Mice and stuff
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ksmithAnnoyed 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.
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.
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Re: Right clicking on a Mac
Date: 2004-04-07 10:20 am (UTC)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
Date: 2004-04-07 10:24 am (UTC)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
Date: 2004-04-07 11:59 am (UTC)Re: Right clicking on a Mac
Date: 2004-04-07 06:03 pm (UTC)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
Date: 2004-04-08 06:34 am (UTC)I'll take a look at the web site.
Re: Right clicking on a Mac
Date: 2004-04-08 08:57 am (UTC)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
Date: 2004-04-08 01:29 pm (UTC)If only you could get payed to do it.
Re: Right clicking on a Mac
Date: 2004-04-08 06:41 am (UTC)Right clicking won't work here.
Re: Right clicking on a Mac
Date: 2004-04-08 08:58 am (UTC)Thanks for checking it out.
Re: Right clicking on a Mac
Date: 2004-04-08 01:30 pm (UTC)Happy to help whenever I can.