Mac Tip’s for Kevin

Here are some of the things I’m going to tell my brother about in his switch to the Mac

• The Dock – I forget about this sometimes because I rarely use it. But it is there and big by default
• Installing applications – Most apps don’t have installers which is strange when you come from Windows
• Removing applications – ottid (ditto in reverse
• Quicksilver – Might be too power user-ish for him, but we’ll see
• Spotlight – How do you find stuff on the Mac?
• Expose – What to do with all those open windows
• iDVD – The iBook 12″ doesn’t have a DVD burner so I don’t think he’ll want it and removing it will save almost 1.5 gigs of disk space
• GarageBand – He’s not really a musician and that’s another 2.5 gigs of space
• Azureus – It’s a tool
• iWork – He wanted this because he saw a Pages presentation. He doesn’t know PowerPoint, I don’t think. I haven’t used pages much, but I’m guessing it’s easier that PowerPoint.
• Widgets – Apple actually hides a lot of stuff these days. Who would have thought F12 would be useful on the Mac.
• iMovie – See if he’ll be using it
• iTunes
• iPhoto
• Safari
• VLC – Better than QuickTime MoviePlayer for playing movies
• Mail – Don’t know if he wants to just stick with webmail