Mac guys: What does this mean?

I use a Mac as my main business laptop (triple boots - Snow Leopard, WinXP and Linux).
I bought it used, fully installed (well, except for the Bootcamp stuff), and there is
only a single installed instance of the programs in the image. Yet, when I right click
a movie file, I get what you see in the image - multiple instances of each program.

Doesn't matter which icon I select - it works fine. I just am curious why so many
icons for each program?

Thanks

Jedi
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Thanks BQ! I'll try the "Onyx" program....

But just another silly Mac thing the fanboys will never mention when
bashing how horrid Windows is.... I'll just add it to the long growing list.

LOL



Jedi

 

Here's a few that bug me - please note: I run Win7, XP, Vista, Snow Leopard,
Ubuntu Linux 9.04 and 10.10 on a fair number of computers. No single OS is the
"be all end all" to me. They all have things that are good, and things that are
not so good.

1. Can't resize a window from anywhere but the lower right corner
2. Can't truly "maximize" a window - the green dot button only makes the
window the "size it needs to be to display all content" - if you want the window
to fill the screen, you have to drag it to fit (see item 1)
3. It takes either 3 or 4 keys (depending on mode) to capture a screen.
4. The file structure is such that files and folders are all arranged alphabetically,
rather than files being sorted separate from folders.
5. External drives MUST MUST MUST be "ejected" or dire results can occur. (Windows
does this automatically, all the time - if you're not accessing it, it's "ejected". Linux
has the same problem as Mac)
6. Many times when a CD won't eject, you have to reboot to get it out - no mechanical
eject button... you used to be able to use a bent paper clip to eject... not anymore.
7. The delete key doesn't delete things! (i.e., icons on the desk). You have to drag
to the trash to delete something (unless you do "command + delete)... all other
OS's I use, delete means "delete"
8. The menu for any program is always at the top... fine on a small screen, downright
annoying on a large one (I use a 24" when the Macbook is in the office)
9. Closing a window (red dot) doesn't actually shut down the program as it does on
all other operating systems

That's just a few that annoy me... none are "deal breakers" - I only point them out
because they are annoyances. No operating system is "perfect" - I know, because
I use most of them all the time. It just gets really annoying when Mac Fanboys
go off on how "perfect" a Mac is....

Refer to my OP.... that silliness is unique to Mac. No other OS mismanages program
start icons as badly - requiring a 3rd party solution or a terminal session to fix.

Not trying to start an OS war. You asked, I answered.

Now off to the BBQ ... Mrs. Jedi is nagging me



Jedi

 

Great question! LOTS of things!

1. Very stable - yes, I do get the beachball of doom from time to time, and that
little funny gray multi-linqual box telling me I have to do a hard reset. But they're
fairly few and far between.
2. INSTANT on and off to "sleep" mode - the single biggest reason I use the Mac
for my business laptop - I can open it and literally within seconds be pulling up a file.
3. It's just plain pretty! I like the look of how Mac renders to the screen.
4. Burns CDs that any computer can read - my Vista box very often burns CDs that
cannot be read in anything but... well... a MAC!!
5. Has the best WiFi management of any of the other computers I use - very easy to use.
6. With Bootcamp and Parallels, I can and often do run Windows and Linux apps all in
"Coherence mode" in a presentation, all seemlessly
7. NO REGISTRY!!!! The computer doesn't get slower and slower and slower over time
(Linux is the same way of course)
8. Virtually virus immune (at least right now - I'm sure in the future, hackers who
write viri will adapt more and more to the Mac world). No need for virus software, IMO.
9. Better implementation of a number of apps - Office on Mac IMO is much nicer than
Office on Windows (especially Word). iTunes on Mac works 1000% better to sync
my iPod than Windows - iTunes is still a bloated, dated, horrid piece of software - but
there is no question my iPod works better on the Mac than the Windows boxes.
10. Battery life under "sleep" is VASTLY better than my Windows laptops. I can leave
it in sleep for days and days, and still power it up. With Windows (or Linux) under
"sleep", the battery life is only a tad better than had I left it on.

As I said, there are good and bad in all things.... I have no particular "fanboy"
opinion of any one OS or computer. They are just tools - is a hammer better than
a pair of pliers? Depends on what you're doing and what you expect the tool to do.

Jedi