The Critorist Tests Out iWeb: October 3, 2006

The first (and worst) in a series of unpublished blog entries dredged up from 2006.

This is all very nice and pretty. But how the hell do I, you know, stick code in here? I suppose I’d have to open it up in a program actually designed for code, but from what I saw of Dreamweaver, you could switch back and forth between design and code easily enough.

I should probably revisit iWeb sometime after iCloud comes out. If there's an iPad version.

Bananas have a great UI. It's like it was...
designed.

I suppose it’s worth commenting on working on the Mac in general. Obviously, it’s going to take some getting used to. The five (count ‘em, five) different, what the hell do you call ‘em, modifying keys - like Ctrl - are, well, confusing. All a matter of practice, I suppose. And if I can do much more with the keyboard, I can work faster. My main concern is whether the scheme makes sense - do I need to learn a whole new set of command keys for every damned application? That’d be a huge problem.

In retrospect, Windows had 4 - ctrl, alt, shift, windows. I can hardly remember what it was like to be an iVirgin.

Haven’t messed with iTunes yet. Briefly looked at iPhoto, if only to import my photos - now I need to figure out how to use it to organize things well. On my PC, it was pretty well organized into folders, but on a mac, the emphasis is on metadata - tags attached directly to the file. I was using the folders as a way to achieve the same result.

I still feel like my workflow with iPhoto could be much better.

Photo Booth is amusing. Frankly, it’s a toy, but it’s still pretty cool.

All I’ve really used this computer for so far, when you get right down to it, is browsing the web and IM. My excuse is that I’ve only had it a week and consequently not spent much time really digging in.

But I got the Japanese input set up. Works pretty similarly to Windows. でも、マックに全部がユニコード使える。 Doesn’t seem to be a key combo to switch back and forth quickly, tho, which pisses me off.

"Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair."

I haven't bothered pointing out the glaring inaccuracies. Revisiting my first impressions of Mac OS is pretty embarrassing.

Hopefully five years from now I'll have progressed as much as I have from 2006.