!stop press! - bloodline buys a Powerbook G4

[Karlos]

bloodline wrote:

Seriously for a second, how does one get application to show up on the desktop in MacOSX... lets say, the application disapears for some reason, then when you click on the icon to open it up again, the title bar changes to your app, but none of the windows open :-?

I get this with firefox on OSX a lot :-D

Typically you can have an application open with no windows presently open or if some are, they may be minimised and languishing around near the trashcan on the dock.

You can also use apple tab in an analogous way to alt tab under windows. If you are using OSX 10.3, you can also sometimes use the expose feature to find windows that have sneakily crept out of sight.

[Karlos]

I don't think the G4 will be that badly underspecced for audio work, provided the software is written to utilise the vector unit for those pesky DSP like jobs.

[Karlos]

itix wrote:

There are 3rd party commodities to fix this annoyment :-)

Do you know of anything that will allow me to change the highlight colour for seleceted text? That is still a major problem for me, changing just the background colour isn't enough :-(

Stupid "think different" design paradigm there. I guess they "think" that if you are colourblind, you have no place using a mac and should stick to some greenscreen 286 ;-)

[Karlos]

Me too. I perceive only one primary colour properly* so I tend to use an "inverse" effect for text highlighting. For the life of me I cannot find out how to make OS-X show highlighted text white on blue!

*hint : see avatar :lol:

[Karlos]

That seems to be common for Red-Green colourblindness (of which I have an extreme form). My brother has a similar problem - red on blue or green causes the same dancing effect. I also get it for strong primary colours against blue, but I don't tend to perceive the non-blue colour - well, it is more complex than that as I shall try to explain.

If I see something colour (that isn't blue/violet), I can usually tell that it is not grey. However I simply cannot tell what colour it is other than it is lighter or darker.

My optician explained it like so. There simply aren't enough R/G receptors to give the old visual cortex enough information to resolve what the colour is, only that it is a colour and not simply grey (some very intense greens do register as different from everything else). As for unsaturated colours, they tend to look greyish.

Hence no need for me to suffer the work of interior designers :lol:

[Karlos]

bloodline wrote:
Is it possible to just install a decent desktop and use it instead of finder?

Heresy! :-x

;-)

[Karlos]

bloodline wrote:

It's worth it just for Logic 7, which with the timing corrector is brilliant!!! ;-)

In the old days we just played instruments tighter :lol:

[Karlos]

mdma wrote:

1.26? :-?

1024MB + 512MB = 1536MB / 1024 = 1.5GB

Think different ;-)

[Karlos]

adz wrote:

mdma wrote:

I have a problem seeing green!

Time for a Colour Blind Test. Sorry, I couldn't resist :-P

Some nice descriptions here

The protanope and deuteranope, on the other hand, can be severely color deficient. The real problem, as a protanope or deuteranope may see it, is there are far too many hue names (color names) used by most people without any obvious basis for using one instead of another. Why call something "orange" when it doesn't look different in any way from something else called green, tan, beige, or any of several other color names?

Agree 100%. Goddam interior designers and their meaningless  'earthy tones' :lol:

I'm feckin proud to be severely Deuteranopic! (almost monochromat...)