Comments on: mac converts unite! http://blogs.parisisd.net/ckennedy/2008/03/08/mac-converts-unite/ Just another blogs.parisisd.net weblog Thu, 17 May 2012 23:18:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 By: dmartin http://blogs.parisisd.net/ckennedy/2008/03/08/mac-converts-unite/#comment-51 dmartin Fri, 23 May 2008 22:44:25 +0000 http://blogs.parisisd.net/ckennedy/2008/03/08/mac-converts-unite/#comment-51 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!!! 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!!!

]]> By: ckennedy http://blogs.parisisd.net/ckennedy/2008/03/08/mac-converts-unite/#comment-21 ckennedy Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:07:56 +0000 http://blogs.parisisd.net/ckennedy/2008/03/08/mac-converts-unite/#comment-21 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. 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.

]]> By: ckennedy http://blogs.parisisd.net/ckennedy/2008/03/08/mac-converts-unite/#comment-20 ckennedy Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:43:27 +0000 http://blogs.parisisd.net/ckennedy/2008/03/08/mac-converts-unite/#comment-20 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! 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!

]]> By: ckennedy http://blogs.parisisd.net/ckennedy/2008/03/08/mac-converts-unite/#comment-19 ckennedy Sat, 08 Mar 2008 15:11:49 +0000 http://blogs.parisisd.net/ckennedy/2008/03/08/mac-converts-unite/#comment-19 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 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

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