[Closed] Just accquired a Mac

Have you tried turning it off, then turning it back on again?

I thought Macs didn't need that?

They don't. At least they don't when anyone else other than you is involved

Jus' 'sayin

Oh... and you owe Binners IT Support Ltd £300 for that

Ok so here's something. When I use Cmd+Space to bring up the spotlight search thingy for an app, I have to type in exactly the name of the app, do I? In Windows I can type in for example 'Word' or 'Wo' and it finds Microsoft Word. Seems that in Sierra I have to start typing the exact name i.e. 'Microsoft Wo'.

That correct?

Nope, molgrips. it does a smart search.

Do you find you have problems with shoe-laces, doors, bottle openers and other non-windows based stuff you encounter Molls? Or is this purely a Mac-related thing? 😉

When I type wo I get some folder.. when I type in word I get normal.dotm. That's *so* intuitive, I wonder why Microsoft haven't thought of it? 🙂

Here's what 'Sherlock' (for all us older users) gives when I type wo
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I'm guessing you've remapped your keyboard to give non-standard output.

Of course I haven't. But I don't get that. Not a problem to type extra - just wondering what its behaviour is meant to be.

Could be that your disk isn't fully indexed yet if you nuked and re-installed. It can take a few days even with it running with your login-active.

Of course I haven't.

Of course you haven't what?

As a follow up it can be a bit slow to react while indexing if you've lots of music and documents to catalogue.

Maybe because I haven't used word much yet?

Unlikely, as I use word very rarely. The last time was over a month ago.

So here's another one. On Windows, if I get a facebook message it pings on all three of my devices (computer and two phones). Then when I respond on one of them for a period of time it only notifies me on the device I've actually used to reply.

That doesn't seem to happen on the Mac? I am getting ping spammed constantly. Something to do with notifications being managed centrally on MacOS perhaps...?

Anyone else get this, or not?

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You don't need God to make it stop. You can make it stop. Just don't open the thread. Do us all a favour.

I think we need a thread where binners is forced to work on a pc for a week! 😆

if I get a facebook message it pings on all three of my devices (computer and two phones)

That doesn't seem to happen on the Mac? I am getting ping spammed constantly.

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Weird. The default behaviour should be for it only to notify you on whatever MacOS/iOS device you're currently using - in your case either your Mac or one of your two iPhones. No idea why that isn't working properly.

I haven't got iPhones, they are Android - and I'm not using iMessage either..... This may be the problem I suspect.

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Fonts still look crap on an HD screen.

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Not got any colouring in to do?

Or is all that white space in your pics what's fashionable these days? 🙂