Comments on: Joys and Frustrations of a New Mac User http://voirol.com/blog/2009/02/03/joys-and-frustrations-of-a-new-mac-user/ thoughts on user experience, online strategy and social media Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:50:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Keith Lang http://voirol.com/blog/2009/02/03/joys-and-frustrations-of-a-new-mac-user/comment-page-1/#comment-4627 Keith Lang Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:07:11 +0000 http://voirol.com/blog/?p=4#comment-4627 @voirol Thanks for the handy personal Mac story — http://twurl.nl/zejjgt

[Original tweet, Topsy page]

]]> By: Tom Voirol http://voirol.com/blog/2009/02/03/joys-and-frustrations-of-a-new-mac-user/comment-page-1/#comment-4628 Tom Voirol Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:01:35 +0000 http://voirol.com/blog/?p=4#comment-4628 @songcarver For me it's mainly the lack (or obscurity) of expert paths to getting things done. RMB, kb shortcuts etc. http://twurl.nl/zejjgt

[Original tweet, Topsy page]

]]> By: Keith Lang http://voirol.com/blog/2009/02/03/joys-and-frustrations-of-a-new-mac-user/comment-page-1/#comment-10368 Keith Lang Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:07:11 +0000 http://voirol.com/blog/?p=4#comment-10368 @voirol Thanks for the handy personal Mac story — http://twurl.nl/zejjgt

]]> By: Tom Voirol http://voirol.com/blog/2009/02/03/joys-and-frustrations-of-a-new-mac-user/comment-page-1/#comment-10369 Tom Voirol Sat, 24 Oct 2009 15:01:35 +0000 http://voirol.com/blog/?p=4#comment-10369 @songcarver For me it's mainly the lack (or obscurity) of expert paths to getting things done. RMB, kb shortcuts etc. http://twurl.nl/zejjgt

]]> By: Ara http://voirol.com/blog/2009/02/03/joys-and-frustrations-of-a-new-mac-user/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Ara Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:19:23 +0000 http://voirol.com/blog/?p=4#comment-12 iCal und Mail sind arg schlechte Programme. Apple müsste die wirklich überarbeiten. Ich war damit nie glücklich. Ganz schlimm auch die fehlende Integration von Mail in iCal. Und dann die todo’s: mit dem iPhone werden die nicht mal abgeglichen hää? Was soll das. Naja es kann nur besser werden und sonst gibt es zum Glück Alternativen.

]]> By: Tom Voirol http://voirol.com/blog/2009/02/03/joys-and-frustrations-of-a-new-mac-user/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Tom Voirol Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:00:42 +0000 http://voirol.com/blog/?p=4#comment-11 You hate iPhoto, Gordon? Photoshop Elements (formerly Photoshop Album) is one of the few reasons I still keep Windows on VMWare. I was just about ready to switch to iPhoto ’09.

What is it you hate about the software?

]]> By: Gordon Renouf http://voirol.com/blog/2009/02/03/joys-and-frustrations-of-a-new-mac-user/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Gordon Renouf Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:08:51 +0000 http://voirol.com/blog/?p=4#comment-8 Mac for 25 years and PC for 10 (ie 10 years of Mac at home and PC at work). Although Windows is much better than it was when I was first forced to transition, there are still annoyances. But also benefits: tool bar across the bottom much better than Mac program bar in relation to documents – Mac bar better for programs than Start button. Windows long file names; Mac limitation annoying.
Mac find file brilliant, Windows terrible. Windows habit of saving email attachments in temp file (at least on my network) and not in a real place – so if you forget to resave you lose your amendments.

And I agree about inconsistencies and wierdness about some OSX features and iLife applications. I really hate iPhoto and gave up on Mail and Address book more than 5 years ago [use something we based?].

But some of your complaints I don’t get: My Power book has home end page up and page down? Buy a keyboard and you get forward delete button (you can’t seriously do all your typing on the laptop keyboard?). Never noticed the resizing issue – I think you may be applying the Windows metaphor to the Mac interface when the Mac does something different?).

Oh and let’s not start on inconsistencies between Mac and WIndows versions of Word.

So in summary: different animals. Both could do better.

]]> By: Tom Voirol http://voirol.com/blog/2009/02/03/joys-and-frustrations-of-a-new-mac-user/comment-page-1/#comment-5 Tom Voirol Tue, 03 Mar 2009 04:00:07 +0000 http://voirol.com/blog/?p=4#comment-5 Ah yes, iCal. It feels like about a decade of user interface innovations have passed that application by. The others are good examples too.

]]> By: Grant Young http://voirol.com/blog/2009/02/03/joys-and-frustrations-of-a-new-mac-user/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Grant Young Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:01:46 +0000 http://voirol.com/blog/?p=4#comment-2 As a long time mac user, I couldn’t agree more. I always find it fascinating and frustrating how such obvious omissions are overlooked by mac fans.

It’s especially annoying when assisting someone who recently switched – the number of times you have to say “do this, oh, except if you’re here”.

Another obvious annoyance is the lack of a clear and simple way to burn a multi-session CD, the really bad handling of notes editing in Address Book and iCal’s ridiculously unusable “info” panel, that literally runs off the screen in some cases.

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