Friday, December 29, 2006

Switching it up to Mac from PC to Mac to PC from Mac!!!

Thing's i found different, as i used Bootcamp and OS X... but am Figuring it out a little at a time.
  1. Right clicking is available just use a different mouse (i think the mighty mouse has right clickableness, just no button)
  2. Applications don't "install" by clicking .exe file. You download a dmg file double click it, then drag the application icon "firefox icon" to your applications folder. Easy, to easy.
  3. The command key kinda nukes the control key in OS X so command + A instead of Control + A
  4. Reinstall's and multi boots Rock windows world, easy, you can boot to any drive hold the option key on boot and pick your drive.
  5. Drag your application folder next to the trash can (next to not into) drop it and then right click it, and you get an application list like the start menu in windoze.
  6. I have gone all Google web based now for email and calender and documents, i used outlook, but it just can't run in os x so since i boot into windows sometimes. i want to have access to my files and emails.
  7. Oh i use an external drive to be a boot camp go between. use a 32gb or less partion as fat32 and both OS's can read and write to it. a NTFS file system is read only in os x.
  8. use firefox browser sync, to keep your web browser in harmony. very useful so you can use ether OS for surfing the WWW.
  9. burning software is not integrated into OS X 10.4 why i have no clue. A program called Disco is cool for this drag and drop burning. why mac doesn't do this is unknown. good article
  10. QuickSilver.... oh its SOOO cool. It enables keyboard shortcuts for everything, the mouse is far less efficient, just a couple of keys and you can move files and much more.
  11. No AntiVirus software (for now but this will change) it's neat but i'm sure it'll change
  12. the dock (thing at the bottom) is cool but crowded, drag out items you don't use and in ones you do.
  13. Parallels is good to use for quick jaunts into windows, with no rebooting required.
  14. The iPod and iTunes dilemma is a hassle, i just dropped my widows iTunes and now update my pod in MAC. getting my library over here was a hassle, i lost my play count on my songs (it was horrible j/k)
  15. Widgets at f12 are neat and useful and quick.
  16. Finder is not as effective as windows explorer IMO (in my opinion) still not a fan (quicksilver helps),
  17. There is cool mac freeware out there even though i feel there is less than for windows
  18. Mac zealots are wingnuts sometimes it is still a computer
  19. Mac software is pricey mac's basically are more expensive in general.
Ok There you go... its what i coul think of.

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