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Accidental Tech Podcast

Mac Menus - The Only Way to Use Menus From the Menu Bar

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The way Mac users used menus was to click on the word that was the menu title and you held the mouse button down. You would move the cursor down until the item that you wanted to select was highlighted, then you'd release the mouse button and it would select that item. That was the only way to use menus from the menu bar on the Mac. Obviously, eventually windows came out and when windows came out, they didn't do it that way. Clicking and having the menu go down is essentially a mode because at that point, the next place you click is either in the menu, or it's not in the menu,.

Pre-show:
- Frame Game
- ❗️ New Member’s special ❗️
- Belated observation of an anniversary
  - Casey’s ATP announcement tweet
Follow-up:
- The new Mac mini is the same dimensions as the old one
- But the base-model SSD is far slower… again.
  - Max Tech
- Twitter officially bans third-party clients
  - Diff (via Andy Baio)
  - Twitter Dev’s tweet
    - Jason’s thoughts, which are 😗👌🏻
    - Jason’s follow-up
  - Twitterrific Goodbye
    - Linea
    - Tot
    - xScope
  - Tweetbot Goodbye
    - Ivory
- Twitter does, indeed, seem to be crumbling
- Valentines Day at White Castle
- Unusual ways to listen to ATP
- Some Movie Club follow-up:
  - Regarding Hunt’s language change (via David Watson)
  - Some thoughts from Patrick Warn
    - The Whistle Blower
  - Smarter Every Day gets on the USS Toledo
Marco’s USB-charging question
Apple is exploring touchscreen Macs 😱
#askatp:
- Any app suggestions for young kids? (via Lee Jarvis)
- How in the 🤬 can you move or rename an open document on macOS? (via Brian Coffey)
- How do we handle health insurance [since 🇺🇸 sucks]? (via Nevin)
Post-show: Window-washing follow-up

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