Welcome the Newbie

iDOL said:
Welcome the Newbie, well yesterday I acquired myself a Macbook (late 2008 model).

I will be visiting this part of the forum for a few hints and tips. Most likely more in panic than anything else seen as this is new territory for me.

Chat more laters.
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Welcome, to the Mac Side. Once you go Mac, I don't know anyone who went back. :P
 
well thus far me been using it to surf and view things on the side, whilst I am in game on my main gaming rig.

Learning curve, too lazy to read now, How do I max the window, as in windows I only need to double click the title on top of window, whereas here it minimizes to dock when i do that.
 
iDOL said:
well thus far me been using it to surf and view things on the side, whilst I am in game on my main gaming rig.

Learning curve, too lazy to read now, How do I max the window, as in windows I only need to double click the title on top of window, whereas here it minimizes to dock when i do that.
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There's the little green + button on your page, it's next to the red and orange buttons. Click it until it expands, in the bottom right hand corner you will see 3 lines, click and drag to the width of your screen to make it full. That page should stay full size until you make it smaller again.

Hope that helps?
 
People who use macs have creative minds... Many people agree... What is the general consensus on this?

My uses:
Graphic design - Photoshop CS3 / GIMP
Work - iWork 09
Video and audio editing - iMovie + Audacity
"Gaming" - CS1.6 (Ciderized), Nexuiz, N Game, Quinn
Virtual Machine - VMWare Fusion 2 - Windows XP + Ubuntu 8.1
Best plugins - Perian, NTFS-3G, Flip4Mac
Web dev - iWeb 09
System Utils - MainMenu, Time Machine (Awesome!)

Theres a lot one can do nowadays... big misconception that theres compatibility issues with macs...

Once you get used to the system you can start playing around with Automator and AppleScript and such things... Its amazingly flexible!
 
Tsugaru said:
There's the little green + button on your page, it's next to the red and orange buttons. Click it until it expands, in the bottom right hand corner you will see 3 lines, click and drag to the width of your screen to make it full. That page should stay full size until you make it smaller again.

Hope that helps?
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I had that one already - been using that option the entire time, but used to the windoze one that just goes click and fullscreen whacks the entire thing. Just thought there was a one click wonder goodie like in windoze. cool np the learning continues.

I have so far not bothered with testing the other bootcamp windoze partition, was considering going win7 on it, but no need.

Staying on my OS X on there to learn, whilst confining myself to gaming and learning the win7 on my main rig.
 
Its funny but I can always tell the recent switchers by the way they want the browser window to fill the screen. :)

The green (or +) button is perfect for me - it makes the browser window just as big as it needs to be.
 
People who use macs have creative minds... Many people agree... What is the general consensus on this?
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The Mac is just a platform. I use it and I'm seriously uncreative!! Basically this is due to it's heavy use in the creative media - traditionally the Print & media sector were always big on Mac (Apple pioneered DTP tech) as well as Audio and Video.
 
bwana said:
Its funny but I can always tell the recent switchers by the way they want the browser window to fill the screen. :)

The green (or +) button is perfect for me - it makes the browser window just as big as it needs to be.
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Takes a quite a bit of adjustment for me, considering my normal display that I play on and do most of the other things on is my T260

There's nothing like double clicking on a window to maximize it and suddenly disover it zoops down to the dock, was quite funny the 1st few times for me.

Old ingrained habits.
 
bwana said:
Its funny but I can always tell the recent switchers by the way they want the browser window to fill the screen. :)
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So true. What is it about PCs that the user wants to see only the app they working on. I love seeing everything that's happening on my mac.
 
My macbook arrived today. It is a thing of beauty. :-)

Is the mail program included any good or should i download thunderbird?
 
GreGorGy said:
So true. What is it about PCs that the user wants to see only the app they working on. I love seeing everything that's happening on my mac.
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13.3" screen versus my 25.5" used to the T260 so it takes a bit of an adjustment.
 
I've been playing around with apple mail, but can't seem to find an option to display rss feeds within the actual mail window instead of opening up a separate browser. Everything else about it is great, though.
 
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