~dewi

Made the switch to Mac in '03 in order to use Final Cut Pro, haven't looked back

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"Restraint may often be the better part of valor, lest one find oneself victorious but alone."

Well, i've used PC my entire life and am just now switching for school. I don't have the computer yet. It should be here in a few days. But I downloaded Safari for PC, and call me thick, but is there a drop down option for web addresses like in firefox?

Stupid questions aside, I'm really looking forward to trying out Aperture. I've had the software for a week and a half and it's killing me that I can't use it yet.

As a guy who doesn't know Mac, do you have any noob advice for me? My father made the switch a few weeks ago and said that the learning curve is quite steep, the mac world just assumes that the users know everything about the OS so there are too few tutorials, help sites, etc.

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740^th MS- Death Wears Bunny Slippers

Mac = smack - --

Pretty happy with windows based PC - Used to have a small Mac myself in dino years -
plus worked on mac for different companies - yet still prefer PC - so much easier with acces to programs and fonts and things ----

yeah - Mac people are often really full of themselves I found -- they really seem to stay in their own pride like a bunch of lions ---

Well that is one of my big trepidations. I'm afraid that all the little random programs and such will be much more lacking on Mac. Luckily I can still use Windows on Mac.


On another note, does that(Mac = smack - --) mean I can sell the computer by the ounce?

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740^th MS- Death Wears Bunny Slippers

Perhaps we shall hunt them. Mercilessly. And steal all those goddamn readme files!

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740^th MS- Death Wears Bunny Slippers

I learned on deployment in Afghanistan with no help, it wasn't that bad actually. As for web browsing, I've just downloaded Firefox for Mac, I like it a lot better than Safari, I also use Thunderbird for the email client. The first bit of advice to make your life easier is to make sure to get a two button mouse for it. After that, let me know if you have any specific questions, I can probably provide an answer pretty quick having gone through the switch after growing up on PC. The biggest hurdle for me actually was finding out how to get the combined file size of multiple files selected. In windows if you grab a bunch of files in explorer it'll automatically tell you the size of the group in the status bar. No such luck with Mac. After 3 years, I finally discovered that you must select the group of files and press "Command-ALT-I" at which point a box will open up with the combined file size and allow you to make a change to all files at once. Other than that, I've not come across any brainbusters.

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"Restraint may often be the better part of valor, lest one find oneself victorious but alone."

After that, I never thought I'd see the day where I nod a good one at Gates.

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740^th MS- Death Wears Bunny Slippers

mac attack -
tag and whack
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