Ok, I am now sick of just using my mac to look at emails, browse forums and take random photos in photo booth! I finally get around to copying my vast music collection onto itunes (which I am very much accustomed to as I have used it for ages as my primary music player.... although I really do prefer amarok for linux), and install iworks and microsoft office 2004. I also install firefox, as I am over safari, and opera keeps timing out...
The interesting thing about installing things on the mac are that instead of clicking an 'install' button, you drag an icon onto a folder :P A it takes no time at all to install!
I have also discovered the finder application... I can't believe I have had this mac for around 2 weeks without it!
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Friday, January 11, 2008
My new mac discovery: Expose!
I have been timidly moving into this new 'world', and have only grasped how to use safari, and photo booth :( Additionally, I am having trouble moving between different windows, which is really quite frustrating as I am used to the minimised windows I became accustomed to in xp and ubuntu. FH points out to me that I simply need to set up expose! I simply move my curser to the bottom right corner of the screen, and all my windows pop up in front of me, which means I can simply select the relevant window!
I then go on a windows computer at university, and look like a complete idiot as I persevere with attempting to switch between windows by moving the pointer to the bottom right hands corner...
I then go on a windows computer at university, and look like a complete idiot as I persevere with attempting to switch between windows by moving the pointer to the bottom right hands corner...
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
The long uphill climb...
Well I have put it off for long enough; I stop simply staring at this gorgeous piece of equipment and decide its time to begin the 'mac' journey!
I am greeted by a simple installation process where I input all the relevant info, and within a few minutes I am ready to go! Its a strange experience, as when I re-installed xp on my old computer it took roughly enough time to do my household chores and go for a jog around the block! I am a bit put off as the OS looks slightly different to the ones in the store, until my lovely fiance (I will refer to him as FH for simplicity), pointed out that I still had to install leopard myself!
So I pop in the cd, and this time I am greeted by this short video (which I think was surrounded by quite a bit of hype when leopard was first released), and even watching this you are in awe of the steps apple has gone to making the mactop 'nice' to use! After the video is over, you are brought through the installation pages which are 10 times easier to use than the previous Tiger OS, and within moments I hear the gentle "logging in" tune (which is far superior to that of the XP log in noise, which is frankly the most irritated cluster of notes microsoft could have come up with!).
Now for the overwhelming bit: my mac is completely different in functionality to my previous computer running xp and linux! After much complaining and whining, I finally log into safari to log onto my emails. I then spend a bit of time taking photos in photo booth: the new moving background keeps me occupied for a while! But one thing is for sure: I have alot to learn about my new mac before I can use it to its full potential.
I am greeted by a simple installation process where I input all the relevant info, and within a few minutes I am ready to go! Its a strange experience, as when I re-installed xp on my old computer it took roughly enough time to do my household chores and go for a jog around the block! I am a bit put off as the OS looks slightly different to the ones in the store, until my lovely fiance (I will refer to him as FH for simplicity), pointed out that I still had to install leopard myself!
So I pop in the cd, and this time I am greeted by this short video (which I think was surrounded by quite a bit of hype when leopard was first released), and even watching this you are in awe of the steps apple has gone to making the mactop 'nice' to use! After the video is over, you are brought through the installation pages which are 10 times easier to use than the previous Tiger OS, and within moments I hear the gentle "logging in" tune (which is far superior to that of the XP log in noise, which is frankly the most irritated cluster of notes microsoft could have come up with!).
Now for the overwhelming bit: my mac is completely different in functionality to my previous computer running xp and linux! After much complaining and whining, I finally log into safari to log onto my emails. I then spend a bit of time taking photos in photo booth: the new moving background keeps me occupied for a while! But one thing is for sure: I have alot to learn about my new mac before I can use it to its full potential.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Time to get a new laptop!
Today is the day I buy a new computer :P My previous dinosaur kicked it a few months ago, and now I have been using a sorta hand me down computer which has been making strange noises lately! I also want to take it into lectures so I don't have to write down notes only to type them up later (I'm not just wanting one so I can sit in lectures and look pretentious :P)
But what do I choose? Do I go with a "PC" laptop, preinstalled with vista ('shudder'), buy aforementioned PC laptop and download linux (which I had installed on my previous computer, however open office and myself never got along), or branch out into the world of the "mac" top!
After some initial research, numerous stops at the local online computer store and drooling over the sexy macbooks on the apple site, I have decided to go check some out in the flesh!
My initial experience with the "Vista" laptops is quite disappointing. It takes forever to boot up, and programs keep crashing: not a good first impression! I reason that I could format and install ubuntu, but on my previous computer I found myself booting into XP for certain things so there could be problems here (I could always get used to Vista, but why the hell should I!).
So off to the mac store I go to check out the macbooks! Ofcource, everyone has been to see the macs in the macstore, even to take stupid photos in the photo booth app (well, I know I have!). I have a quick play with one of the macbook pros, and the first thing I notice is how quickly everything loads and how simple to use they are. Plus they come preinstalled with Leopards the new Mac OS! The sales guy gives us a good deal (after I tell him I could easily shave a few hundred by shopping online, so I am going to do just that if he doesn't), and I arrange to come back the following day with the cash! I am on the enlightened path of the mac user!
But what do I choose? Do I go with a "PC" laptop, preinstalled with vista ('shudder'), buy aforementioned PC laptop and download linux (which I had installed on my previous computer, however open office and myself never got along), or branch out into the world of the "mac" top!
After some initial research, numerous stops at the local online computer store and drooling over the sexy macbooks on the apple site, I have decided to go check some out in the flesh!
My initial experience with the "Vista" laptops is quite disappointing. It takes forever to boot up, and programs keep crashing: not a good first impression! I reason that I could format and install ubuntu, but on my previous computer I found myself booting into XP for certain things so there could be problems here (I could always get used to Vista, but why the hell should I!).
So off to the mac store I go to check out the macbooks! Ofcource, everyone has been to see the macs in the macstore, even to take stupid photos in the photo booth app (well, I know I have!). I have a quick play with one of the macbook pros, and the first thing I notice is how quickly everything loads and how simple to use they are. Plus they come preinstalled with Leopards the new Mac OS! The sales guy gives us a good deal (after I tell him I could easily shave a few hundred by shopping online, so I am going to do just that if he doesn't), and I arrange to come back the following day with the cash! I am on the enlightened path of the mac user!
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