The way we work

I am in a Starbucks at the moment trying to read a book that I need to finish by Monday. As usual there a few arty types here with their Macbooks. Not that I have a problem with that, but I always find it interesting to see how other people use their Macs. How do they switch their apps? How do the configure their Finder views? Which browser? How well do they type?

Obviously one thinks that his own strategy is somewhat optimal. Anything to think about other than this book.

It is also one of the nicest days we have had in Vancouver this year. The high is 31 and I’m sure it is close to that now. Which is why I’m inside watching all of that from the relative cool of the coffee shop. Less sweating in here, not that I was spared earlier, but it is definitely a move slowly kind of day. Also I am still not a huge fan of Fedex, and continue to wish that Apple would switch to using UPS.

June 28, 2008

Comments

30 Jun 2008

Victoria

And yet, you failed to provide any illuminating comments and afterthoughts on how this particular fellow was using his macbook, of which you were clearly intrigued enough to initially write about. I was getting curious.

5 Jul 2008

Colin

Yes, that is true, but I was also writing on my Blackberry and brevity was a virtue as far as my thumbs were concerned. I didn't really have any issues with his usage, or at least what I could see of it from afar. I mainly noticed that his finder icons were quite large whereas I tend to keep mine in details view, as I am an information whore. I also noticed that he used Exposé to switch apps a couple of times, and I tend to use the normal application switcher (⌘-⇥). Nothing wrong with his methods (per se) but they were different, that is all.

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