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Sticking with Entourage may be a problem, though.

You might want to look at or evaluate these:

Crm4Mc 2.0
    http://www.ibizzi.com/

DayChaser : Econ Technologies
    http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/DayChas er/daychaser_overview.html

DayLite : Marketcircle
    http://www.marketcircle.com/

ecOrganizer
    http://www.ecorganizer.com/

intuiware : HotPlan
    http://www.intuiware.com/

Now Software : Now up to date
    http://www.nowsoftware.com/

Organizer software by CSoftLabs
    http://www.csoftlab.com/

Pure Mac : Personal Information Managers
    http://www.pure-mac.com/pims.html

RadicalBreeze.com - Formation
    http://www.radicalbreeze.com/formation/index.shtml

SOHO Organizer
    http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/sohoorganizer.h tml

OD4Contact
    http://objective-decision.com/en/

The nice thing is that it grabs text from emails, web, anything, even with images and fonts and styles, and eveh has a good search engine and categories to sort.

1) There is no 'Menu' button. I do not want to have to run an Application to get a list of programs which I then have to click through. Mouse-over opening menus is nice. It doesn't have to be called Start, or 'K', or anything fancy but a button that has menus and sub-menus listing my appications would be a start.

Quick easy way to achive this is to drag the entire 'Applications' folder to the dock. Or you can create your own unique shortcuts folder with on the applications you want and drag this to the dock. Or you can get Fruit Menu, F10 Launch Studio, or a host of other applications that do the same things. Search Version Tracker if you want them.

2) I want the windows to store my settings. If I list applications by details, rather than as naff, huge icons, unless there is an option that I can find to tell it to store my settings, I expect it to be done automatically.

MacOS X lets to set window setting either 'Globaly' for your account, or for any given window. To do this open the folder you want then click on 'View - View Options' (or hit command + j) then click the radio button next to 'This window only'. Then any changes you set for this view will stick for this folder, or if you selected 'All windows' then all folder views.

3) I want to be able to tab through all my Windows. Not just '1' of each application. If I have a terminal up and 2 Mozilla windows (not 1 window with tabs), I want the Apple key + Tab to be able to go through all 3.

'Command + Tab' cycles through Applications, 'Command + ~ (tilde)' cycles through an individual Applications windows

4) I want it to tell me -- without requiring me to search in depth, and spend about 20 minutes -- what these shortcut keys are. I can't be the only one used to Linux/Windows, surely?

The standard shortcut keys for all Mac systems dating back to the original Classic is: Cut (Command + X) / Copy (Command + C) / Paste (Command + V) / Select All (Command + A) / Undo (Command +Z). There are many others depending on the Application and the amount of time the developer put in to this. The short cuts are normal listed next to the comand in the Application's menus.

MacOS 10.2.x enables you to turn on 'Full Keyboard Access' if you want additional Shortcuts. Go to System Preferences - Keyboard - Full Keyboard Access.

Also there are a ton of third party apps which will enable you to define your own if you want.

5) I want to be able to change settings in the 'Control Centre' without having to go back to the menu of options at each stage. This is just usability. If I want to go from one option to the next, I have to click one, which redraws my window, make changes, then click the button to show all the options. I can't a) look at more than one and b) have a list of options in the background (if you're changing something in every category it's handy to see where you're upto).

Try looking at the menu options listed up there next to 'Apple / System Preferences / Edit / View / Window / Help'. Clicking on the 'View' option will give you an alphabetical listing of every option in the System Preferences.

6) I want the maximise button (the +) to fscking well maximise. I don't mean 'get bigger' - I WILL DRAG THE WINDOW IF I WANT THAT. I WANT YOU TO MAXIMISE.

Read the previous response to how the MacOS handles windows.

7) I want to be able to tell OSX what I want click events to do -- I want the double click on the title bar to MAXIMISE. NOT MINISE. I SHOULD BE ABLE TO TELL IT THIS.

Individual preferences; however, Apple is keeping the behavior consistent with MacOS 8.x+ in terms of minimize/window shade features.

8) I want the terminal to run faster than my P200 running Linux. If I run the default shell, or even more so bash, it crawls. I use the ter

OmniOutliner

StickyBrain

And I swear I've seen it in a few others. I don't think Microsoft has a particular claim on that UI widget.

How about Group Organizer by Chronos Software? Not only does it provide the typical PIM functions, but it is specifically designed for developers/consultants and contains features like Gantt charts.

I used an older version of Personal Organizer (it used to be called Consultant) and it was great.

How about Group Organizer by Chronos Software? Not only does it provide the typical PIM functions, but it is specifically designed for developers/consultants and contains features like Gantt charts.

I used an older version of Personal Organizer (it used to be called Consultant) and it was great.

How about Group Organizer by Chronos Software? Not only does it provide the typical PIM functions, but it is specifically designed for developers/consultants and contains features like Gantt charts.

I used an older version of Personal Organizer (it used to be called Consultant) and it was great.