coolest thing about OSX

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:06 pm

I just discovered by accident if you hold control and scroll with the mouse wheel the whole screen zooms in massively close

no wonder designers like it

sparklepuff · Post by **sparklepuff** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:09 pm

Yet you refuse to convert. How many times to you have to discover more cool things about OSX before you see the light? Clearly your wife already has.

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:18 pm

sparklepuff wrote:Yet you refuse to convert. How many times to you have to discover more cool things about OSX before you see the light? Clearly your wife already has.

actually it's on my PC I just discovered it!

if the macbooks were 14" I would have got one - the 13" screen really did me in

I think the dual boot thing would have been smoother though, although I think I would have had to buy mroe ram because the macbooks only shipped with 512 at the time I was buying

the OSX86 hack is cool but not all the drivers are there yet so it's kind of "mostly" functional but not quite....

there are heaps of people out there with 100% working Hack Pros or Hack Books but it totally depends what hardware you use

I'm typing from it now - but I have to use a network lead because wireless doesnt work and I can only use headphones with my FW410 because the inbuilt headphone jack doesnt work, only sound from the speakers

so it's totally fine when I'm at home, but as a portable it misses out

I wish Steve would just snap out of it and release it properly

maybe he wil.....

maybe he will......

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:31 pm

BTW - do you know how to change the default web browser? it doesnt seem to be in prefs like on PC

edit - never mind looks like you have to do it in safari

sparklepuff · Post by **sparklepuff** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 2:49 pm

Yep, you got it. Safari -> Prefs -> Default Web Browser. Easy!

fatrabbit · Post by **fatrabbit** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:26 pm

Ctrl + Alt + Apple (Cmd) + 8

nate_D · Post by **nate_D** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:28 pm

cool tip! why would you want to change safari? i saw a keynote speech steve jobs gave a month or two ago claiming the new beta is faster than ie and firefox.

jeskola · Post by **jeskola** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:37 pm

forge wrote:
sparklepuff wrote:Yet you refuse to convert. How many times to you have to discover more cool things about OSX before you see the light? Clearly your wife already has.
actually it's on my PC I just discovered it!

if the macbooks were 14" I would have got one - the 13" screen really did me in

I think the dual boot thing would have been smoother though, although I think I would have had to buy mroe ram because the macbooks only shipped with 512 at the time I was buying

the OSX86 hack is cool but not all the drivers are there yet so it's kind of "mostly" functional but not quite....

there are heaps of people out there with 100% working Hack Pros or Hack Books but it totally depends what hardware you use

I'm typing from it now - but I have to use a network lead because wireless doesnt work and I can only use headphones with my FW410 because the inbuilt headphone jack doesnt work, only sound from the speakers

so it's totally fine when I'm at home, but as a portable it misses out

I wish Steve would just snap out of it and release it properly

maybe he wil.....

maybe he will......

Sure your just not making txt size bigger in your browser?!

leisuremuffin · Post by **leisuremuffin** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:06 pm

oh no, it's not just text size, it's everything.

.lm.

liveISlife · Post by **liveISlife** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:09 pm

this feature is amazingly epic! dam i am a newfag.

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:15 pm

fatrabbit wrote:Ctrl + Alt + Apple (Cmd) + 8

whoa! Awesome!!

liveISlife · Post by **liveISlife** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:19 pm

forge wrote:
fatrabbit wrote:Ctrl + Alt + Apple (Cmd) + 8
whoa! Awesome!!

amazing, feature is amazing

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:19 pm

jeskola wrote: Sure your just not making txt size bigger in your browser?!

he he...no it's way better than that

it zooms the whole computer in - whatever is on screen - not just the browser

forge · Post by **forge** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:20 pm

nate_D wrote:cool tip! why would you want to change safari? i saw a keynote speech steve jobs gave a month or two ago claiming the new beta is faster than ie and firefox.

on PC I use Opera but it seems to be way less agreeable on OSX so far

I might just update safari

there are just a few things about it that annoy me

I really like opera

liveISlife · Post by **liveISlife** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:26 pm

any other cool osx stuff?