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On my laptop I hold command+control and hit left or right arrow to move a window to the next space. I also can press CMD+1,2,3,etc to move to that space so I can quickly move to a specific space.

Edit: I just realized CMD+Control+L/R arrow to move windows is a result of running SizeUp. Sorry about that.


Isn't Gnome-Do just a Quicksilver clone? Rythmnbox just a take on iTunes for Linux? Both are great applications, and arguably an improvement on the projects that inspired them, but I wouldn't say they great examples of innovation.


Yes, and The GIMP is Photoshop for Linux. Great projects and all, but none are especially innovative on the surface.

I should say though, I think people put far, far too much weight on "innovation" and "originality" (not mentioned here but along the same lines).


Which apps do you think are innovative then?


The netbook remix UI


XMonad?


In what way?


Tiling window managers existed long before xmonad.


True. Actually one of the most impressive things about XMonad is as a proof of concept of both Haskell in general but also Haskell as a configuration scripting language.

That said, it was more important for me that it was a tiling window manager, not that it was XMonad (it's simply the one I use). Dwm would probably work just as well.


http://autos.yahoo.com/newcars/future_cars/mazda_3_2010.html

The new Mazda's always crack me up when I see them for the same reason. I wonder if it's a conscious design decision.


This one really does it for me... http://epicponyz.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/presidenheadlam...

Sorry :)


I disagree. I was pretty impressed at how readable it was on the iPhone. The biggest problem with copyright free e-books is that they are 100 years old, and mostly boring. Not all, but most.


Wow, you need to find the right 100-year-old books. Literature was if anything better then than it is now.

On the iPhone you get blurbs. I have the same problem with Classics on the iPhone. It makes reading feel cramped. Stanza is even worse: it has awful margins, and it has no support for making paragraphs feel good. It's functional but unpleasant.


I guess we can disagree on the quality of old books. There are a lot of great classics. Don't get me wrong. I wouldn't argue that only new books are worth reading, but if there are 500,000 100+ year old books available, I would still argue that 499,100 wouldn't be interesting to almost anyone outside of maybe research purposes. But hey, that's 100 free interesting books, right?


To be fair, if we publish 500,000 books a year now, less than 100 will be interesting. ;-)


I started playing banjo 8 months ago. It's pretty much been my only hobby since then. Though, I think the upstairs neighbors may have moved out as a result. I still haven't found a way to practice that's fruitful, and yet isn't way to loud for everyone else. Mutes just aren't fun.


I would recommend TextWrangler or Smultron for basic text editing with some nice extra features thrown in.


Please get over yourself. Lots of people have lots of reasons for owning whatever computer they choose. Thanks for the comical generalization though.


There was both a 12inch powerbook and ibook. I owned the 12 inch PB, and it was pretty great, but no better than any of the current 13.3 inch models.


Yes, but Macbooks and iBooks are both white. Just a point.


You seem pretty upset about this stuff. I think you're over generalizing about Apple users. Everybody buys things for different reasons.


i also vent on the other hypocrites who piss on people for buying bottled water yet are sure to lease a new mercedes every nine months


Actually one thing I really love about OS X is the placement of the command key. Keyboard shortcuts like Command+Q and Command+W are much more convenient then something like Alt+f4. Keyboard shortcuts in general in OS X have been a one of the great advantages in my experience. I also switched from Linux to mac about 4 or 5 years ago. At first it seemed very awkward. I think any change like that would be, but I was instantly appreciative of how seamless the system worked overall, and how much less I had to mess with it to get it to work right (Like I said, this was a few years ago). It's not perfect, though. I would suggest that anyone who is interested in making a jump to a new OS to try and get their hands on it before buying and see what they think.


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