Hi The home/end keys on the Mac have different functions than they do on Windows. To move to the beginning or end of a line on the Mac, use command+left arrow and command+right arrow respectively. Also, for top and bottom of a document or text field, it's command+up and command +down.
Daniel Rowe wrote: > Hi all. > > Yes, I bought an imac last friday. So far, I love it. it's amazing how > fast it is to get things done, and*most* things work fine. > > I have my phone sinced with iCal and address book, been doing a bit of > web brouzing with safari, used front roe, gotten voice over saving my > settings on a usb drive, all the usual stuff. > I still need to add my music to iTunes though. most of the ID3 tags in > my mp3s are messed up. some of them have both the artist and title > duplicated in both the artist and title fields. I'll have to run them > through mp3 tag studio on windows first as nearly all the file names are > done as artist - title.mp3, so that should sort mmost things out. . > But can itunes fill in all the other tags? > > one thing I can't get to work is e-mail. I've switched both my phone > and pc to imap with no problems at all. but the mac doesn't want to > know. the incoming server has an invalid certificate and it can't > connect to the smtp server. it's really frustrating. > I have e-mailed the tech support guys so they should hopefully have an > answer. > > I still keep forgetting how the cursor works. I understand what's > happening, I just keep reverting to windows habbits. I'll get it > eventually. then I'll be expecting windows to behave like the mac. > > While editing text on a webpage, say in a reply on a message board, the > home and end keys don't seem to do what they're supposed to do. also, > if I do vo shift m to bring up the menu of misspelled words, it clicks > on the wrong word. do I have to move the vo cursor onto the word I want > to change? I was just using the arrow keys before. > > is there a command to read the current time rather than hopping over to > the status menus? I know it's possible. > > To whoever it was who uses XMarks on the mac, did you try it on snow > leopard? I downloaded the snow leopard package, ran it and it says that > it requires leopard. I'm running 10.6.1. > > I'll also need to get it to write to ntfs drives, say if I want to copy > some music I bought in itunes over to my windows machine,. > > I'm planning on buying superdooper or whatever it's called. that sounds > like a fantastic backup solution. > > Finally, has anyone had any luck using the dashboard? I can bring up > the different widgets ok, they're just confusing to wirk with. > particularly the weather one. > > I'm sure I'll come up with more questions to keep you lot busy. :) > so like I said, if it wasn't for it not playing ball with my e-mail > provider, I'd be totally happy and for most things, I can see myself > using the mac exclusively. > > Bye for now, > Dannie --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
