Mac Annoyances
by John Rizzo

The unconfirmed error reports are from readers.  They have not yet been 
approved or disproved by the author or editor and represent solely the
opinion of the reader.

Here's a key to the markup:
        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification

This page was updated March 26, 2007.


UNCONFIRMED  errors and comments from readers: 

[X]  5th paragraph - post good annoyances;
As far as I can tell, the #1 annoyance which has not even been discussed is OSX just
allowing the mouse/cursor to stop working unexplainably for several seconds leaving
the user to just jiggle the mouse waiting to get the machines attention again.

I have a dual processor G5 and cannot think of one thing that an operating system
does that is more basic than accepting input from the user. To drop mouse x/y
coordinates and not write them to the screen is a travesty.



{9}  "cool keyboard commands" box;
command-A "selects all", not as stated in book (Apple doc 75459 lists it as "select
all" also)

option-command-F is incorrect for selecting Search but command-F works.