mac converts unite!
Through my agreement to participate in the STAR grant I received a macbook this week. There are seemingly an endless number of differences between the mac and pc world. Most of them do not seem to be great barriers, but more along the lines of annoyances to me. I have spent the last I don’t know how many years in the pc world and have grown somewhat adept in navigating through windows eccentricities. Now I have entered the mac side and catch myself wondering how to do so many of the things that I mindlessly did before.
I also find myself pleasantly surprised with some of the “cool” things that I am able to do and play with now that I have not before.
I would like to use this space to share my experiences and certainly welcome / beg for others to post their findings, joys, and frustrations here too.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:11 am
I’ll start the list. The first day I was playing with the macbook I hurt my fingers tapping the trackpad in an attempt to click with a tap like I had done in the windows world.
This option can be turned on by:
going to system preferences
keyboard & mouse
trackpad
check clicking
one step further if you go ahead and check the “tap trackpad using two fingers for secondary click” it gives you a “right click” by tapping with two fingers
March 8th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
wow. I should read other’s blogs.
http://blogs.parisisd.net/dmartin/2008/03/06/switching-pc-to-mac-starting-hints/
much better job already done. thanks!
March 9th, 2008 at 10:07 am
what the heck…. I’ll keep going.
iphoto:
over the years I have gathered a number of photos that I show the kids for various lessons, or just to kill some time on some days. anyway…. I dumped what I had on my dell laptop into the mac last week and then dumped them into iphoto. of course I had some duplicates on the dell that I had put into different folders and then might lose them and put them in again. my poor file management skills at work.
The first cool thing that iphoto did was ask me if I wanted to eliminate the duplicates, I said yes and wound up with ~2300 images. So, I’m playing with iphoto this morning and find the smart album feature. I create a new smart album called space and create a rule that iphoto find any image that has space or shuttle or planet in the text and put that image into the new album.
the remote!
you can control itunes of course. but, you can also control Keynote and iphoto.
May 23rd, 2008 at 5:44 pm
Sheesh where have I been?? I totally missed this and I wish you WOULD keep going. I am easily distracted and lately have been doing other things.
I just posted on my comp day class last night and uploaded my handout. The tips were pc oriented however the handout was created in Pages on the Mac and I had so much fun playing with it. Pages ends up being kind of a cross between word and publisher but the main thing is just pick a template, copy and paste pictures into the spaces it provides and copy text and then paste - match style to place it in the document. I’ll try to put together some steps.
By the way someone creates a document on office 2007 and can’t open it on a pc because it has a DOCX extension, you can open it in Pages and then click export, choose DOC and voila!
Also for absolutely useless coolness - hold down the shift key and click the minimize button and watch what happens.
Viva La Fruit!!!