![]() They're the only files I never wanted to remove from it :-) My heap of years-old-stuff-to-eventually look at is in ~/Downloads instead. I don't look at my desktop (F11) as I don't keep anything on it, except few photos of my children (not as a background, mind you, but as image files on the desktop proper). I figured F9 is silly as I'll have to reach for the mouse anyway to select the window. My mouse-to-bottom-right is Exposé "Show All Windows". I use multiple windows with multiple tabs tabs in same window mostly group a logical task that requires several shell sessions (potentially on different machines). Sometimes I need to be able to read something from a HTML page behind it, but 90% is still opaque enough not to distract the text in the terminal proper. My terminal is white-on-black, with 90% opacity. It's likely psychological, as since the icon got hidden, she doesn't complain anymore :-) On wife's Mac, even the menubar TM icon is hidden as it irritates her she's convinced the machine "slows to crawl" when it's backing up. I don't think there's anything that doesn't work if it isn't there. I'm quite a Time Machine nerd (if there can exist such a person), and I don't have it in the dock. Why do you need a separate Gmail interface? I'm quite happy with handling my GMail accounts in Mail.app over IMAP. I handle all my mail in Mail.app, even corporate Microsoft Exchange account. The banks websites remark is spot-on wife also uses Safari only for internet banking :-) I noticed it can be quite a memory hog after a while, as well as a CPU hog with some JavaScripts, so I'm sticking with Safari. Apple menu->System Preferences is good enough for me.Ĭamino is fine my wife swears by it. I don't use it often enough to justify the dock real estate. I don't keep System Preferences in the dock. It's now at the bottom, and hidden by default. I also found the counter badges in apps distracting. ![]() I used to have the dock on right hand side, but I used to click it a lot accidentally when handling UI elements near it. Of the busy screen I never see it anyhow except when I reboot.įrom: Attila Szegedi (Aug 28 2009, at 02:42) Kind of cluttered, I keep things there that I should really look at butĭon’t seem to get around to. Only one screen, it gets damn busy, but I find that the OS X UI makes that Screens, but I don’t any more, I usually leave the laptop closed. I used to distribute the windows across the laptop & outboard Whenever possible I work with my laptop plugged into the biggest monitorĪvailable. Too many important programs (Lightroom, NetBeans) that didn’t play nice with Maybe I should try again in the early days there were just I have mouse-to-bottom-right set to show the desktop, otherwise I don’t useĭon’t use it. Palette), battery status, weekday & time. Status, Canadian flag (pull it down to get at the wonderful Character Status (Spanning Sync insists), Time Machine backup status, Display Tweetie status icon, TigerLaunch, Spanning Sync status (it insists), iSync So I try to avoid having all of them going at once. NetBeans, and Eclipse are monster programs that can suck the life out of yourĬomputer. There’s an exception to the these-things-run-all-the-time rule Lightroom, Most commonlyįeatures Safari (for bank websites that don’t grok Camino), Stragglers: Dock transients that get run ad-hoc. Time Machine, because I hear some things don’t work if it’s not in theĭock. Life management group: iCal and Address Book. Or Terminal tabs, but usually have three or more Terminal windows open. tools for thickening the continuum: Terminal,Įclipse. ![]() Run with two browser windows and on average thirty or forty tabs, some of themĬreative group, i.e. OK, in 2009 it’s maybe weird to still be using Camino, but hey, it’s good. Housekeeping group: Finder and System Preferences. Here’s what’s in the dock, top to bottom the “groups” aren’t separated or Most of them I start once and run forever. I prefer the right side but can’t think of a good reason.Īlmost everything in the Dock is a runningĪpplication. It’s on the side because vertical space is at a premium on a This might be helpful for others and, even better, I might learn Since then, so I thought I’d outline how I work
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