Mice and stuff

[ksmith]

Annoyed that it's already so late in the evening.

My own fault, I guess. It was such a nice evening that I spent a couple of hours outside with the pups, doing yardwork while they played/lounged around on the lawn/looked for things to roll in/cropped grass like miniature horses.

It's a Dog's Life. Really.

So, here I am, with a half-finished entry for my website journal, photos that have been loaded but not labeled and sent to my webmistress, income taxes that have been done but not checked, a messy desk, and cluttered bookcases.

Still listening to "Starfish" I tend to run CDs into the ground until I can't listen to them anymore.

What's funny is that I have had this CD for years, but only listened to one track, "Under the Milky Way" The other day I just let it go, and found that there are many good tracks to be heard. In fact, I like the whole CD.

This has happened to me before. If I hear a song that I like on the radio, I have to hunt through my CDs to make sure I don't already own it. Sad, but true.

Anyway, regarding the title of this post, I finally got around to buying a wireless mouse for my iBook. I have been trying to hunt down icons for this LJ, and found several sites that are giving them away. But I can't seem to be able to copy/save the icons without the good ol' right-click option. Nothing I do works.

So I will wait a week or so for my mouse, then mix up the iconage a little bit.

Comments

Re: Right clicking on a Mac

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I confess I don't already know. After I get a chance to look at the manual tonight, I will try it, although the manual doesn't contain everything. One thing that was hanging me up is the lack of a PC-type Delete key, with the Mac Delete key acting like the PC Backspace key and messing me up. Someone told me that Fn-Del (or is it Cntrl-Del) works like Backspace, which is indeed the case, but I couldn't find that in the manual.

Is the Command key the one with the little roseate on it?

I confess I have trouble with keyboard commands. Some folks are keyboarders and others are mousers--I'm a mouser. If the new mouse doesn't allow me right-click capability, it's going to take me a while to adjust.

Re: Right clicking on a Mac

[zara-elis.livejournal.com]

Yes, the command key is also called the apple key (because it has an apple on it). It also has the roseate, which I have heard called the squiggle and which reminds me of a celtic knot.

You can find a lot of shortcuts in your Mac Help menu on your computer, but there are also several listed on the web. I've attached a couple of links below.

You can also program your function keys (I'm assuming that you have f1-f12) on your keyboard to perform often used tasks, such as right clicking and PC delete. You should be able to find out how to program the function keys in your manual or in Mac Help. It's not difficult, I've just never had need to use it.

Common control key commands when in an application are command-q to quit the application, command-s to save the application, I don't remember the save-as command but it is in the File menu of the application. Command-p to print. And there is a built in screen snapshot command that I can't remember right now (it's in Mac Help).

In word it is helpful to know, if you don't already, command-e to center text, command-l to left orient text, and, of course, command-r takes you to the right side. command-b for to turn bold on or off, command-u to turn underline on or off, and command-i to turn italics on or off. You probably already know these though, well at least the center, left and underline.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459


http://www.davespicks.com/writing/programming/mackeys.html

http://www.macoptions.com/os85/shortcuts.html

Re: Right clicking on a Mac

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the links!

FWIW, I did try the Command-click last night to try to copy/paste one of the icons--it didn't work. Could have been doing something wrong, I guess.

Re: Right clicking on a Mac

[zara-elis.livejournal.com]

I can't access from work, but if you tell me where you were trying to get the icons from, and how, I would be happy to try from home.

Re: Right clicking on a Mac

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Well, there's this site:

http://www.mrmonkeybottoms.com/live_journal_icons.htm

I like two of the Willow icons at the end of the second row--"I Tried To Destroy The World" and "Leader of the Dork Patrol."

I'll collect Spike-cons when I figure out how to cut/paste.

So pathetic.

Kris

Re: Right clicking on a Mac

[zara-elis.livejournal.com]

I'm guessing you found the command-c and command-v for copy and paste.

I'll take a look at the web site.

Re: Right clicking on a Mac

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Nope--in the case of the Spike/shoes pics, I sized down photos in iPhoto. Did those myself. Setting them up to use as icons went faster than the fruitless fiddling on the icons page.

Of course, this is an excuse to take more picstures, or hunt the 'net for cool images of James Marsden, Rupert Everett, Cary Elwes, and the like.

Now *that's* what I call drudgery.

Re: Right clicking on a Mac

[zara-elis.livejournal.com]

Ach! Such hard labor.

If only you could get payed to do it.

Re: Right clicking on a Mac

[zara-elis.livejournal.com]

All I had to do to get these icons onto my desktop was click on the icon (hold the mouse button down) and drag them to my desktop.

Right clicking won't work here.

Re: Right clicking on a Mac

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

No ordering the mouse wasn't a waste. Good.

Thanks for checking it out.

Re: Right clicking on a Mac

[zara-elis.livejournal.com]

No problem.

Happy to help whenever I can.