Vocation in the Valley

Mac Tip’s for Kevin

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

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

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A New Switcher

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

I just picked up my brother’s iBook and I’m almost as excited as he is to get it. I’m loading some software that he’s going to need like Quicksilver. He’s moving to L.A. next month so he wanted a laptop he could use for his work and was looking for less spyware and viruses. I’m going to help him make the switch. Hopefully, it won’t be too frustrating for either of us. You know how younger brothers are.

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Using ecto

Sunday, September 11th, 2005

I never thought about using anything than the web interface for blogging. But since typo doesn’t have trackback functionality from the web interface, I thought I’d look for something that could. I stumbled across ecto and I think it’s great. I never thought about posting pictures before, but the idea of an interface to iPhoto is cool. The Amazon link creation idea is awesome. I typically have to go to Amazon and look for the ASBN number, but you can get to items from the ecto. I bought 2 copies minutes after playing with it. Good looking software. I wanted to make sure development continues.

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Again

Saturday, September 10th, 2005

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