Comments on: A Year In The Life Of A Secret Mac User

By: AAA Copywriter
7 Jan 2008 6:29pm GMT Well, what can I say, being a Mac user (and lover) since 1987? Apple sure focused on excellent design, but often some of their machines are awkward to handle, and I still complain about silly and rally unpleasant bugs in Mac OS X. However, I wold not switch to Win for any reason. If even Macs' defects get on my nerves, I know they still are better suited to my that anything I can think of... ;) Alex

By: Beppone
9 Nov 2007 9:26am GMT Thank's from a switcher... nice post

By: Alec
19 Oct 2007 8:49am GMT Interesting choice of apps. We came down almost always on the opposite side. Mail = Eudora Text = BBEdit Dashboard = none, with Art Director's Toolkit, XE.com, Menu Meters doing substitute duty Quicksilver = Butler Fusion = real PC under desk One thing to keep in mind is that if you ever activate dashboard, all those widgets suck up memory for the life of that boot. I've tried to disable all the dashboard hotkeys and corners to make sure that it doesn't jump into action. I have come around...

By: John
2 Oct 2007 12:54pm GMT I've only had one problem with 1passwd so far, where it constantly forgets an SVN password on one particular site. No idea why, as it manages fine on others. The 1passwd team seem to be very active and hopefully it will get covered by a new release. I was using Mail Badger (similar to Dockstar, and free), but after months of it working perfectly it stopped one day and wouldn't allow me to select the Mail window (it would always hide behind everything else). I removed the plugin and...

By: Rob
1 Oct 2007 9:12pm GMT Cool, always good to meet a fellow Mac person. It's funny how much similarity we have in this post. I bought a Mini almost a year ago and love it. Although I'd been using a G4 PowerMac for the last 6 years. I use my Mini as a media center, which is very fun. I use EyeTV for recording over-the-air HDTV. Apple's FrontRow gives a media-rich experience. And I use RemoteBuddy for a replacement Apple Remote utility. It's like Quicksilver for the remote. I use a lot of the apps you mentioned....

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