As threatened, newbie Mac questions

[fivemack]

1. Is there a sensible way of resizing a window whose resize handle is under the Dock?


2. Could someone point me at an XCode tutorial? I'm at the trial-and-error stage, and I can't even understand the error messages


3. Are Python-to-Cocoa bindings available, and adequate to write applications which look reasonable?


4. If I'm missing Excel, and find gnumeric from fink hopelessly ugly, kludgy and incompatible, is there any better move than picking up Office X? I don't need anything more than Excel97 gave me on Windows, but I feel I want at least that. For word-processing, I'm reasonably happy with TextEdit - I don't need more than a couple of styles and spell-check


5. I take several thousand photos a year, at 2.5MB each with my new camera, and my archive is 10,000 or so images. Picasa coped nicely on the PC; will iPhoto?


6. Where can I get a 'macish' (IE small, square and white) USB hub? Palm, compact-flash reader, Webcam, mouse and keyboard have used up all my ports


7. Is there a way to get fvwm2-under-XDarwin (or, if you prefer, some other window manager under some other X server) to do solid window drag and resize? Currently I don't even get an outline box; with twm I got no feedback, with fvwm I get a teeny little box with coordinates in.
   

Comments

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

My USB hub is bluish-green, which matches my CPU box. When it was new, it blew away all the Windows boxen on SETI@Home.

Beware of Apple's changes in fashion. If they come out with the Plaid Mac next year, your white USB hub will look so 2005.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

I had a Belkin hub with my ruby iMac which came with coloured paper inserts so you could match the colour of your machine. It looks a bit sad next to my gleaming white iMac III, though.