User:Sebastianlewis

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Current Work

  • List of Mac Software — adding to the list, cleaning up.
  • Fink — writing a guide on getting, installing, and using Fink (delayed because I have to retrace some of my steps and figure a few other things out first, that's OK though, there's more than enough work on the Guides already)
  • MacPorts — planning on writing another guide for MacPorts (probably before I write the Fink one)

Guides cleanup, there's basically no Quality Control in place and there's a lack of volunteers to keep articles up to date so I'm going to write a few things about what I think some general guidelines for the Guides might be, try to recruit a few people to edit guides (if I can, I can't make promises there), and try to work with the regulars (and Macrumors SysAdmins) to try and improve the Guides. If All goes well, it'll result in something that anybody in the Mac community can use, even if they aren't part of the "Macrumors Community" which of course, is a good thing. Yes that's my ultimate ulterior motive, if you think less of me for it, well bully for you.

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Average User

The things that annoy us

The official dogma of Mac users is that Apple should only focus on the "average user" and anybody who says otherwise is a non-believer in the Cult of Mac, it's annoying. My stance on it is this: make computers usable for EVERYONE, not just the so called "average user" that somehow doesn't know how to use a computer at all, probably shouldn't be near the power button of any computer, and would most likely be better off forgetting that computers exist. That includes power users and people who wish to configure their computers exactly to their liking, this is extremely difficult when your OS vendor isn't offering the APIs in their system software to change much of anything, instead forcing the user to rely on 3rd party software or just leave the platform. Both are of course very real options, but it's frustrating when that OS vendor is also making the best hardware and software systems and the user actually likes the platform, just not a few things about it that either make no sense or are just lacking. That leaves option C, make your own OS which is of course costly and time consuming.

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Suggested Reading

Blogs

Books

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Suggested Viewing

Digital Ethnography Project

Google Tech Talks

TED Talks

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