places rather than just stuffing them into a right-click menu.[/QUOTE]
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Great mouse.[/QUOTE]
I've become so bothered by the fact that people saying that a reason to scorn Macs is no right-click, when right-click has been around on Macs for almost a decade, that I actually made a thread-bomb to the effect, just now. [url=http://homepage.mac.com/david_of_mac/.Pictures/Works%20In%20Progress/Mac%20Right%20Click.jpg]I don't think it's the most effective one I've ever seen, but it makes my point.[/url]
The only thing more annoying would be someone saying, "Yeah, but the mouse itself still only has one button." Well, use your old mouse. Buy a new mouse from your local computer hardware supplier if its still needed on the old machine. Hold down the control-key whilst clicking normally to get the same effect. Do what I did and learn all the keyboard shortcuts so you never need the contextual menus anyway.
However, there is something very, very important in the Mac OS still being largely designed from a one-button perspective. Keeps the UI people in line. They have to actually put functions in logical, accessible places rather than just stuffing them into a right-click menu.
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As for virtualization/dual booting, I'm strongly interested in the prospects of [url=http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/]CrossOver Mac[/url] which aims to allow you to use Windows programs directly within Mac OS X, no emulation needed.
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Office 2007.
Need I say more?
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