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They say that once you go Mac, you never go back. Who says that exactly? Well... we just did. Making the move from the Windows world to the land of the Mac means making some adjustments in the way you work. Lucky then that butterscotch is here with this 10-part series to talk through the finer points of making the move to Mac.
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Today in part one of our ten parts series on switching from the PC to the MAC; we are going to look at the Finder. Now, the finder on the MAC is equivalent to Windows Explorer on the PC just to refresh your memory, here is a windows Virtual Machine with Windows Explorer running inside of it. And just does with Window Explorer, the finder on the MAC is use to manage your files and folders. You can see here on the right hand side I have lots of folders, now over on the left is an area called the Sidebar. The sidebar has a variety of divisions, for example there is a device so I can see my MAC’s hard drive a couple of external drive I have connected. Under shared I have things on my network that are shared. Now on there places I have folders that I want to be able to access quickly, now if I click on these tabs I can shrink up or drop down the thing is to give myself more or less room as needed. Now, there are number of view mode on the MAC and the one that we’re currently looking at is called Icon. The next possible mode is called List, and now what this does is it shows you a list of files and you see to the file name the date that was last modified, the size and the type of file that it is. So this is very similar to the detail mode in Windows Explorer. The next type of mode that available is called Columns, and what interesting about this is that is shows you things in progressive columns so if I click on this folder it shows me the content of that folder in the next columns. If I click on another folder it shows me the content of that folder in the next column. If I click on a file it shows me information about that file in the next column so a very interesting view mode. And then the last one and the file with the one is become most well known is called Cover Flow and this is the one that you’ve seen on the Apple commercials for the iPhone and the IPod Touch. Here are some scary pictures of me over the last year so will go back to icon mode and get out of that. If you want to see what programs are currently running on your MAC, you can press command tab. And you can cycle through the programs that you currently have running. And if you want to open a new finder window you can press command and it opens a window for you. So, that’s the finder on the MAC and that concludes part one. Today, in part two of your ten parts series on switching from the PC to the MAC we are going to look at the Apple menu and the taskbar. Now, on a MAC the finder which we discuss in part one is similar in some ways to the start menu in windows. And to refresh your memory here is a window virtual machine and here is the start menu. Or you can log off, turn off the computer and do other things. Now, on the MAC the Apple menu has mostly system related items on it calls you about this MAC and do software updates about you MAC OS ten software. You can access all of your system preferences, get things about the doc, locations and also you can do things like put the MAC to sleep and restart it, shut it down or log out. Now, another essential different in the MAC from the PC is the taskbar. Now in windows any program that you click on has a task bar that shows you all of the available options underneath it. So each program has a task the task bar built in, on the MAC that’s not true. You will see I was just use the VMware Fusion to show you the virtual machine and appear on the MAC taskbar it showing the tasks for VMware Fusion. If I click on finder you can see that the taskbar switches to show the commands available for finder. If I were to click on Firefox it would now display the command for Firefox. So in this respect the Apple is different from the PC. Over here on the right end of the task bar there are number of icons that are available. Some of these are default icons that will be on most MAC’s and others are programs that I’ve installed that are running up there. What you have like the spotlight search the day and time, the state of your battery if you’re on battery power, now this is for you wireless networking, sound, Bluetooth and so on. So, the Apple menu and the taskbar are slightly different from there counterparts and windows but once you get use to having the taskbars switch depending on what program you’re using it’s very useable. So that concludes part two. Today in our part three of our ten part series on switching from the PC to the MAC we are going to look at the Dock. Now here is the Dock down here, the Dock is a place where we can put icons to the programs you use most. So you can access them quickly, now the Dock is equivalent to the quick launch bar in Windows and so for your reference here is the window virtual machine and here is the quick launch bar down here. The Dock is a place where I put icons and programs that I use all the time like Firefox but at the same time the Dock holds icons and programs that are currently running. Now you can see the string of programs here all I have like a little light underneath them. Now light indicates the program is running even though it’s not visible. If I wanted to make one of those programs like Safari a part of the Dock, I can right click say keep in Dock. And then even I like to quit the program you can see the light will go out, the icons stays in the Dock. If I want to remove an icon from the Dock I could right click and say remove from Dock but a more fun away is to click the icon, drag it to the desktop and it disappears. There are other options from the Dock and to show you those I’m going to move up here to the Apple menus select Dock and then select Dock preferences. Now, you can see here that you can change the size of the Dock so you can make it larger or smaller. You can also turn in some different effects from minimizing, you can have the Dock at the bottom at the left or on the right hand side of the screen and you can also turn on magnification and for the biggest effect I have this at maximum and so as you move the cursor over the Dock it maximizes and magnifies all of the icons as you move on. The other thing that you can do with the Dock is hide it, and to do that you can go to the Apple menu, go to Dock say turn to hiding on and you can see here that you could also access some of the other options from this part of the menu. We turn hiding on and now Dock is gone it’s not on my screen but if I moving the mouse down there is my Dock. So that’s the Dock on the MAC and that concludes part three. Today in our part four of our ten part series on switching from the PC to the MAC we will look at basic window functions. Now the application windows have the same basic function in the windows as they do on the MAC we just control that a little bit differently. So, in order to show you these differences, I have a Windows XP virtual machine loaded in VMware Fusion and I have a MAC program text mate loaded here with the document. So in windows to maximize the program you click here on the top in the square and it maximize, to restore the program back to the original size you click in the same area takes it back. To minimize it you click the minus sign and then to close the program you click the red X in the corner. On the MAC it’s fairly similar, you click the green button to maximize, to restore it back to where it was you click the green button again. To minimize the program you click the yellow button, and to close the program you click the red button. Now on the PC each program has its menus built in to the top of that program so you can scroll through the menu bar and see the functions of that program. That’s not true on the MAC, and on the MAC the programs bar is up in the top in the taskbar so I have text mate highlighted so the text mate menu is visible if I switch to VMware Fusion, VMware Fusion menu is at the top. So it tackles back and forth depending on what program you want to highlight. Another factor to into MAC and the PC that many people aren’t aware of is that both flat forms are basically design so that you can use them without the mouse. To the use of command keys and so just touch on this a little bit, in windows in say Firefox or Internet Explorer you can open a new tab, a new window by hitting Control T. And you can close that same tab by hitting Control W. On the MAC you can open a new window by hitting command N and you can close it by hitting command W. On the PC you can use ALT F4 to close a program and on the MAC you can use command Q. So in this particular area of windows and window management a MAC and the PC are relatively similar and that’s concludes part four. Today in part five of our ten part series on switching from the PC to the MAC we are look at system preferences. Now, the system preferences on the MAC are equivalent to the control panel on the PC. And here I have a Windows XP virtual machine loaded, and I have control panel open as you can see all the different options that are available there. On the MAC you can access system preferences from the Apple menu and going to the system preferences or you can also click an icon on the Dock. Now, here is the four system preferences menu and it’s divided into sections that personal option, hardware, internet network system and other. Some of the things that you might use most often would probably be like desktop and screensaver. And here the screensaver tab is highlighted and you can see the different screensavers and pick belong that interest to you. You can click desktop and pick from a wide range of desktops that come with your MAC. Now when you’re ready to go to something out, this show all button is very handy because you click it and it takes you back to the full display of system preferences. So that why you in something like Dock you can focus and those options and when you’re ready to go back and fix some thing outs you can click show all and you see that whole things. Here is speech which you can tag a lines setting speech commands to control your MAC, click show all and go back to the full menu, time machine for backing up your MAC, here is date and time, account for having a different users to access your MAC, Bluetooth for managing your wireless devices and lots more. So as you can see the system preferences what you control every aspect of your MAC that I concludes part five. Today in part six of our then part series on switching from PC to the MAC we are going to look at the spotlight. Well on the MAC spotlight is equivalent to the windows search menu in windows. So, here to show you is a Windows Vista virtual machine and click here, go up to search and there is the window search box. As you can see if I start to take the word picture, starts to display results. The spotlight on the MAC work is quite similar, the spotlight can be followed up here at the upper right hand corner or you can also to your by pressing command space. Now, if you start to type in something said looking for a review I did the program called Quick mate for windows. As I start typing in the word click mate, you can see that I start getting results. And it will include anything that has the word click me in; this is a database backup from Quick mate. Here are award books that the word clicks me in it, email and messages. If want to see all the things that spotlight found that contain the word Quick mate, I click show all as you can see I have the fairly extends of mouse here, there is the zip archive I mention, the mail messages, some text documents and so on. The spotlight indexes your MAC so that you can find things quickly; you can also find the spotlight window in every new finder window. You could find a spotlight window in your system preferences and you can also find one in programs like mail so that you can search through your mail easily using spotlight. Spotlight also has some preferences and there are folders that you don’t want to be index by spotlight you can indicate those. So, that’s the spotlight on the MAC and that’s concludes part six. Today in part seven of our ten part series on switching from the PC to the MAC, we are going to look at the dashboard. Now the dashboard on the MAC is equivalent to the sidebar that first became available in Windows Vista. But the dashboard has been around for quite awhile. Now here is a window to the virtual machine and here is the sidebar. Now, the sidebar has tools that called Gadgets and this one shows system performance here’s a calendar, a clock, something for the stock market and you can download new gadgets that are interest to you from the internet. Now, on the MAC the dashboard can be activated in the variety of ways, one is to click on the icon is in the Dock. And two remove it you can click on the same icon, but the same token a newer MAC you can press F4, some older MAC use function F12 and it’s interesting the note that in Expose you can program which key activates dashboard. You can also determine which mouse key can activate dashboard and you can even set a hot corner if you let my mouse curser there is my dashboard. And here is my dashboard I have a variety of things to do some things so I know on the football game starts, several news thing as a calendar, my remember the milk, stock market and so on. Now if there is any item on there that I decide I don’t want I can change the things on my dashboard, click down here on this X and up comes the things for managing my widgets. There gadgets in windows and widgets in for MAC, so for example if wanted to add a new widget I could download widget from the Apple website or here is one that I already have for Facebook. Click that as active, I can bring it down to where I want it to be but the same token you can rearrange all of the widgets on your desktop so that there is where you want them. If there is a widget that you decide you don’t want, you can simply click the X and its remove. When you want to go out of this you can click the X, your dashboard still there to get out of the dashboard you can either press the same key that you use to activate it. Press the mouse button you use to activate it or you can click on the desktop. And that’s the dashboard on the MAC and that concludes part seven. Today in part eight of our ten part series of switching to from the PC to the MAC we are look at keyboard shortcuts. Now, both the PC and the MAC use keyboard shortcuts extensively both the operating and programs so that in My Applications isn’t necessary. There is quite interesting this need the similarity between the keys use on the MAC and the keys use that of PC. Well the primary keys on the PC for doing keyboard out of the control and all the keys. And the MAC there is a command key which the PC does MAC has and there is an option key which is also called the ALT key as well as a control of key. So, it’s interesting to see that on a MAC command N is equivalent to control N on a PC and that opens a new window. A MAC command C copies and control C copies on the PC. Command V paste on the MAC and control V paste on the PC. Command X cuts on a MAC and control X cuts on a PC. Now, to close a window on the MAC you use command W and on a PC control W. on a MAC you can prep by pressing command P and on a PC its control P. Now a MAC you can undo a previous action by pressing command Z that on a PC its control Z. On a MAC command A is use to select all where on as on a PC its control A. And on a MAC command TAB is use to cycle through all the program that are loaded and on a PC its ALT TAB. So, this is the keyboard shortcuts of the PC and the MAC extremely similar and that’s concludes part eight. Today on part nine of our ten part series on switching from the PC to the MAC we’re look at drive management. Now, the MAC handles hard drive and even directories it’s quite different than there on the PC. For example, there is no drive C on the MAC and instead you can name your hard drive. Now here is a Windows Vista virtual machine, you can see here is drive C and every PC since there have been PC that always a drive C there has to be a drive C and drive C can’t be change to any other drive letter. That’s not true on the MAC, on the MAC my primary hard drive and the boot drive is called Macintosh HD. And I could actually rename it to anything I want. You can also see that here I have a test to couple of external drives and because of my own background in PC I can name them MAC E and MAC F but I actually could name them anything I want it. Here is also noted over here, there is an eject button for this external drives that are connected. That’s because on the MAC it’s important that you properly eject a drive before you physically disconnect it from the computer. The same as also through of a CD or a DVD that’s in the drive which you can right click on and select the eject or you can press the eject button that’s on the keyboard. Over here under places you can see that there are folders that I put there so that they can be easily access by me like my editorial folder. And here’s an article there that I wanted to access, so this is how drives are handle on the MAC and that concludes part nine. Today in part ten of our ten part series on switching from the PC to the MAC we are going to look at expose and spaces. Now there really is no analogue in windows for either expose or spaces unless you’ve use some kind of third party software. Now, both expose and spaces can be configured in system preferences. But first I’m going to give you a quick pick and what they are. Now, expose a newer MAC’s is titled by F3 and on some older MAC’s you can use function F11. We tackle at you see here its spread out all of the windows that’s were on my desktop and it also shows me what they are, this is the XP virtual machine, this is the document, here is system preferences. Then I can click on the one I want and it moves to the front. Spaces which are available down here are virtual desktops and you can have up to 26 virtual desktops in your spaces. You can move things around to different virtual desktops or spaces and then you can pick the one that you want to go to. Now to the configuration, let’s look at expose first. In expose you can set active corner so you could see here I offset the upper right hand corner of my screen to turn on my screensaver. I set the lower left hand corner of my screen to activate dashboard and there are other options available as well. Down here you can also set all of the different hot keys so that they are what you want them to be. And down here you can also change the hotkeys and mouse keys that activate dashboard. Now, in spaces you can add or remove spaces so say I want to remove a row. It takes and shows me the new shape, here I have Firefox and I have Firefox sets to let it opens in every space so that if I’m working in space one and I move to the space six Firefox is still there. But iTunes however, I have iTunes set so it will always open in space two. VMware Fusion, I have set for space and by clicking here I can tell it to always open in space three. Down here you can change the keys that are use to activate spaces, spaces could be activated with function F8. And there are other keys that you can also configure. So, expose and spaces are really handy functions that help you to work smarter on your MAC and that concludes part ten of our ten part series.
