Comments on: Mac Switching: Think "Too Different" http://www.brainhandles.com/2006/12/20/mac-switching-think-too-different/ Whatever's tugging at my brain handles Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:39:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Sergio http://www.brainhandles.com/2006/12/20/mac-switching-think-too-different/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Sergio Sun, 04 Mar 2007 21:11:16 +0000 http://www.brainhandles.com/2006/12/11/mac-switching-the-finder-sucks/#comment-18 The tree+view interface yes, I miss it too - the "Next style" column view is a bit better in some cases (like previews) but generally worse for navigating quickly deep folder trees; the other "Os9 style" views are just unusable. I think that the old Finder interface led Mac users to keep their folder trees shallow and wide, so everything was fine; but it does not play well with Unix-derived stuff and users (like me), that use deep tree structures. For Crimson, try TextMate - it's a pretty decent editor, and it gives you a project view with a side pane, which I find as good as tabs, especially on a wide screen format like the MB. Or jump ship and go for Eclipse - but you should buy it an extra 512MB just for it :-) For picture vire/crop/convert/adjust, I find that iPhoto does the job well; it's only annoying that it does not work on the single file, you have to bring the picture in the library. If you find a good WinSCP replacement, just let me know :-) The tree+view interface yes, I miss it too - the "Next style" column view is a bit better in some cases (like previews) but generally worse for navigating quickly deep folder trees; the other "Os9 style" views are just unusable. I think that the old Finder interface led Mac users to keep their folder trees shallow and wide, so everything was fine; but it does not play well with Unix-derived stuff and users (like me), that use deep tree structures.

For Crimson, try TextMate - it's a pretty decent editor, and it gives you a project view with a side pane, which I find as good as tabs, especially on a wide screen format like the MB. Or jump ship and go for Eclipse - but you should buy it an extra 512MB just for it :-)

For picture vire/crop/convert/adjust, I find that iPhoto does the job well; it's only annoying that it does not work on the single file, you have to bring the picture in the library.

If you find a good WinSCP replacement, just let me know :-)

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