Comments for Brad Choate, Mac User tag:bradchoate.com,2007://4- 2005-08-19T09:44:51Z The man, the legend. Movable Type -en-trunk--20070910 tag:bradchoate.com,2002://4.1283-comment:480 Comment from mini-d on 2002-12-18 mini-d http://www.minid.net If you need an addiotional mouse button just upgrade to a 2 or 3 buttons mouse... my mom can use a mac without learning wich button should press... 1 buttom rules! PD: i use a 5 mouse buttom on my mac... ]]> 2002-12-18T14:51:40Z tag:bradchoate.com,2002://4.1283-comment:481 Comment from Brad Choate on 2002-12-18 Brad Choate http://www.bradchoate.com/ Ah yes -- I discovered soon after my post that there were Mac drivers available from Microsoft which solved the problem. Now I have 5 buttons too. But the question still remains -- why doesn't Apple ship Macs with more capable mice?]]> 2002-12-18T19:10:12Z tag:bradchoate.com,2002://4.1283-comment:482 Comment from Patrick Berry on 2002-12-18 Patrick Berry http://www.patandkat.com/pat/weblog/
  • Chimera (Mozilla minus a lot of suck) http://www.mozilla.org/projects/chimera/
  • NetNewsWire Lite (RSS reader) http://www.ranchero.com/software/netnewswire/
  • iPulse (top meets eye candy) http://www.iconfactory.com/ip_home.asp
  • TigerLaunch (easy program launcher) http://www.ranchero.com/software/
  • Searchling (because I can't spell) http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mthole/searchling/
  • BBEdit (I think of it as emacs for Mac, even though there is an emacs...oh you know what I mean!) http://web.barebones.com/
  • Transmit (s/ftp client) http://www.panic.com/transmit/
  • fink (install tons of *nix packages in a snap) http://fink.sourceforge.net/
    • ]]>     2002-12-18T19:20:17Z     tag:bradchoate.com,2002://4.1283-comment:483 Comment from Mark on 2002-12-18 Mark http://diveintomark.org/ Welcome to the light side of the force.]]> 2002-12-18T19:23:12Z tag:bradchoate.com,2002://4.1283-comment:484 Comment from Patrick Berry on 2002-12-18 Patrick Berry http://www.patandkat.com/pat/weblog/ As far as the mouse thing goes, it's pretty much excepted fact that Jobs will probably never ship a multi-button mouse. He wants them to come out of the box and be "easy to use." I know that is a very relative term, but it's what they are going with. They also know that the people who don't want a one button mouse will either already have a two button mouse or buy the 24-sided 4D scroll mouse ;-)

    I'm trying to think of a real world analogy, and I think that car stereos are pretty close. Sure you can have a stock CD-player, but in most models the speakers will suck or whatever. The point being is that you will probably replace some of the stock parts with stuff that you know you want.

    But then that leaves the question why doesn't apple offer it as a BTO option at the store? Back to point one. They have data that says most of the people will be fine with a one button mouse and there is no compelling reason to switch, no pun intended. It may sound dumb abnd pig-headed to those of us who have mastered the manuver of right-clicking, but it is the way it is.

    ]]>     2002-12-18T19:31:50Z     tag:bradchoate.com,2002://4.1283-comment:485 Comment from Mark on 2002-12-18 Mark http://diveintomark.org/ While we're on the subject:

    LaunchBar (amazing keyboard-based program launcher) http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/
    DragThing (amazing icon-based program launcher and switcher) http://www.dragthing.com/
    CandyBar (fun icon twiddler) http://www.iconfactory.com/cb_home.asp

    And no Mac geek should be without Mac OS X Hints - http://www.macosxhints.com/ .. Great stuff every day.

    ]]>     2002-12-18T19:36:31Z     tag:bradchoate.com,2002://4.1283-comment:487 Comment from milbertus on 2002-12-18 milbertus http://www.milbertus.com Hey, at least your mouse isn't one of those annoying hockey-puck mice they shipped with the original iMacs. ;)]]> 2002-12-19T05:33:27Z tag:bradchoate.com,2002://4.1283-comment:488 Comment from Damelon Kimbrough on 2002-12-19 Damelon Kimbrough http://www.gnawing.com I will second the recommendations for LaunchBar and BBEdit. I am somewhat of a minimalist about what I have on my system and both of those programs are very functional and stable. As for a ftp, I use rbrowser (www.rbrowser.com). rbrowser offers both a free and commercial version and while I am planning to purchase the commercial version, the free version works better than any of the other options in the OS X graphical interface category. And I mentioned this in my weblog a few days ago, but the best utility for finding Macintosh (and probably PC) software on the internet is: www.versiontracker.com]]> 2002-12-19T09:31:04Z tag:bradchoate.com,2002://4.1283-comment:507 Comment from lowmagnet on 2002-12-24 lowmagnet http://lowmag.net It's about time!

    I second Chimera, except it sometimes fails andcrashes on flash ads. I usually keep ie up for that reason. However, I just know not to visit the new york times and most of the geocities pages with it. Bad code! Bad bad code!

    Welcome to Macintosh though!

    I still have my one button Pro Mouse, and I use it daily. It's nice because I can swap it easily for my left-handed friends. That is why it has one button, so it can be used ambidexterously.

    ]]>     2002-12-24T18:07:44Z     tag:bradchoate.com,2002://4.1283-comment:621 Comment from Phong Huynh on 2003-01-26 Phong Huynh http://www.phonghuynh.com I would like to express what I feel is the absolute and just plain cool apps with a lot of them repeats form previous comments. I cannot live without LaunchBar (www.obdev.at), BBEdit Lite (www.bbedit.com), and Transmit (www.panic.com). As for the other apps, I would reccomend Speed Download (www.yazsoft.com, note: it actually works, and it works great), TypeSet (www.vizspring.com) and remember to download Apple's Safari (If you have Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar). Welcome New Mac User! Oh yeah by the way, as of now (this comment), for the mouse situation, you should read this on deal news (http://dealnews.com/articles/46860.html). Great price on Microsoft mice!

    -Phong

    ]]>     2003-01-26T11:17:21Z     tag:bradchoate.com,2002://4.1283-comment:781 Comment from Pete on 2003-02-22 Pete http://rasterweb.net/raster/ My kids do fine with the one button mouse. I think two or more buttons and a scroll wheel might confuse my 4 year old. ;)]]> 2003-02-23T05:24:53Z