Comments on: Tell Me One Thing You Can Do With a Mac that I Can’t Do With Windows! http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/05/tell-me-one-thing-you-can-do-with-mac.html I've been observing personal computing behavior for a long time, and now I have some things to say. Here are my two cents about computing, music, software, and related topics. Thu, 07 May 2026 12:50:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Sarah Camp » Blog Archive » For all of you “Non-Believers” http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/05/tell-me-one-thing-you-can-do-with-mac.html#comment-131 Sarah Camp » Blog Archive » For all of you “Non-Believers” Mon, 06 Nov 2006 20:09:29 +0000 http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/05/tell-me-one-thing-you-can-do-with-mac.html#comment-131 [...] Tell me one thing you can do with a Mac that you can’t do with Windows [...] [...] Tell me one thing you can do with a Mac that you can’t do with Windows [...]

]]> By: Leland http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/05/tell-me-one-thing-you-can-do-with-mac.html#comment-130 Leland Thu, 22 Jun 2006 15:38:21 +0000 http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/05/tell-me-one-thing-you-can-do-with-mac.html#comment-130 Hi Fubini, The problem with your suggestion is that the browser saves the HTML as a bunch of separate files--the HTML, the graphics, the CSS style sheet, the JavaScript, etc. You can't email a folder to someone and expect them to "install" and use it. That's why the web archive format was created, which I discuss in the article. To the two readers who correctly point out the troubles Microsoft is having in Europe over PDF, you're right... it's too late for Microsoft to do this the right way. They should have done what Apple did, back before Mac OS X: They simply bit the bullet and licensed the Acrobat reader from Adobe, so it was installed with every Mac. With one notable exception (Flash), Microsoft has been loathe to adopt file formats from any outside parties--no matter how good. They always try to take over the market the other company created by building a competing format that's functionally (nearly) equivalent. In the case of PDF, they thought Microsoft Office formats would do. Now they realize that's no good, and they simply need to come to an agreement with Adobe to license the PDF reader. No more bundling, please. Hi Fubini,
The problem with your suggestion is that the browser saves the HTML as a bunch of separate files–the HTML, the graphics, the CSS style sheet, the JavaScript, etc. You can’t email a folder to someone and expect them to “install” and use it. That’s why the web archive format was created, which I discuss in the article.

To the two readers who correctly point out the troubles Microsoft is having in Europe over PDF, you’re right… it’s too late for Microsoft to do this the right way. They should have done what Apple did, back before Mac OS X: They simply bit the bullet and licensed the Acrobat reader from Adobe, so it was installed with every Mac. With one notable exception (Flash), Microsoft has been loathe to adopt file formats from any outside parties–no matter how good. They always try to take over the market the other company created by building a competing format that’s functionally (nearly) equivalent. In the case of PDF, they thought Microsoft Office formats would do. Now they realize that’s no good, and they simply need to come to an agreement with Adobe to license the PDF reader. No more bundling, please.

]]> By: Fubini http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/05/tell-me-one-thing-you-can-do-with-mac.html#comment-129 Fubini Tue, 13 Jun 2006 05:47:03 +0000 http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/05/tell-me-one-thing-you-can-do-with-mac.html#comment-129 A much better option for IE users that you didn't mention is just using the Save As... option. It just saves the page as the HTML source so regardless of whose cookies took you where, whatever is displayed will be saved. You can recall it at any time (assuming the website is still around) and if you wanted to email it I bet that the file size would be thinner than your PDF. Just a suggestion. A much better option for IE users that you didn’t mention is just using the Save As… option. It just saves the page as the HTML source so regardless of whose cookies took you where, whatever is displayed will be saved. You can recall it at any time (assuming the website is still around) and if you wanted to email it I bet that the file size would be thinner than your PDF.

Just a suggestion.

]]> By: Not Quite http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/05/tell-me-one-thing-you-can-do-with-mac.html#comment-128 Not Quite Mon, 12 Jun 2006 20:30:48 +0000 http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/05/tell-me-one-thing-you-can-do-with-mac.html#comment-128 "PDF is an open standard, although, like java, one controlled by Adobe. Still, there’s nothing to stop any 3rd party, including Microsoft, from building a PDF reader and writer, since the specification is open and free to use." See the link http://news.com.com/Office%2C+Vista+changed+in+wake+of+Adobe+threat/2100-1012_3-6079519.html Even in those circumstances, I wouldn't create a pdf because a link and saying, "I like the red one" works. “PDF is an open standard, although, like java, one controlled by Adobe. Still, there’s nothing to stop any 3rd party, including Microsoft, from building a PDF reader and writer, since the specification is open and free to use.”

See the link

http://news.com.com/Office%2C+Vista+changed+in+wake+of+Adobe+threat/2100-1012_3-6079519.html

Even in those circumstances, I wouldn’t create a pdf because a link and saying, “I like the red one” works.

]]> By: regulus6633 http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/05/tell-me-one-thing-you-can-do-with-mac.html#comment-127 regulus6633 Mon, 12 Jun 2006 19:30:13 +0000 http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/05/tell-me-one-thing-you-can-do-with-mac.html#comment-127 Nice article but you got one part completely wrong and this error definitely impacts your article. It's not Microsoft's fault that the pdf functionality isn't included in windows. It's Adobe and the European Union antitrust suit that's the problem. Apparently they feel that if MS included this function then Adobe would lose customers. See the following for more details... http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-6079320.html Nice article but you got one part completely wrong and this error definitely impacts your article. It’s not Microsoft’s fault that the pdf functionality isn’t included in windows. It’s Adobe and the European Union antitrust suit that’s the problem. Apparently they feel that if MS included this function then Adobe would lose customers. See the following for more details…

http://news.com.com/2100-1012_3-6079320.html

]]> By: Adobe Acrabat http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/05/tell-me-one-thing-you-can-do-with-mac.html#comment-126 Adobe Acrabat Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:52:26 +0000 http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/05/tell-me-one-thing-you-can-do-with-mac.html#comment-126 Nice work! I think your site is interesting and wise. I agree with you in the post "Tell Me One Thing You Can Do With a Mac that I Can’t Do With Windows!". Actually my girlfriend and I are launching a new project about <a href="http://www.adobe-acrobat.info-a1.com" rel="nofollow">Adobe Acrabat</a> and related internet sites. After reading some of your articles, I think you may have the professional skills we are looking for. We will contact you very soon. Nice work! I think your site is interesting and wise. I agree with you in the post “Tell Me One Thing You Can Do With a Mac that I Can’t Do With Windows!”. Actually my girlfriend and I are launching a new project about Adobe Acrabat and related internet sites. After reading some of your articles, I think you may have the professional skills we are looking for. We will contact you very soon.

]]> By: Macaday http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/05/tell-me-one-thing-you-can-do-with-mac.html#comment-125 Macaday Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:01:42 +0000 http://www.musingsfrommars.org/2005/05/tell-me-one-thing-you-can-do-with-mac.html#comment-125 And here is a gem I have just discovered. The PDF files created by OSX print do not carry the embedded links. Would that they did... Pages doesn't, nor Word, and not even the full Pro version of Adobe Acrobat will either. But there is, I've discovered, a nifty little open source programme called HTMLdoc. It gives lot's of options for creating PDF's and best of all it creates them with all the original embedded links in place! Having moaned about this so many times beforeI'm really sure there are lot's of folk who will find this useful. And here is a gem I have just discovered. The PDF files created by OSX print do not carry the embedded links. Would that they did…

Pages doesn’t, nor Word, and not even the full Pro version of Adobe Acrobat will either.

But there is, I’ve discovered, a nifty little open source programme called HTMLdoc. It gives lot’s of options for creating PDF’s and best of all it creates them with all the original embedded links in place!

Having moaned about this so many times beforeI’m really sure there are lot’s of folk who will find this useful.

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