Mac Help is Great in OS X Leopard

Tech Interviews The Choice is Windows XP over Windows Vista Free Bitmap to Vector Graphics Software How to Make a Cool Windows Vista ScreensaverMac Help is Great in OS X LeopardFree Disk Partition Tool Chris Plays Santa and Gives away an LED Keyboard Apple Trusts Users more than Microsoft? Is Apple?s .Mac for OS X Worth it? Why a Mac Does not Need a Second Mouse Button

Drag the “Mac OS X Install DVD” to the “Source” field. install2.jpg. and the formated partition on your USB drive…Mac Help is Great in OS X Leopard

It’s not the same as search if that was the case it wouldn’t exist since there was spotlight.

that makes me say “wow” as opposed to the other latest OS. great vid chris

Apple Fanboy… Vista has this function, duah its called search. I dont see anything in Lepord that would be usefull over vista. Vista has that new sleek look, where lepord kinda looks old… But on another note, Vista isnt my favorite, I stick with XP with a vista Transformation pack.

I agree, although I prefer windowblinds 6 to the transformation pack

and rocketdock, just found it off of a pirillo vid and loooooooove it!

WOW. Nice

Love the hand gesturing in your videos, when it’s in front of your screen. Makes me laugh every time!! ha! :P

you think i might be able to install leopard in my winxp computer?? :[ probably not……….

It’s not the same as search if that was the case it wouldn’t exist since there was spotlight.

so proud your showing it to them!

that makes me say “wow” as opposed to the other latest OS. great vid chris

1 word…
WOW!
I didn’t think leopard would be that good…

Great video. Great feature!

I need Leopard, its the new crack for geeks.

Nice, but did you ever Click the Start Button (Windows Key) and type Firewall in Vista?

Same thing happens… Two options, default takes you directly to the Firewall settings page and tab.

So in Vista you can type [(Windows Key) firewall (Press Enter)]. Firewall options appear.

It probably wouldn’t hurt for you take a minute and try some of the cool features you like about Leopard on Vista, especially before making videos proclaiming these features are unique to OS X.

This reminds me of the MacWorld review of OS X that goes on about Time Machine and then says Vista doesn’t have any comparable feature and starts mixing up terms like Shadow Copy and Volume Shadow Copy (which is the snapshot copy-on-write feature of NTFS), when in fact Vista not only has volume level document and folder versions, which Leopard does not, but it is also integrated into the same ‘Previous Versions’ UI and will display a complete history of the folder and documents that are also present on your external backups, the latter being just like Time Machine.

As for finding things in the menus, check out Office 2007 or any installed Vista Application, again you will find the same information, just not with the dancing arrow.

As a UI theorist, I understand the reason Microsoft is moving away from the ‘Menu’ UI paradigm. It is an antiquated UI concept.

If you have to dig through menus and ‘remember’ options from the menus, it is equivalent to memorizing word lists, and that is counter intuitive to the whole ‘ease of use’ that a GUI is capable of offering. Office 2007 and the removal of menus in Vista are a testament to this layer of thinking, and is the right direction a modern GUI should be going.

Good Luck, and thanks for all the great technical information you provide to users…

so proud your showing it to them!

Good thing, but that arrow was… ugly! Also, I do not think this works on all programs.

1 word…
WOW!
I didn’t think leopard would be that good…

Good thing, but that arrow was… ugly! Also, I do not think this works on all programs.

I agree with TheNetAvenger… Windows has these features to… they are not unique to OS X. Windows doesn’t have time machine.. so the average user would be confused how to restore a previous file version but it does do something similar if not identical to time machine with the combination of things like Shadow Copy, System Restore, etc. Its… Microsoft isn’t good at making things “pretty” they have no taste in that area. In terms of functionality I would say they are close to par with OS X. We don’t have the flashing arrow though…. I wish we had that… *sarcasm*

Good stuff

PLEEEEASE DONT READ THIS,PLEEEEASE

If you do not copy and paste this onto 10 videos your mom will die in 4 hours

Good stuff

mind you VISTA doesnt work all the time.
I typed in so many things EVEN in the same folder and it cant find it, or find it correctly. I’ve seen the Leopard do it, and find it easily. So really… Vista… not all great. And i have a vista Smacks head.

I bought Leopard but find the help lacking in ways. Yesterday I plugged in an external hard drive I wanted to use for Time Machine. It took me a bit to realize I had to format it to work but once I found the disk utility and selected erase I thought it would be easy. Then I was presented with 5 options on the format. What is journaling, I thought. I know, I’ll use the new help feature. “journaling”…… no results. “format options”…..nada. Thankfully I remembered I bought a Tiger Missing Manual book last year and pulled it out and found an explanation of the formatting options. Not a great explanation, but at least I had a degree of confidence in which option to select.

I tried making a switch from Windows to Mac last year. My iMac is now my wife’s computer, but I’m giving Leopard a second chance. I was hoping Leopard would fix a few issues like sharing easier with Windows (nope), and not dropping a connection to a NAS drive with every reboot (still dreaming). I like it, and the hardware is so nice that next time I upgrade my own XP machine I’ll buy a shiny new iMac to run Windows at least, but making a total switch is really tough. One other thing I hate about the Mac system is you can’t do anything in a dialog box. Ex. I open Garage band and before I’ve even started getting creative I have to name the file. So I name it “test1″. I start getting creative and think like a windows user I’ll do a save as and in the dialog box after saving the new file I’ll save as again and just click and delete the file. Nope. No actions inside a dialog box. Can’t rename, delete, copy/paste. If there’s a shell util that makes this work on a Mac someone please post it. I really do want to use my Mac, I just find so many things less functional than on my Windows machine (like only being able to resize from the bottom right corner meaning I have to drag boxes to the top and left if I’m already too close to the bottom right–I mean come on Apple, how about dragging from any edge???).

Oak

This is the DEFINITION of context sensitive help! This is what help on a computer should have been from the beginning.

This is the DEFINITION of context sensitive help! This is what help on a computer should have been from the beginning.

Vista fails to bring the WOWness out from PC users. It’s apparent that Apple’s Leopard has stolen the WOW factor hehe.

Cool video.

great this is really helpful

WOW! mac os x is the easiest operating system out there. Whoever dont believe jst hasnt given time to sit and use mac os x for simply 10min. Note: mac os is a different os from windows so ONE SHOULD REALIZE THAT.

I take this as granted already… I’ve been using Mac for a year now and going back to windows gives me goosebumps

( On Vista, it’s just as easy, Click start and type in Firewall, and it’s right there -_- )

I wish i can get a mac but i need windows to play my favorite games.

i want a mac…should i sell this (has vista crap) for a mac?

It works on all apple designed programs and if anyone wanted to incorporate it into their own, im sure there is a way. He has everything set the the “graphite” option. Otherwise, the arrow would be a medium shade of blue.

Use bootcamp if you want a Mac, and you want to play games. Check apple’s site for prices. Unless you want to run like Crysis or something, you would most likely make out good with an iMac. It runs WoW at around 60 frames under windows on very good settings.

Yeah an just did that, I’m happy :D

I now ipen folders files and programs using spotlight now its great!

dude all macs come with boot camp, YOU CAN RUN YOUR WINDOWS GAMES IN A MAC!! macs can play games Ok every one??

yes use boot camp. so basically u can have a sexy gaming machine, thats uber-thin

u can run crysis, check at the youtube videos on it:P just goes to show what a Mac is capable of these days

I stand corrected! wow, that’s insane, an iMac running Crysis, although it only gets 30-40 frames, that isn’t half bad.

this makes me want a mac even more!!!