How the bejesus did Vista do this?
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PJ S said:
Kamiga said:
Talk about smart software
Was jus wondering is it really worth getting the new vista? It seems to be well advertises
Was jus wondering is it really worth getting the new vista? It seems to be well advertises
LOL - sorry, shouldn't laugh, but Mac OS X has been doing this for the past 4 years.
Ah sod it!..........
but OS X doesn't give you thumbnails of your photos in the Finder. This irritates me intensely. Sensible Mac fans admit this is a major deficiency.
Zod said:
but OS X doesn't give you thumbnails of your photos in the Finder. This irritates me intensely. Sensible Mac fans admit this is a major deficiency.
You can turn that on somehow - I'll try and find the link. But you're right that it's madness not to do it as default.
edit to add that it's as PJ S describes below, but I'm pretty much certain it's off by default - my MBP is only a month or so old, so relatively un-fiddled with...
Edited by jamieboy on Monday 12th March 14:59
jamieboy said:
Zod said:
but OS X doesn't give you thumbnails of your photos in the Finder. This irritates me intensely. Sensible Mac fans admit this is a major deficiency.
You can turn that on somehow - I'll try and find the link. But you're right that it's madness not to do it as default.
Time for us to
at you then.
carrera2 said:
jamieboy said:
Zod said:
but OS X doesn't give you thumbnails of your photos in the Finder. This irritates me intensely. Sensible Mac fans admit this is a major deficiency.
You can turn that on somehow - I'll try and find the link. But you're right that it's madness not to do it as default.
Time for us to
at you then. all you want - I know how much you enjoy it - but mine spends most of it's life running Vista... Zod said:
PJ S said:
Kamiga said:
Talk about smart software
Was jus wondering is it really worth getting the new vista? It seems to be well advertises
Was jus wondering is it really worth getting the new vista? It seems to be well advertises
LOL - sorry, shouldn't laugh, but Mac OS X has been doing this for the past 4 years.
Ah sod it!..........
but OS X doesn't give you thumbnails of your photos in the Finder. This irritates me intensely. Sensible Mac fans admit this is a major deficiency.
It doesn't? Better tell Steve his software is broken then.
Here's a hint - Finder>open folder>View Options>Preview Column ticked.
I'm fairly sure it's on by default, but it's been ever so long since I done a new install from scratch, I can't be 100% sure.
That's part and parcel of any new OS - you spend the first half hour looking trough it and customising it to how you prefer it.
MS doesn't trust its users to be savvy enough to figure that one out for themselves - which given how Windows is designed, isn't necessarily a bad view to hold, since it's true!
ThatPhilBrettGuy said:
Most cameras have a sensor in them that tells them which way up they are, and then writes that data into the JPG header.
If you have a Nikon D40/50/80, they rattle when you shake them - it's the orientation sensor.
And sometimes, if you're using them with the lens pointing straight down, they get a little confused....
PJ S said:
Kamiga said:
Talk about smart software
Was jus wondering is it really worth getting the new vista? It seems to be well advertises
Was jus wondering is it really worth getting the new vista? It seems to be well advertises
LOL - sorry, shouldn't laugh, but Mac OS X has been doing this for the past 4 years.
Ah sod it!..........
PC cost me £200 though, and runs windows out of the box...how much time / money did it cost to get your mac running Vista? £1500? Many many hours? Here, have one on me
Well there are probably “other ways” to get vista than paying a fortune for it. what I meant by asking was , is it worth the hustle of getting new software, installing it etc you get new versions of windows every few years, some better some worst, millennium was shit for example
As far as photos are concerned, adobe Photoshop does the turning for me.
Hehe no worries, nthg bad in a bit of laughter
As far as photos are concerned, adobe Photoshop does the turning for me.
Hehe no worries, nthg bad in a bit of laughter
PJ S said:
Zod said:
PJ S said:
Kamiga said:
Talk about smart software
Was jus wondering is it really worth getting the new vista? It seems to be well advertises
Was jus wondering is it really worth getting the new vista? It seems to be well advertises
LOL - sorry, shouldn't laugh, but Mac OS X has been doing this for the past 4 years.
Ah sod it!..........
but OS X doesn't give you thumbnails of your photos in the Finder. This irritates me intensely. Sensible Mac fans admit this is a major deficiency.
It doesn't? Better tell Steve his software is broken then.
Here's a hint - Finder>open folder>View Options>Preview Column ticked.
I'm fairly sure it's on by default, but it's been ever so long since I done a new install from scratch, I can't be 100% sure.
That's part and parcel of any new OS - you spend the first half hour looking trough it and customising it to how you prefer it.
MS doesn't trust its users to be savvy enough to figure that one out for themselves - which given how Windows is designed, isn't necessarily a bad view to hold, since it's true!
Zod said:
The preview column is NOT what I am talking about. That just previews the selected item. I mean thumbnail view of all items, something even Windows XP can do, although Vista does it much better.
If you turn on the 'show icon preview' then it works pretty much the same as it does in XP, i.e. you get a thumbnail view in Finder. Or at least it does on our two. Zod said:
The preview column is NOT what I am talking about. That just previews the selected item. I mean thumbnail view of all items, something even Windows XP can do, although Vista does it much better.
Ah, so that'll be the icon view rather than column view option, then?
Yeah, been there since OS X.1, I think.
Granted some jpegs show as thumbnail, others (for whatever reason) as a jpg icon with folding over top right corner.
Still, that's what preview in column view takes care of.
tigger1 said:
PJ S said:
Kamiga said:
Talk about smart software
Was jus wondering is it really worth getting the new vista? It seems to be well advertises
Was jus wondering is it really worth getting the new vista? It seems to be well advertises
LOL - sorry, shouldn't laugh, but Mac OS X has been doing this for the past 4 years.
Ah sod it!..........
PC cost me £200 though, and runs windows out of the box...how much time / money did it cost to get your mac running Vista? £1500? Many many hours? Here, have one on me
Thank you tigs, but my iMac cost £1100 ish 14 months ago and doesn't run Vista or XP - no need to since all I need is available in OS X format.
If I wanted to, I would simply use Bootcamp to run Windows, but I've no need to, so hence I don't.
Oh, and it'd take all of about 30mins or so to install seeing as it's 2GB and 2GHz Core Duo.
Something your cheap and cheerful £200 box probably wished it could.
Still, to each their own.
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