OT: (partially) Where to submit Macbook questions?

[Matrix Mole]

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Josef Lowder<joe at actionline.com> wrote:
> So, what is the best forum to submit questions on how to do things on
> a macbook?

There are numerous mac forums out there. A pretty good one I used to
read (and still have in my bookmarks) is the mac cast forums. The
maccast itself is a pretty interesting podcast dubbed "for mac geeks,
by mac geeks." You can find it on maccast.com and the forums are on
forums.maccast.com. I know there are quite a few others, but can't
think of them off the top of my head, Generally a google search for
mac forum should find quite a few, some good, some not so good.

> And how to delete a folder.  (Still haven't found an answer to that
> ... except to go to the command line).  But even that was very
> difficult to find. And then files are hard to find ... 'locate'
> doesn't work

Jon mentioned dragging the folder to the trash bin, if you're a
keyboard guy, you can press shift-backspace and the folder will be
moved into the trash as well.

> And there is no simple "notepad" or simple/efficient editor (that I
> could find).

Textedit comes with the mac by default, in the application folder as
mentioned by Jon. I don't care for it personally. MacVim is a really
good editor (if you enjoy vim). Another good free editor that I've got
on my macbook is Smultron.

> And how to copy a DVD movie to a file so I don't have to carry a bunch
> of DVD's with me on my flight tomorrow.

Jon mentioned why this isn't "by default." I've found though that
handbrake is a pretty good tool for getting a dvd onto your hard drive
for watching.

> And if someone could just tell me how to copy a DVD to the hard disk
> ... at least one that I've recorded off-air if not a prerecorded
> (stupid DRM) movie that I own ... so I can view it from a HD file or
> folder ... and how to then delete the file(s) and/or folder(s) when
> I'm done.  (Moving files to trash and having the only option to delete
> everything in trash is not a proper solution.)

I don't think there's a permanent delte option inside the mac gui. For
that you'll have to almost always keep a terminal window open and
delte the files from the command line since there is no easy undelete
option there (just like deleting files from the command line in
Linux).