I was thinking the same thing. He neglected to mention Expose entirely, supposedly because it wouldnt gel with his theory that managing windows is difficult.
I can flick between tasks with the click of a button in under a second with it.
@Drago totally. that problem is solved, paul miller. forget about it. it's done. I feel sorry for you if just putting all your fingers on a trackpad and swiping down is too complicated for you to remember. jesus christ, it's one of the most basic actions I can imagine with a computer. and the latter point in no. 1 is basically just spotlight combined with the awesomebar in firefox. spotlight already pulls safari history, i'm sure it's a pretty simple mod if you need that desperately. it gives me the impression that paul hasn't spent much time at all on a modern macbook. which I can't imagine is true. so what's going on paul? seriously, expose totally changes window management, just how you described, and you have to be pretty braindead not to be able to use it intuitively. come on.
@Adamgs Correct. And about spaces. I thought it was a superfluous feature I remember using a multi desktop application on windows a long time ago, I believe it was made by Netscape, and I never liked it.
I started to force myself to use spaces and now i find it very helpful.
For example I can have the main stuff I'm working on on my main space. A remote desktop to my server on the second (always on). itunes always open on the 3rd and so on.
I also didn't liked it at first but It's good specially if you are consistent and always open the same apps on the secondary spaces, thus you get used to it until it's muscle memory.
"A nice little touchscreen flick (or maybe a pinch and flick, go wild!), could tell my computer that I don't want to see that entire application anymore -- while staying safe in knowing that Growl will pick up anything I'm missing by not having that window poking through 1/32nd of my screen."
@Drago You can get Expose and Spaces for Windows too. Search for "Switcher for Windows Vista" for Windows-equivalent of Expose and "VirtuaWin" for Spaces.
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Exposé FTW
@Drago
I was thinking the same thing. He neglected to mention Expose entirely, supposedly because it wouldnt gel with his theory that managing windows is difficult.
I can flick between tasks with the click of a button in under a second with it.
Spaces...i dont think i ever used that...
@Adamgs Indeed. After Exposé you begin to wonder how you were able to work before it existed.
@Drago
totally. that problem is solved, paul miller. forget about it. it's done. I feel sorry for you if just putting all your fingers on a trackpad and swiping down is too complicated for you to remember. jesus christ, it's one of the most basic actions I can imagine with a computer.
and the latter point in no. 1 is basically just spotlight combined with the awesomebar in firefox. spotlight already pulls safari history, i'm sure it's a pretty simple mod if you need that desperately.
it gives me the impression that paul hasn't spent much time at all on a modern macbook. which I can't imagine is true. so what's going on paul? seriously, expose totally changes window management, just how you described, and you have to be pretty braindead not to be able to use it intuitively. come on.
@Drago
Badly. OSX had nothing, you were consistently trying to drag windows around your screen to click the one you wanted.
Of course you could use the dock as a taskbar and minimize them but i dont think minimizing ever caught on with OSX users?
@Adamgs Correct. And about spaces. I thought it was a superfluous feature I remember using a multi desktop application on windows a long time ago, I believe it was made by Netscape, and I never liked it.
I started to force myself to use spaces and now i find it very helpful.
For example I can have the main stuff I'm working on on my main space. A remote desktop to my server on the second (always on). itunes always open on the 3rd and so on.
I also didn't liked it at first but It's good specially if you are consistent and always open the same apps on the secondary spaces, thus you get used to it until it's muscle memory.
"A nice little touchscreen flick (or maybe a pinch and flick, go wild!), could tell my computer that I don't want to see that entire application anymore -- while staying safe in knowing that Growl will pick up anything I'm missing by not having that window poking through 1/32nd of my screen."
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@Drago
You can get Expose and Spaces for Windows too. Search for "Switcher for Windows Vista" for Windows-equivalent of Expose and "VirtuaWin" for Spaces.