Linked by David Adams on Mon 15th Oct 2001 02:23 UTC
OS News' review of Mac OS X last week certainly stirred up controversy, partially because some die hard Mac fans perceived that it was improper for an outsider (someone who is not an everyday Mac user) to me making broad criticisms after only a superficial introduction to the New operating system. Well, folks, that's why they call it a review. We thought that Apple's major new OS also deserved a road test, and there were two very important events in Mac OS X history just a few days ago that toppled the last major obstacle to making it ready for millions of Mac users to start using it as their everyday OS: the 10.1 release and the release of Microsoft Office X. Last week, I made the switch and started using Mac OS X as my everyday OS. Here's how it went:
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I hate the dock. it sucks. they need to do some serious work on it. in the meantime, what I did (which works EXCELLENTLY) is I replaced it with an app that does so much more and does it with such little effort. it's called DragThing. I've been using dragthing as long as I've had a mac (only 4 years, but who's counting?) because I thought the launcher and app switcher were annoying as hell. dragthing creates launcher docks and process docks (as meny or few as you like, you don't even have to have one of each) that you can customize in size, color, function, and position on your screen (they don't even have to be attached to an edge of the screen). the process doc shows all current running processes (there are even options to show hidden processes, trash, and disks in the process dock). you can get info on an item in a dock, you can hide, show, and quit a process or empty the trash strait from the process dock. the launcher dock is really sweet, too. it works on a tab system and you basically store shortcuts in slots and launch the items (folders, files, or programs) with a single click and catagorize them however you like by naming, coloring, and styling your tabs (I had a launcher dock for X docs & apps and one for classic docs & apps). it has options to hide any process with a keystroke (I use whatever key is to the far right of my function keys to hide the current app because I never use that key for anything else). DEFINATELY worth the contribution to dragthing's makers and DEFINATELY one of those apps that will make you wonder what the hell you were doing before!! PS-I DO NOT work for the dragthing guys, I'm just a fan =) -vo (sticky.waferbaby.com)