Why do designers prefer to use Mac than PC? What are the advantages of Mac?
As a designer, looking at the Windows UI alone is a visual nightmare. Text-rendering alone is enough to turn off any typography lovers.Utility-wise, I have found quite a few mac apps that are just not replaceable on the Windows. Good examples of these are CSSedit, Coda, Espresso, Textmate, Quicksilver, Alfred, Things, OmniFocus. I can probably go on and on. It is not just about the beautiful UI, it is how it works. The productivity these apps have given me is priceless. Any designer would appreciate "Quick Look".Last but not least, designers love to be visually stimulated and constantly surrounded by beautiful things. Clicking on a beautiful bouncing icon just makes work more pleasurable. Replacing the default OS harddisk icon with a beautiful designed replacement icon is just a small thing that you can do but it means a lot to the designer with his/her own personal, distinctive taste.
What are some good adult ADD hacks? I am always interested in what other Adult ADD folks do to help themselves help their careers and self?
Since ADD/ADHD is different for each person, you have to customize which hacks work best for you. A lot of success with hacking your ADHD depends on how well you know your processing style. The eight processing styles are:Auditory - you need to hear to learnConceptual - you need a global understanding with all pieces in placeKinesthetic - movement helps you focusVisual - you need to see it to learn itVerbal - you need to talk about itTactile - what you touch you rememberEmotional - you need to connect through strong positive emotionIntuitive - you sense information in flashesWhen you know how your brain processes data you can stay focused. For example, if you are a visual processor, you need to see things to remember them. That's me. I remember what I need at the grocery store by leaving out empty boxes (of the items I need to buy). After I see the boxes for a few days, it's in my mind and I remember to buy them. Unfortunately, this leaves a mess in the kitchen when I have a lot of things to buy. If I see it, I remember it.For some people apps don't work, but paper does. People waste a lot of money buying products, apps, and items they don't use because the item didn't align with their processing style. Thanks to technology, there are thousands of apps to help people with ADHD. There are apps for productivity, calendars, time management, blocking out distractions, meditation, alarms, and reminder apps (to name a few). I cannot use any of them. Apps don't work for me.I know people who have had great success with Wacom Spark Bamboo. It's a little pricey but if it keeps you on schedule, productive, and stores all your thoughts, than it's worth $159.95.Peter Shankman gives a great webinar on how to hack into ADHD as a super-power. My personal favorite hack is to eliminate choice whenever possible. Choice is a trap, a distraction that an ADHDer can get lost in. Wear the same type clothes every day like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg. Eat the same foods. Don't get trapped into indecision. Know yourself and what works best for you!
LAPTOP BATTERY: Why do laptop batteries drain even when the laptop is not in use, it's turned off?
First thing’s first, make sure your laptop is ACTUALLY shut down, it could very well being in “Sleep” mode, rather that shut down. Another thing I see quite often is the user will do the usual, Start > Power > Shut Down, but before the shut down process actually begins, they’ve closed the laptop, forcing the laptop to go into sleep mode, rather than shutting down. You’d be surprised as to how often I see this.So make sure you’re actually shutting down. Another thing I ran into myself, was the laptop has a low powered shut down mode. That is to say, it’s a mode between sleep and shut down, but not hibernate. The device looks as if it’s powering down, but it will continue to send power to the USB inputs. At first I thought this wasn’t a big deal as long as nothing was plugged into the USB ports, but as time went on I noticed, power was still being sent to the USB ports even as they were empty. How’d I fix it, went into the Power Settings and options and disabled USB-charging in all modes, except for when the laptop was powered on. Monitored the laptop over the following days and noticed the creeping power decline had stopped. So check those couple of things and see if that helps.
Why is Mac OS X Yosemite (10.10) so buggy?
I also feel frustrated with Yosemite, yep it's so buggy and weird. 1. The Continuity/Handoff feature, it's weird, worked totally difference on my iMac 5k Retina and Mac Pro 2013. I made a clean reinstallation of Yosemite on my Mac Pro, the Handoff didn't work between it and my iPhone 6 Plus, at meantime, it worked well with my iMac. 2. The Dock, Yosemite stores the Launchpad configuration in /var/folders/ but this location is excluded out in Time Machine by default, if you restore your system from a Time Machine backup, you will lost all your Launchpad configurations.3. The iCloud, when I want to turn on the iCloud Keychain, the iCloud Preferences asks me the security code over and over again.4. The extensions, when there is something wrong with Spotlight (mds), you will find the extensions are disappeared in today view.5. The FileVault, it has a bug that will keep suspending state forever. You can not revert it to normal state. 6. The processor_set_tasks() vulnerability in the kernel, attackers can use this bug to read the kernel slide from User Space, this will make OS X kernel ASLR meaningless. TO BE DONE…I thin this is the Apple's fault. They pay all of their attentions to iOS and new hardwares, except OS X. I think I don't need so fast iterations in Operating System which I work with everyday. They need more software engineers, they need work hard with these bugs, at least, please give a fix to those long time opening bugs in Apple Bug Reporter . I need a stable workspace, Apple please!