Tidy Mac Desktop

time Mac users use their desktops vs. Windows users. Mac users place icons in very specific places on their desktop, and they know that it'll never move. ...

Is there any way to keep the Mac from dropping every downloaded file known to man on the desktop? ...

I'm a new mac user. Whenever I download an application a white icon appears on the desktop. ...

The problem lies in the fact that Sun's use SPARC-based processors and Mac's use PPC-based processors. There is the possibility that you could run OpenStep for Solaris on the systems. This would give you a third option of environments to work in (Open Windows, CDE, OpenStep). The only problem is that the last version of OpenStep for Solaris was originally designed for Solaris...

This may be a stupid question, but would it be possible at all to run osx on a sun blade100? can it be done? as the hardware of the sun blade seems very similar to what a mac uses, but i don't know too much, so i dunno ..Could it run osx? - Anyway possible, as the sun hardware is pretty tidy! :) Thanks any replies of a serious nature are encouraged.

Wow. And I thought these people on this forum knew EVERYthing! ;) Seriously, thanks a lot for all the great information. However, I hardly ever keep/read old e-mails. Once I reply to them, I delete them. I'm very anal and like to keep a tidy e-mail inbox. LOL So, that's really the only reason why I was checking into Mail in the first place--I was thinking that I could...

http://homepage.mac.com/randmiranda/.Pictures/other/sectioned.png Dirty. Tidy. Normal.

Expose is nice, but it isn't the answer to everything. It works well only for certain types of windows (i.e. the ones with loads of graphics). I use it regularly when I run simulations in MATLAB and my own custom software. Expose really simplifies working with 10 - 20 graphs at a single time.

is a waste of hard disk space. I prefer to keep my desktop tidy and keep the number of windows open to a minimum so that I can find what I need in a split second anyway. ...

hello all i was wondering, before OSX came into our lives, there were certain things we did to keep our macs happy like rebuilding the desktop, keeping the preferences folder tidy, etc. is OSX so advanced that those features arent needed anymore, or did i just miss it when they were telling us how to do all that good stuff? being on a cable modem, i have a lot of files...