“If you’ve just switched from a Windows PC to a new Apple Macintosh, you might be wondering if you’ll ever get back all those Windows touches you lost in the changeover. The short answer is that you haven’t lost anything. The long answer is right in front of you, in this week’s column,” Al Fasoldt writes for The Syracuse Post-Standard.
Fasoldt lists some things that former Windows users may think they’ve lost and explains why they haven’t and what they’ve gained.
Fasoldt covers:
• The right mouse button
• Ejecting CDs or DVDs
• Mac OS X Dock vs. Windows Taskbar
• Mac OS X Dock vs. Windows Start Menu
• Exposé
• Task Manager
• Icon previews
• Keychain
• Keyboard differences
Full article here.
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All you Windows losers, you have lost something when you switch to a Mac: Your machine is no longer just like a five-dollar crack whore in the number of viruses it accumulates! Yeh-hehehessssssssss.
Ohh, and my apologies to crack whores everywhere who may be reading this thread. Crack whores are people too.
What a nice Christmas present for all of those Switchers!
Just joking — No they’re not.
Hey, I keed. I keed because I care.
Finding a good forum is a nice thing for Windows Switchers. Mac users have traditionally been more than willing to help.
And if you need to see what a Mac can do, check out my screenshots
http://homepage.mac.com/hogfish/PhotoAlbum2.html
I miss being able to resize a window by grabbing the side of the window. Mac users look at me like I’m nuts, but it seriously is the only thing I miss.
Did someone forward this article to Paul Thurrott’s wife I hope? : )
Your start menu: Just drag your Applications menu to the right end of the dock and drop it there. Click and hold for a pop-up launch menu of its entire contents.
Best tip in the article. Seriously, I don’t know why Mac OS X doesn’t come set up this way by default.
Schrumpt:
You can resize windows on every Mac I’ve ever used (pre-OS X too) by going to the lower right hand corner.
“Your start menu: Just drag your Applications menu to the right end of the dock and drop it there. Click and hold for a pop-up launch menu of its entire contents.”
Or download the freeware application, Himmelbar. It’s much faster than the click and hold plus it includes the Utilities folder.
Best tip in the article. Seriously, I don’t know why Mac OS X doesn’t come set up this way by default
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Um, Spotlight?
What’s the point of ‘looking’ for something, when you have Spotlight..
“Seriously, I don’t know why Mac OS X doesn’t come set up this way by default.”
Good call! Find EVERYTHING (utilities are in there too), and only one space taken up in the dock.
“What’s the point of ‘looking’ for something, when you have Spotlight..”
Because not everybody wants to type keys to get around their computer. Great method, but hardly replaces point-and-click on the app you want, and doesn’t work well for newbies and switchers. They’re looking for an app list. And spotlight isn’t always instant, and it doesn’t help if you make a typo.
Am I the only one who thinks that ‘hot cornering’ expose and dashboard is way better than using the F keys?
“I miss being able to resize a window by grabbing the side of the window. Mac users look at me like I’m nuts, but it seriously is the only thing I miss.”
I’ve been a (mostly) Mac user since the mid 80’s (I still have Word 3 on a floppy somewhere with Finder 5) and that really is the one thing that bugs me about the Mac interface. You can resize from any edge of a window, and that can be easier to do.
Outside of that one thing (hey even Mr. Softy can have one thing done OK), anyone I have sent the Mac way (once adding an optional 2 button mouse) has been very thankful.
I LIKE crack whores.
tack manager?
moiety5 – “Schrumpt: You can resize windows on every Mac I’ve ever used (pre-OS X too) by going to the lower right hand corner.”
Thanks moiety5, I realize that, actually used Macs in school before the district switched. The ONLY thing I miss is the fine tuning you get from grabbing the edges sometimes as opposed to the corner. If you never had it you’ll never miss it. Hopefully as more switch to OS X there will be a hack to allow this.
Triumph … you are hilarious. A compelling alternative to Outlook is the only thing I am waiting for to make my switch complete.
That is a sweet setup Macdude…
“Am I the only one who thinks that ‘hot cornering’ expose and dashboard is way better than using the F keys?”
To each his own, but I leave my hot corners off. I accidentally hit them too often. F keys are just as easy to me.
The best thing I’ve learned to use is app switcher by apple-tabbing. No need to actually click the icon you want once the switcher appears, just let go when your cursor is over top of the desired app. Makes switching apps uber easy.
Also, I always find it funny when a Windows users sees a Mac that has a big screen, and the windows don’t take up the whole screen. They get all bent and say “why doesnt it take up the whole screen?”. So I make the webpage take up the whole screen, of course the content doesnt get any larger, just for some reason they can’t grasp it when ther are other items on the page they can see. But filling the screen makes them happy.
“Um, Spotlight?
What’s the point of ‘looking’ for something, when you have Spotlight..”
You have got to be kidding?! Right?
Spotlight is two steps backward, in my book. The only thing it has going for it is the ability to search the contents of files. In most cases, it takes me longer to find stuff using Spotlight than using Panther’s Find capability.
that is true, unwanted hits to the hot corners can be a hassle, I also love the apple-tab shortcut, especially when qutting a bunch of apps at once, merely hit the Q right next to the tab button while holding the apple/command button, boom, boom, boom, all done.
If you accidentally hit a hot corner, just hit it again.
As for window re-sizing Apple should go one better and copy Photoshop’s Crop behaviour where you can scale from the centre by holding Option
macdude…you listen to kelly CLARKSON???
GAYYYYYYY.