Mark as read

It's a nice touch in every newsreader.

 

Mark all as read is nice.

 

Ctrl A, Ctrl Q is quicker.

 

So is <apple> E and stuff.

 

You have a 'stuff' key?

Is that next to the 'any' key?

 

Yeh, it's next to things and wassaname.

 

On Macs, it's like "hit anything".....

That reminds me. In my hotel room recently there was a plug-in broadband
connection for laptops, plus a laminated card of instructions.

For Windoze users there was: "plug in the connection first, then switch
on, then go to internet panel, choose this, select that, check this box,
put in this number...now you are ready."

For Mac users it was like: "Plug in, switch on, it ought to work."

 

That sounds typical, yes. Same sort of drill for WiFi and Bluetooth,
which is so refreshing after having to contend with other systems ways
of getting the same end result. Sun, Windows, HP-UX, Linux and all.

 

We had the father in law cat-sitting for us whilst we were away.

Despite me turning off all my WiFi security, his laptop refused to
establish a connection with my wifi access point. I did a quick rundown
of all the details for him, but he still couldn't get it to connect.

In contrast, when I bought my new Mac, I just switched it on and it
hooked up without any intervention.

 

I've had much the same experience when I had friends over with PCs and
tried to get them hooked up onto my WiFi network. My mate with her shiny
new iBook set it up herself, and she was a novice and new to Macs.

I did say that I'd support her with her Mac[1], if she had problems with
it. In the year she's had it, she only rang me once, and that turned out
to be the router had crashed. My Land lords ex, her PC I formatted and
reinstalled with Win98 died again 6 weeks later. Now the darn thing is
sitting on the floor in the living room again. <sigh>

[1] She's an ex Windows user.

 

Power button. Kills the whole shooting match with one press.

 

Unsubscribe is more specific.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Chris H amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

Nah, Ctrl + Shift + C is

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Muck amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

<fx: Does a chad impression>

So how long does it take to get familiarised with a mac then?

<fx: ducks back down behind the wall>

 

On Macs, it's like "hit anything".....

That reminds me. In my hotel room recently there was a plug-in broadband
connection for laptops, plus a laminated card of instructions.

For Windoze users there was: "plug in the connection first, then switch
on, then go to internet panel, choose this, select that, check this box,
put in this number...now you are ready."

For Mac users it was like: "Plug in, switch on, it ought to work."[/QUOTE]

When I spent a month in Texas last year I just got into my hotel room,
opened my laptop, plugged the ethernet cable in and it worked right
away. I didn't even have to reconfigure my DNS settings or IP
address.

 

He's my mate. Mark, that is. He reads far faster than I do and
doesn't pass alomng any of the dross he sees.

 

A bit of collateral is worth it.

 

Through my own personal experience, quite quickly. There are some rather
neat things that you discover after a very short while. My friend
switched over quickly too, it's not a hard thing to do.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Muck amazed us all with this pearl of wisdom:

I *may* have a play with one when the time comes for a new computer.
That won't be for at least a year though and I'd like to have a hands-on
with one for a week to see if I like it.

 

Heh, Dell will be likely selling Macs about then, when the Intel
processor ones start shipping.