Yes! Another productivity killer brought to you by Apple.

Remember old Alt + Tab which switches between windows on non-mac OSes? Mac also has it: ⌘ + Tab. When I press this shortcut, I see row of icons - nothing new here - but if you switch to minimized app, nothing happens. And there is no indication other than visual "something" in dock (if you use dock autohide - too bad, Apple doesn't care about your special needs).

If you happen to know that app, you want to bring to front, is minimized, you can press ⌥ while holding ⌘ while hovering on chosen app and then let go of ⌘.  You will probably have to slow down to remember the exact sequence of things you have to do to perform this magic, but slow is good - ⌘ + ⌥ + Tab with one hand? Torture.

Just a reminder to everyone: I'm using Mountain Lion and I haven't used any previous osx before.

So there is this really annoying bug. As we all know it, Apple loves using real-life paradigms in their software. And one of these is spatial finder. Fortunately for people like me, who loves productivity and cleanliness, instead of gazillion open windows, there is also setting to use navigational style. And it even is the default one. But there are times when this spatial metaphor is forced upon user (like when browsing my external HDD). This magical setting is called "Always open folders in a new window". As you can see, this isn't strictly spatial/navigational setting, as Apple can only promise us it will open windows in new windows every time, but not the other way around. But to me, it really feels like a very annoying bug.

I was left with my mouth open when I couldn't find a way to open animated GIF. I mean - seriously, Apple? You have only one image viewer installed by default and you can't do this basic thing? Opening animated GIF with video player is retarted.

And while I'm at dissing Preview - why there isn't an option (which should be done automatically) to open 1 image and be able to navigate back/forward in current directory? Why should I select multiple images and open them all at once loosing my precious time?

Fortunately there is Xee.

Who knows what is the difference between these options?

• Clean up by
• Arrange by
• Sort by

All these options have very similar submenu: Name, Kind, Date created, etc. I find it very confusing and unnecessary. And even with so much "freedom" of sorting files, I still haven't found a way to organize my files the way Windows and Linux does naturally. E.g. folders first, settings are maintained across all system, aligned to grid and floated left (not just moved to nearest square). Seems easy enough, but it isn't. You can't put folders first. Just can't. This I could live with (albeit unhappy). Other options are there in menus and settings but somehow just don't work.

Way to f*ck up this very basic thing, Apple.

From Mac OS help:

There are two ways to change the language of the login window:

• Reinstall OS X and select the desired language during installation
• Or, use the steps below depending on your version of OS X.

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UX at it's best.