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		<title>MBP Annoyances</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 23:55:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tony Perrie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love my Macbook and basically only use Windows now for watching DivX video and syncing my iPod (because I&#8217;ve been too lazy to link it to my MBP&#8217;s copy of iTunes.) No platform is a utopia and OS X is no exception. I&#8217;ve grown to love OS X more than Windows, but with the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love my Macbook and basically only use Windows now for watching DivX video and syncing my iPod (because I&#8217;ve been too lazy to link it to my MBP&#8217;s copy of iTunes.)  No platform is a utopia and OS X is no exception.  I&#8217;ve grown to love OS X more than Windows, but with the love comes some annoyances.</p>
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<li>You can add a person from iChat into your address book, but the avatar doesn&#8217;t get copied over into as the user picture.  <s>As a matter of fact, I can find no way to drag or copy/paste the image over from iChat to Mail.app outside of using &#8220;Grabber&#8221; to copy the entire window.</s>  Actually, copy/paste works, but you have to leave the iChat Get Info page&#8217;s image editor open, hit copy, and then paste the image into Address Book.  I think it should just automatically do this if an iChat avatar exists.</li>
<li>Why doesn&#8217;t iChat support other protocols than AIM?</li>
<li>Why doesn&#8217;t iSync work with my Verizon RAZR?  (I&#8217;ve tried all the &#8220;seem&#8221; edits to the RAZR&#8217;s firmware already).</li>
<li>If I copy from a Terminal and paste into TextMate or Mail.app, sometimes, the newlines are lost.</li>
<li>My MBP sometimes sporadically shuts down when the battery is low (without running on reserve).  I can turn it back on after hitting the power button or clicking the mouse button a couple of times.  My Powerbook running the same version of OS X does not do this.</li>
<li>OS X doesn&#8217;t use ls &#8211;color by default.  Red Hat has had this since like 1997.  I had to compile a new version of ls from Fink to get this to work.</li>
<li>Keyboard shortcuts are inconsistent.  &lt;Command&gt;-R is &#8220;Refresh&#8221; in Safari, &#8220;Rotate&#8221; in Preview, and &#8220;Reply&#8221; in Mail.app.  On Windows, &lt;F5&gt; is &#8220;Refresh&#8221; everywhere.  Window navigation is also quite strange.  In Terminal.app and Firefox, you can do a &lt;Command&gt;-1,2,3,4,.. to access each of your sub-windows, but none of the other apps support this.  Fortunately, &lt;Command&gt;-&lt;`&gt; seems to cycle through all of the windows in most apps (except Firefox).</li>
<li>Digital video is a bigger mess on OS X than it is under MS Windows.  You have to pay for Quicktime Pro if you want to view a full screen video file (or use VLC which doesn&#8217;t integrate with Firefox or Safari).  Also, Quicktime doesn&#8217;t support esoteric codecs and when it encounters one it doesn&#8217;t understand it forwards you to an apple.com help page of little use.  Just yesterday, I tried playing an MSNBC video in Firefox, and it didn&#8217;t work even though Flip4Mac is installed.  Arrrgh.</li>
<li>Package management is rather broken.  Darwinports and Fink work sometimes, but most of my development tool chain had to be manually compiled using instructions for Hivelogic and others</li>
<li>Preview.app doesn&#8217;t resize PDFs when resizing a window.  It defaults to a pretty much unreadable Zoom-level</li>
<li>The only Flickr Uploadr fucntion comes from the ConnectedFlow FlickrExport iPhoto plugin and costs 20 USD</li>
<li>Holding down &lt;Shift&gt; and using arrows to select is counter-intuitive.  If you do a &lt;Shift&gt;-&lt;Down&gt;,&lt;Shift&gt;-&lt;Down&gt;, then &lt;Shift&gt;-&lt;Up&gt; selects the two files below and one file above.  To my mind, it makes more sense for &lt;Shift&gt;-&lt;Up&gt; to unselect the last one selected.  This interaction paradigm is supported by Microsoft Windows and Gnome.  Perhaps, my mind can&#8217;t adjust to the Mac-way of doing things</li>
<li>I don&#8217;t love Finder or Spotlight.  Microsoft Windows Explorer with the Google Desktop Search seemed to do the job a lot better on Windows XP.</li>
<li>Why don&#8217;t they have a docking station yet?  That&#8217;s one thing that I really miss about my Thinkpad.</li>
<li>Changing icons is fairly unintuitive.  You have to &#8220;Get Info&#8221; on a Desktop icon, and then drag a new icon over to the image within the Get Info page.  Very strange considering that there&#8217;s no breadcrumb that indicates that this is even possible from that interface.</li>
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<p>UPDATE: I just pressed the button on the MBP&#8217;s battery and noticed that it gives you a five LED indication of its own charge level!  That makes up for all of these troubles. </p>
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