Mac Forum / General / Hardware / October 2004

Hi!

The GUI should be pretty intuitiv and since M$ made a pretty good (but
still crapy) copy of it, the way to handle it shouldn't be to hard for
sonemoe familiar with Windwos.

When working wth OSX i can give you one advice: use the /Application
directory for your applications and your Home directory for anything
else. Don't put your files to any other random location in your file
system!

If you are using a Handheld device or a mobilephone with sync
capability, use the Apple applications Mail, iCal and Adressbook for
your PIM-data to sync it with isync and your devices.

You should bookmark this URL:
http://www.versiontracker.com/

and use MacSoup as a newsreader.

By the way: don't get the strange idea to use the MS IE for webbrowsing.
It is too slow. Use Safari or Firefox.

Well, I surely forgot a lot to mention at this point, but maybe it helps
for starting in the right direction ;-)

Regards,
Martin

That would really depend on what kind of help and advice you're likely
to need. If you're familiar with Windows as a day-to-day user, you're
likely to run into a whole bunch of subtle differences that will
frustrate you early on. A common, if not typical, reaction to them is to
start complaining in a public forum about how Apple screwed up by doing
"it" differently than Microsoft did. If you make it through that stage,
you're actually likely to start noticing that those differences are
actually, in most cases, beneficial in some way. So my first advice is
to keep in mind the fact that "different from what I'm used to" doesn't
necessarily mean "wrong."

G

I really appreciate the advice. I am on a campus lan network system
that is over 95% pc and every virus, worm, trojan is constantly
trying to get past my firewalls (still not clmpletely sure what that
is or how it works; not improtant i guess). Anyway i'm just curious
if I need a virus protection program or set my security settings to
a higher level or what. Also When I browse through my own folders my
mac takes too long to process commands. Right clicking sometimes
takes over 30 seconds. I'm positive that it isn't supposed to take
that long. I guess this should be in the software section but I just
wanted to include it in my reply. Also I never even got to the stage
where the "different from what I'm used to means it's wrong." I knew
it was a different operating system and i was from the start
enthusiastic about learning it. Thanks again.

HC