September 20, 2010

The intuitiveness of the Mac

In windows, there is a keyboard button for this ...

If you want to do a screen capture for a particular application window, you can follow this:-


  • Switch to the screen that you wan to to do screen capture

  • Hold down Apple key ⌘ +

  • Shift + 4 and release all key

  • Now, You will see the mouse cursor will change to +

  • Press the space bar once

  • You will see the mouse cursor change to a camera

  • Now you can use the camera to select which application window to screen capture

  • Once finish, you will see a picture file in at your desktop.

  • That’s the screen capture picture!

    REFS:

    Answer source:

    Closing thought(s):

    And here I thought it was me...

    September 16, 2010

    Learning and relearning

    Wahhaaaa?

    The only thing I am learning is how much I don't know about UNIX.

    REFS:

    I Still feel like this!

    Closing thought(s):

    Practice not saying "In that space ..."

    September 09, 2010

    What is this place?

    New iMac is in ...

    This is not as intuitive as people say. After working in Windows since its first release there are a lot of things I do without even thinking about them. Everyone of them is a discovery or , more often, a painful search. It's not the OS or what it does. It's a computer. It does the same thing the windows systems do. It's simply getting around right now.
    I have no doubt that for a new user everything here is intuitive. I have to unlearn a lot of habits. Lots. It's not like its hard but it certainly just increased the time I have to invest.
    Just editing this post is painful for me right now. Where the heck is the HOME key? Why does the delete key act like the backspace and where is the delete? Not to mention the fact that I keep trying to control-c/control-v when I should be doing the command-c/command-v paradigm and all the function keys are only accessed when using the function button? No wait, that actually makes sense.

    Closing thought(s):

    Function keys. Hmmmmm.

    September 08, 2010

    Essential videos

    Brain swimming

    Just finished the last in the 15 part series of "In-house App Development Essential Videos" that apple had in their development area. About 20 hours of initial immersion into the Mac world. My head is swimming but it certainly is a decent start.
    My favorite was the one on design for iPhone (#13 in the series) named "iPhone User Interface Design". Lots of juicy concepts and things to think about.

    REFS:

    Apple Developer Center

    Closing thought(s):

    Just look for the "Getting Started Videos"

    September 04, 2010

    Apple Developer Library

    Might be the FIRST place to look

    I'm expecting the things in this version of C to be at least a little different. Probably in the implementation  but for sure in the memory management area. So this is my list of things to read in order to flush out what I don't know - as a starting point.
    These are Apple Developer deliverables so you will need to be signed up to access them.

    REFS:

    Minimum Read
    Apple Developer Objects
    Apple Object Oriented Programming with Objective C
    Apple Developer Objective C
    The library at large ...

    September 03, 2010

    Wait wait wait

    The hardest part

    Computers won't be here until next Thursday. Serious bummer as I had hoped to get some "hands-on" over the long weekend. Not sure if its the waiting or the reading about it and not being able to do anything to solidify it.
    If I knew I could get away with it I'd buy one at Fry's Electronics and return it when the one from work came in.
    Bah!

    September 02, 2010

    More free education

    From Apple

    Here are Apple's technical sessions fro WWDC this year. Just use your Apple developer account to get in. Play it on your phone, mac, or iTunes if your still stuck in windows.

    REFS:

    Apple WWDC 2010

    Closing thought(s):

    Wonder what WWDC stands for?

    September 01, 2010

    Free iPhone Development

    Lots of free courses on iTunes

    I always avoided letting iTunes into my windows world. When they gave me an iPhone 4 for this development effort, I needed it so that I could enable it.
    Since then, I have been finding more and more great stuff to use, the latest all the free education from top Universities. Today I found an iPhone course and I am looking very much forward to getting that computer to do the exercises.

    REFS:

    iTunes at Stanford

    Closing thought(s):

    I just started it but it looks really great!