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Blogging the learning curve: aka 'The Mac Follies'
1. The iBook is cute and eeny. It looks nonthreatening. Perhaps this won't be so bad.
2. It took me five minutes to figure out what the damn 'Finder' thing was. What is so terrible about a menu? Why do we have to have things in a box? I thought this was some folder thingy that someone had left open. I already feel stupid. *hits head on wall*
3. I got the Airport thing turned on. Go me.
4. It can pronounce my name correctly (+) but not Tallin (-). Eloquence still can't pronounce my name correctly, defying its name. Obviously none of its developers are Jewish.
5. There are no little floaty tool tips. *pine*
6. I hate hate hate hate the mouse. HATE the mouse. HATE THE MOUSE. The trackpad thing feels really sticky and the one button thing is just not working for me. I keep double clicking on things and then they don't work right. *hits head on wall again*
7. Chris, probably sick of me berating myself, is trying to figure out how the TTS program works. Apparently it is reasonable but nonintuitive so far. Of course he doesn't seem to have my screaming inadequacy problem.
Stay tuned.
8. Found the 'column' view in Finder. That's actually much more intuitive.
9. Can not install OpenOffice because it won't work with Tiger; can not use AppleWorks because I think![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kareila was right about the Carbon/Cocoa apps thing. (There's no point in having a word processing program that we can't both use.) Fortunately iWork seems to be cheap, yay for academic pricing.
10. Am very impressed with battery life and teeny/light size of machine.
11. Turns out the sluggish-mouse thing is a side effect of VoiceOver being on; if you turn it off the mouse actually MOVES properly.
12. Annoyed by Apple closing at 6PDT. One thing you can say about MS - they do have longer tech support hours. Their documentation for VoiceOver isn't that great, apparently.
13. Figured out that the menu at the top of the screen is NOT a system thing, but changes by application. *hits head on wall again* Yes, I'm really observant.
14. The mouse is now vaguely useable, but I still want a trackball.
15. I get that those alien things on the menus (the cloveleaf thingy and the slip-and-slide thingy) are supposed to be Magic Code for some kind of key combination, but I can't figure out what the frigging slip-and-slide thingy is supposed to MEAN.
2. It took me five minutes to figure out what the damn 'Finder' thing was. What is so terrible about a menu? Why do we have to have things in a box? I thought this was some folder thingy that someone had left open. I already feel stupid. *hits head on wall*
3. I got the Airport thing turned on. Go me.
4. It can pronounce my name correctly (+) but not Tallin (-). Eloquence still can't pronounce my name correctly, defying its name. Obviously none of its developers are Jewish.
5. There are no little floaty tool tips. *pine*
6. I hate hate hate hate the mouse. HATE the mouse. HATE THE MOUSE. The trackpad thing feels really sticky and the one button thing is just not working for me. I keep double clicking on things and then they don't work right. *hits head on wall again*
7. Chris, probably sick of me berating myself, is trying to figure out how the TTS program works. Apparently it is reasonable but nonintuitive so far. Of course he doesn't seem to have my screaming inadequacy problem.
Stay tuned.
8. Found the 'column' view in Finder. That's actually much more intuitive.
9. Can not install OpenOffice because it won't work with Tiger; can not use AppleWorks because I think
kareila was right about the Carbon/Cocoa apps thing. (There's no point in having a word processing program that we can't both use.) Fortunately iWork seems to be cheap, yay for academic pricing.10. Am very impressed with battery life and teeny/light size of machine.
11. Turns out the sluggish-mouse thing is a side effect of VoiceOver being on; if you turn it off the mouse actually MOVES properly.
12. Annoyed by Apple closing at 6PDT. One thing you can say about MS - they do have longer tech support hours. Their documentation for VoiceOver isn't that great, apparently.
13. Figured out that the menu at the top of the screen is NOT a system thing, but changes by application. *hits head on wall again* Yes, I'm really observant.
14. The mouse is now vaguely useable, but I still want a trackball.
15. I get that those alien things on the menus (the cloveleaf thingy and the slip-and-slide thingy) are supposed to be Magic Code for some kind of key combination, but I can't figure out what the frigging slip-and-slide thingy is supposed to MEAN.
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I want to at least have it to open my old files.
(Chris wants to know if you'll be up for a bit?)
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Not sure on this - you'd probably have to find the developer's site, though verstiontracker will no doubt have a link to that.
(Chris wants to know if you'll be up for a bit?)
Regrettably, as I'm sure you ascertained, I was not. Your comment showed up in my before-bed checking of email.