A stuttering march of progress
Open letter to anyone who isn't as dumb as me:
Blargh. I'm on a Mac at the moment (as I will be for the rest of eternity, it seems, at my new job, in my very own office. Which I have now. An office, with a door), and I want to blog a few of my recent writings, but I can't figure out how to cut and paste from Word into the Mac version of Firefox.
Drop-down menu doesn't work. open-apple C, open-apple P doesn't work. Dragging the text onto the little Firefox icon sure as hell doesn't work (using some version of OS 10 . . . 10.3.9 as it were).
Mac people: how do you make this work? Am I going to have to use another browser? What is the name of that thing? Isn't it Safari or something? What does the Icon look like?
This is going to be a long, steep ascent to the world of so-called user-friendliness. Quote, unquote.
For your troubles you'll get like 20 new reviews of various things, including several new albums, Broken Flowers, Stealth, 40-Year-Old Virgin, and other things. I'll also link to the article which has, by now, made me many country music enemies. In a town filled with Nashville-ophiles, that's not good.
Yours with more questions than answers,
Luke Baumgarten
Staff Writer
Pacific Northwest Inlander
posted by Luke @ 11:17 AM
13 comments
13 Comments:
As far as I know, and I don't know very much but I beat Mike to this entry, Firefox has nothing to do with anything. You should consider yourself lucky that your office has Macs - you'll be an expert in 2 days and you'll never want to go back to that awful Win-thingy.
Paste is Command (the apple) + V. Don't ask me why. Copy is still C. And the right click works exactly the same as in Windows - if you only have one mouse button, hold down Control when you click.
Safari is the compass, and it's a very good browser, and the only one that will correctly render well-written webpages (go to Mike's site in Safari - it looks better).
Don't worry, pretty soon you'll be putting one of those cute little apple stickers on your car. Welcome to the club.
And congratulations on the job!
Ah, crap, I meant Command + V . . . that doesn't work though. . .
I'll try safari, thanks.
I actually just got TWO of those apple stickers with my iPod, so maybe you're right . . . probably not though
Luke. I sent you an email.
The polite thing to do would be to respond to the email. It is obvious you are having problems figuring this out, so I will help.
Push the "Reply" button or Control + R at the same time. Type your phone number in the message and push "Send" or Control + Enter.
I don't know anything about mac's as Im having major issues with my stupid computer...it's all beyond me. but glad the job is going well.
-hope the ipod is working out well too. i wanted to keep those stickers...oh well, life will continue on.
Good luck working the mac. I've never even sat down at one for anything other than playing a game. I'd be as lost as you I'm afraid.
I'm looking forward to hearing more about your doings from your new place of employment, I really am. My breath is baited, and the pins and needles are securely fastened to my ass.
Oh, and it's good to piss off country music fans. It's always a good laugh.
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Heh.. apparantly I'm as dumb as you.
Hmm ... I'm about as skeptical as Brian about your techno-trouble. Could you further qualify this statement that the drop-down menu doesn't work? That's strange. Are all of the options just grayed-out, or will the menu not actually drop at all?
On the other hand, everything that sucks about Word on a PC sucks worse on a Mac, and the Mac version has a few of its own quirks that make it an even more negative experience. In fact, if I had to say that Mac Word fellated any particular barnyard animal, I'd go with 'donkey'. Yes, Word on the Mac sucks donkey cock, as does every other Office program. Mac's native Office suites mostly work well (and aren't ugly and tiny like, say Word or Excel), but aren't widely used.
I'm also surprised that Cmd+C Cmd+V didn't work, or even just dragging the text from window to window (not surprisingly, the text actually has to be dragged from one text field to the other, and not onto the icon -- but that's probably what you meant).
Crazy. From literally the day Macs came out over 20 years ago I was a Mac user and rock bottom expert-to-call if you had an issue. However, my life is a mirror image to yours. About seven years ago I had to switch to a PC for my business systems. Sadly, the last time I used a Mac was about three years ago and I hardly remember the experience. This is a long-winded way of saying I wish I could help. Sorry!
Any way to export or paste your work into a text editor and then move it to your browser interface that way??? You'd just have to reformat your work in blogger I think.
And Congratulations Mr. Staff Writer Guy.
Don
i'm inclined to agree with Aleah. It's Monday now and you're probably already acclimated to your Macintosh.
As far as pissing off Nashville fans; fuck 'em. "Robert Altman's classic" my ass.
Just kidding. i read the article and i don't think you have much to worry about. For now. You WILL piss off country fans in a big way eventually, though.
-ben
If neither your drop-down menu nor your command key works, call tech support... there's not an unlimited # of ways to do any given thing, and you need all of them to function.
And you should probably stick with Safari, as the other sorts of browsers only have slipshod secondary versions for the Mac.
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