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Vox Pop: What's your "Mac Whine?"

Submitted by Merlin on February 28, 2007 - 3:00am.

We’ve started a new feature over on MacBreak Weekly that I really hope becomes a regular thing: “_Mac Whines_!”

Yeah, sure, I’m an unapologetic Apple fanboy (I, mean duh), but some stuff about my Mac experience makes me crazy. Have you got a beef with your Mac or OS X you want to shout from the shiny counter of the “Genius” Bar? Yeah, me too.

I’ll open with:

  • inexplicable iCal “snooze” options (per MBW 30 – which, incidentally, may also be my favorite MacBreak Weekly to date)
  • near-hangs whenever a mounted network volume is no longer available
  • no way to (temporarily) enable password-free user switching
  • The Finder. The goddamned Finder.

What’s your Mac Whine?

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@Michael Toy's whine "Fix casual...

Submitted by Belle Watley (not verified) on March 1, 2007 - 11:30pm.

@Michael Toy’s whine “Fix casual networking. Still requires too much smarts for two random people with their macs next to each other to trade data.”

There are several apps for this: 1. Xcaramba (yet another Java monstrosity) 2. DropCopy (see this LifeHacker write-up - http://tinyurl.com/2fd23d ) 3. Go2 ( http://www.insist.nl/go2/index.html )

By the way, do any of you ever check the ‘net for new software? Most of your whines seem easily solved.