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.
   

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[emperor]

yes, I did. oops.

Unfortunately, the python-cocoa documentation assumes you'll be using nibs, so starting off not knowing the bindings OR anything about cocoa proved to be rather a stumbling-block (but I have little time and brain ATM)