Aug 5 2007
Beware of the Mac…
Well now that my web-tools are ready for the new season of football and school, it’s time to brush up on the world of MAC. Yes Egham-ACS is all apple-mac and the last time I really touched one of those things was at University during my Architecture degree so it was time to brish off the cobwebs and see the differences. I only have at my fingertips a Mac OSX 10.2.8 which to apple aficionados as Jaguar, which is over four years old I believe.
It is actually weird how the simple differences are the most confusing, take the following:-
- Installing programs – I finally think I am getting the hang, but dragging the programs to the relevant area is a little weird…and I must say with the amount of revisions that the OSX operating system has it is incredibly confusing to find what programs both open source and paid for, work on which OSX O/S? Although I must already shout out to Version Tracker which does a great job of sorting the programs out in to which versions of Mac OSX that they work within!
- The right click, how weird is that …although with in minutes the Control-Click action becomes second nature…but….
- Opening programs and then it seems all the preferences on within the O/S rather than the program…lol…again something you quickly get used to.
More confusions will follow tomorrow when I try to install some other open-source programs to see if OSX Jaguar can stand up to my XP’s (yes very old as well) flexibility? Although I must say there are many bloggers out there trying to help those wandering over form Windows to Mac including the unofficial Apple Blog – which has things not to do which I am trying to follow. Who knows in 6 months time I will be a convert or might end up like Stephen Downes complaining all I can say at the moment is thank you Mozilla for making sure Firefox is available on the Mac!
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