Comments on: 5 More Ways to Become a Mac Minimalist

By: nicors communication - Mpls VPN

nicors communication - Mpls VPN — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:02:53 +0000

Use terminal.

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[...] Ways to Become a Mac Minimalist & 5 More Ways My interpretation of minimalism in the home office is removing all distracting items that are not [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:36:36 +0000

That mini monitor is crazy, for about the same price you can get a 20″ monitor instead of a 7″

By: Tice

Tice — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:04:32 +0000

6. Get rid of unnecessary gadgets: http://blog.tice.de/beitrag.php?file=2007_10_21_1306 ; )

By: Zachary Abresch

Zachary Abresch — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:15:21 +0000

I’ve been considering one of those Mimo monitors for my home office setup for awhile now. I use two displays at work but at home I often find myself wanting to get rid of smaller windows or apps from my workspace. I use Spaces and all but the Mimo would allow me to move them out from in front of me but still leave them accessible. It would be great for certain Flash panels as well. Are you happy with it?

By: Khürt Williams

Khürt Williams — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:52:56 +0000

For a truly minimalist browsing experience use Google Chrome. http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac

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By: Benjamin bonnet

Benjamin bonnet — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:14:36 +0000

Use terminal.

By: David Klein

David Klein — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:28:16 +0000

You have a point about my setup. There’s still lots to remove. However, when compared to my old setup it’s definitely an improvement:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tehdik/3981843296/

By: KsbjA

KsbjA — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:00:27 +0000

What about moving most desktop icons to the dock or a custom launcher (like Quicksilver)?

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:36:18 +0000

*having a fantastic looking set up

By: Victor

Victor — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:35:11 +0000

Minimalist I am not. But I do like to keep things clean. My adium has a skin that integrates well into osx, safari, although full of bookmarks in the menubar (can’t help it, I use them constantly), is kept stock. I’ve tried other browsers but none reach the level of usability that safari does for me. My dock is small on the bottom of my screen, icons are probably 24×24 maybe a little smaller. And I have stacks set up for my major folders (ie Downloads, class notes, Applications, and a separate commonly used application folder). I’m far from a minimalist but I still like my stuff simple.

Btw. You’re set up is not minimalist. At all. Have a fantastic looking set up, and being minimalist are two incredibly different things.

By: DavidC

DavidC — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:49:34 +0000

Having read both this and your previous article on Minimalist Macs, I found that I was doing much of the things that you suggest. I love Quicksilver, and use it all the time. Adium is my IM program of choice, and Bowtie is great for telling me the track without un-minimising iTunes. I also use spaces and exposé all the time when I’m working on my macbook just to try and get all the tasks done without cluttering the small real estate up too much.

However, unlike Mr Klein I have all manner of icons in my menu bar that stretch it almost half way across the screen. I don’t see that as cluttering the screen. I also like to see the dock, and have 10 Apps and a couple stacks in it normally, if only because I see it as something that defines a Mac, and therefore is to be treasured rather than hidden away. To me it is all about cleaning up the desktop – as long as that isn’t full of icons, then I am happy.

I will commend Mr Klein on his beautiful work space. That MiMo Monitor is certainly a nice piece of kit. My workspace is a fairly ordered mess of external harddrives, wireless kb and mouse and a 22″ TV serving as a monitor for my MacBook. Certainly not as ‘minimal,’ or beautiful, as his!

By: Bram

Bram — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:44:40 +0000

I’ve never understood the obsession with Helvetica font. I understand that it may look cleaner, but it’s not easier on the eyes if you read a lot of text. Serifs on fonts help us to distinguish letters. That’s why newspapers are formatted with serif fonts. Sans serif fonts work far better for large billboards. So, how is having a cleaner font that is more challenging on the eyes over time more minimalist?

By: Larson

Larson — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:16:02 +0000

I have my few main apps that I use all the time in the dock, but I also added the Applications folder to the Dock on the right side. Any app is then 2 clicks away.

By: lh

lh — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:03:07 +0000

I’ve never had a problem with the dock taking up screen space — but I could see this being an issue on smaller screens.

I understand what you’re saying, and it makes perfect sense in theory, but I haven’t been able to make it work for me. It’s not that I’m reluctant to change my workflow; I read articles like this one all the time and have tried Quicksilver and Launchbar and removing all icons from my dock on several different occasions based on just this kind of recommendation. I’ve taken the time to learn both programs, but I always go back to using the dock in the end. I can usually grab the mouse and drag an icon somewhere faster than I can think of the name of the file and application. Maybe I need to watch some more screencasts, but I still don’t understand what most people are doing with their computers all day that makes using only keyboard shortcuts faster. I do use a lot of keyboard shortcuts, just not to replace the dock or Finder.