Question #6 – What would you like to see in the next Mac OS X?


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What would you like to see in the next Mac OS X?

This is a tricky one! Mac OS X Snow Leopard is an extremely powerful system – but everybody always finds a minor fault or something that they’d simply like to see improved. For me, I’d like to see a menu for easy customization of the built-in screen capture (screen shot) tool, such as being able to choose default names, background colors, whether the captured image should have a shadow and so on. It is all possible to do but only via lines of (complicated) code that I don’t understand pasted into the Terminal window!

So you know what I want – what would you like to see in the next version of Mac OS X?



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  • Benjamin Reid : Visit Benjamin Reid's website & twitter

    Posted at 14:40 on 1/2/10

    This is a real tough one. I’ve got lots of 3rd party app’s that could possibly be replaced by a software update.

    CoverSutra could be an update to iTunes. A more stable Expos&eacture;.

  • Liam Maskell : Visit Liam Maskell's website & twitter

    Posted at 18:27 on 1/2/10

    Being a windows 7 junkie before I moved to the Mac, the one thing I really miss is the ability to press start left or right, and the window aligns to the right or left of the screen. It’s amazing when comparing things!

  • Alex Mcvitie : Visit Alex Mcvitie's website & twitter

    Posted at 18:44 on 1/2/10

    I agree with Liam about window manipulation! something like that would be great if it was built in that is … there are third party tools for it however, what about some sort of click and drag function that shows you the dimention of the selection ?

  • Travis Ulrich : Visit Travis Ulrich's website & twitter

    Posted at 21:47 on 8/2/10

    I think Apple could really benefit from creating their own sort of “Quicksilver” for Mac OS X using their awesome Search function.

    Quicksilver isn’t for most people because it has a tiny bit of a learning curve, something Apple is good at erasing for people. But it allows you to access things in mere seconds. I would think this is a feature that Apple would love to brag about.

  • vabhe

    Posted at 12:27 on 23/3/10

    alt+click in every part of a window to grab ‘n move it (linux-compiz style)

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