Dreams and questions

First, a Mac question:

I have my resolution set at 1280x800 because it is oh so sharp and pretty. However, it was giving me a bit of eyestrain so I fooled around with my Firefox text settings and I'm all happy with the text now, but pictures are still really tiny. Icon-making is going to be somewhat different (I'm not sure if that's different in a good way yet) when my 100x100 icons look about 25% smaller than I'm used to. Other pictures as well (comics and art) are so small that I kind of feel like I can't see the detail. Is there any way to make my resolution be, say, 1152x720 and retain the sharpness? I've tried setting it to 1152x720 in the display but it seems quite fuzzy. I imagine I'd get used to it, but whenever I look at the 1280x800 again I'm like "OMG so much sharper!" Is there anything I can do, or do I just have to choose one or the other?

I also had several strange dreams. In the first one, I couldn't get up to get a drink of water unless I could find the popup menu with the water bottle on it -_- Too much playing with new computer, methinks? Then I dreamed that Ariel (from The Little Mermaid, yes) was living on an island (she had legs) and the island needed battle reinforcements from the king of the ocean, but all he sent was a couple of empty oyster shells and some rocks and one periwinkle, who fled when Ariel hummed him out to ask him for help. The king had said he would send all sorts of elite troops and stuff. Then Ariel was trying to do her hair but it wasn't working because a dragonfly kept trying to help by lifting bits up. She was going to get mermaids to help her brush it.

In the third dream, I dreamed I woke up and said "That dream was so awesome! I have to write this down!" but then when I really did wake up, I realized that it in fact was incredibly dorky. Here's what happened:

( Cut for extreme dorkiness )

Yet another Mac question

Okay, so I went on to Gaia and it wouldn't let me load some things unless I ran Firefox in Rosetta mode. I did this, and it let me do what I wanted. So, is there any reason that I shouldn't run Firefox in Rosetta mode all the time? Nothing I've found yet on Apple.com or Google has recommended either way.

Thanks :)

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More questions

This is really turning into a asking-for-computer-advice journal, isn't it?

This is a question for Gimp users: I'm sure I'm doing something humiliatingly stupid, but I can't get it to rotate pictures. No matter how many tutorials I read or how many times I go through the Gimp User Manual, images just won't rotate. I've tried clicking on the rotate button and going to "Transform --> Arbitrary Rotation" in the Layer menu, then moving the little slider and watching the square outline of the image rotate, and then clicking "Rotate". All of the manuals say that it should rotate when you click "Rotate," but it just doesn't. It does that "wave of motion down your image" thing that indicates that it's doing SOMETHING, but it doesn't rotate. No matter which way I try it - by clicking on the button to get the Rotate dialog box or by going through the menus themselves - it never rotates. I've tried it with grids on and off. I've tried being on a layer that's not the background but still has the image in it. I've tried rotating an image with a lot of blank space around it in case it can't rotate outside of the confines of the canvas edge. Nothing works.

It does, however, rotate 90 degrees or 180 degrees IF I select those from the Image --> Transform menu. But I can't rotate it using the Rotate button.

Oh wise f'list, help me, please! I'm sure it's some ridiculous thing, but I just can't get any image to rotate.