MAC People Help Please!

[meady100]

Hi Guys,

I've been checking out my mates new iMac, and overall I'm pretty impressed. One thing is bugging the hell out of me though - the mouse acceleration. What's the big idea in making the pointer suddenly move like treacle as it slows down? I can't see how on earth this would making drawing freehand in Photoshop possible (I'm a graphic designer), yet their seems to be no way of turning it off! Is there something I don't know about?!

Also, and this is a simple one; using bootcamp, has anyone successfully played CS: Source :-D

I love my iPhone experience and could be tempted to make the jump if it wasn't for these niggles!

Thanks,

Steve

 

[Daz]

Not sure what you mean with the mouse - I never noticed it? It may be a setting - it's pretty configurable. It certainly doesn't annoy me on the iMac and I never noticed it on my Macbook Pro either (running either OSX or Windows XP/Vista)

As for CS on Bootcamp(XP/Vista), it'll run like any native Windows machine with the same specification.. I don't play games so I can't comment, but you may know the specification needed for it.

 

[Brown.]

Never noticed either.....even macbook touch pad is very very direct and accurate

 

[meady100]

Maybe the pointer thing is something you get used to; for now, having it move in an unpredictable way is very disorientating! Have you ever drawn anything freehand - I can't imagine how it would be possible, having it whizz of every so often... at low speeds it's extremely slow, then it suddenly jumps up about four gears. Nothing obvious in the prefs, either.

EDIT: Actually just found this article about it, which describes my problems exactly! : http://db.tidbits.com/article/8893

The CS things sounds promising, as it actually has extremely low specs by today's standards.

Oh! One other thing, but I'm a complete dummy at this >.< I downloaded a .dmg of VLC player, then tried to drag the executable inside onto the dock, and it did indeed appear. But it doesn't seem to launch from there, and after a reboot it isn't there anymore. Please feel free to tell me to RTFM!

 

[sn00p]

Oh! One other thing, but I'm a complete dummy at this >.< I downloaded a .dmg of VLC player, then tried to drag the executable inside onto the dock, and it did indeed appear. But it doesn't seem to launch from there, and after a reboot it isn't there anymore. Please feel free to tell me to RTFM!

Drag the application to to the application folder and drag it from there to the dock, don't drag it directly from the DMG to the dock.

 

[Daz]

Open DMG, drag to the Applications folder.
Open from Applications/Spotlight, right click dock icon and "Keep Icon in Dock".

Done.

 

[Daz]

Damnit. :rasp:

 

[sn00p]

Damnit. :rasp:

Keep up boy. Get yourself a mac instead of that dell crap.

 

[meady100]

Open DMG, drag to the Applications folder.
Open from Applications/Spotlight, right click dock icon and "Keep Icon in Dock".

Done.

Thanks for the tech support . I assume that's just the executable, not any other files that are lying around in the image, then?

 

[Daz]

Open DMG, drag to the Applications folder.
Open from Applications/Spotlight, right click dock icon and "Keep Icon in Dock".

Done.

Thanks for the tech support . I assume that's just the executable, not any other files that are lying around in the image, then?

Not usually no.. It's very simple and easy.. none of this random DLLs going into random paths going

Thanks for quoting me and not that sn00p moron.

Daz on his Dell laptop.

 

[sn00p]

Open DMG, drag to the Applications folder.
Open from Applications/Spotlight, right click dock icon and "Keep Icon in Dock".

Done.

Thanks for the tech support . I assume that's just the executable, not any other files that are lying around in the image, then?

OS X does applications the correct way round, they're special folders called "bundles". (Risc OS also used this approach in 1987). Basically, the application stores all it's code and support files inside that folder...anything else inside the DMG is fluff.

The reason it doesn't work dragging directly to the dock from the DMG is that the DMG is basically just a ramdisk, and when you drag the app to the dock you're creating a shortcut....creating a shortcut to a ramdisk is not a good idea....

Dragging to the applications folder "installs" (see bundle explanation above) the app, so when you drag it to the dock your dragging something that will always exist....

 

[meady100]

Thanks for the tech support . I assume that's just the executable, not any other files that are lying around in the image, then?

OS X does applications the correct way round, they're special folders called "bundles". (Risc OS also used this approach in 1987). Basically, the application stores all it's code and support files inside that folder...anything else inside the DMG is fluff.

The reason it doesn't work dragging directly to the dock from the DMG is that the DMG is basically just a ramdisk, and when you drag the app to the dock you're creating a shortcut....creating a shortcut to a ramdisk is not a good idea....

Dragging to the applications folder "installs" (see bundle explanation above) the app, so when you drag it to the dock your dragging something that will always exist....

Thanks for explaining that - great stuff ^^