My mom has the nasty habit of assuming something is broken if it doesn't work precisely every time. This is a ridiculous benchmark, especially for computing. She also has the nasty habit of tweaking things minutely so as they don't work anymore.
She sits on the couch, with the computer around 2 meters away from her eyes, straining to see the 12 point font. I, in order to maintain my uber mac guru status, feel imperative to increase the font size. A couple of command +'s later, and voila. No more straining.
Sorry to take up two paragraphs to illustrate my point, but the Mac is a computer that will frustrate you, and surprise you simultaneously. There are thousands of shortcuts to make life easier, tweaks to increase productivity. The machine will never be fully discovered or completely mastered.
It's an unwieldy animal that has wild tendencies to obscure it's processes just when you think you figured it out. I have experimented, read macrumors.com for hours, and I'm still a novice. Better than my mother. I will try to update regularly with freeware, shortcuts, and fun Apple posts.
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