Chapter 12. She Drives Me Crazy: How to Stop Annoying Things

Mac OS X is an amazing operating system. Yet it can also be an annoying operating system. So, depending on what you’re doing with it—it’s either annoyingly amazing or amazingly annoying. Okay, I’m not really being fair, because in reality it’s not the operating system itself that’s annoying; it’s things in the operating system—aspects of it (if you will)—that are annoying. This chapter is about how to quickly make some of the most egregious annoyances go away. But make no mistake about it—Mac OS X isn’t the first Apple operating system to include wildly annoying features. Remember Balloon Help—Apple’s attempt at coming up with a better form of onscreen help, which could have been devised ...

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