uninstalling mac apps

[Dave G]

me too

[$cirisme]

me too

can you believe all this time i kept telling her to buy one? and she finally did, hated it, now loves it.

[Dave G]

can you believe all this time i kept telling her to buy one? and she finally did, hated it, now loves it.

My sister buys pc components for a health science center, and she absolutely refuses to talk to me about macs. Like having an unhacked computer is a bad thing.
Probably the biggest problem I had was the Mac being touted as so user friendly it was like a child's version of a "real" computer.
I actually really like it, I'm just impatient with learning the essentials. I would rather go about cluttering my hard drive with programs.
Which reminds me...the downloads that are on your desktop, do you put those in a file, or what?

[$cirisme]

You can drag those programs to the Applications folder. (though there is no rule to do this, you can run them off your desktop if you like)

[Dave G]

how do you do stacks?

[$cirisme]

Stacks is a new feature coming in November with the new release.

[Dee Dee Warren]

Cir beat me to it.

[Dee Dee Warren]

Dave how are you doing?

[Dave G]

sorry...my meds keep me asleep into the afternoon

[Dave G]

hmm....when I drag and drop apps to the app folder, why does the app stay on my desktop?

[Dee Dee Warren]

Dragging and dropping doesn't move files like it does in Windows, it copies them. I don't know what key to hit to move them. I just drag them to the trash when I am sure I am done with them.

[Dave G]

Then I have to keep Firefox on my desktop because I don't want to trash it? (Actually, that isn't different than windows, I don't know why I expected macs to be any different.)

[Dee Dee Warren]

No, once it is copied to the applications folder, you delete it from your desktop.

[Dave G]

AHHA! Thanks, that is way cool DDW.

[Dave G]

I'm checking out the tips and tricks website, and I've learned how to screen capture. Man, the Tiger OS has voiceover commands! This is fun.