Hi, I definitely love my Mac. I had a surprisingly and incredibly easy transition, actually, but that might have been because I read through the entire VoiceOver manual and took notes. I didn't get very far with listening to any podcasts, so I really only had the manual to go on. In fact, I wanted the Mac so bad that they gave me a demo model, made it look brand new, gave me the DVDs and that was it. Of course, I faced a couple of interesting things with the authentication they had set. Short version is that the password they told me was incorrect, so I had to reinstall it all again as a newbie. Which was fine, really, because I didn't want all that junk. It went really smooth, though, and it only took an hour or so. It surprised me how much I'd actually memorized.
Regards, Nic Skype: Kvalme MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk AIM: cincinster yahoo Messenger: cin368 Facebook Profile My Twitter On Dec 5, 2009, at 11:37 PM, Rick Harmon wrote: > Hi Nic, > > Thanks for the offer for help and no the difficulties didn't deter me. I > don't have lots of time to spend on the mac right now but I'm watching the > list and reading things so that hopefully my next podcast will go smoother > than the first 3 have so far. The mac is really nice and I'm sure if I > hadn't spend years on windows the transition would go smootther for me. > > But overall I'm liking the mac and looking forward to seeing how it can do > the things I'll be wanting to do with it in the future. > > Rick > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Nicolai Svendsen > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 3:12 PM > Subject: Re: Introduction > > Hi Rick, > > Definitely glad you're trying the Mac. From listening to the podcasts, it > sounds like you had some interesting things happen during the install, for > sure. I definitely hope that isn't actually putting you off attempting to > fiddle around more with the system. I hope you're enjoying the experience, > and good luck playing with your Mac. Feel free to mail me off-list in case > there's something you'd like me to explain, to show you, or whatever. I'm all > for trying to help someone make the transition easier, as I switched in > August myself. > > Regards, > Nic > Skype: Kvalme > MSN Messenger: nico...@home3.gvdnet.dk > AIM: cincinster > yahoo Messenger: cin368 > Facebook Profile > My Twitter > > On Dec 5, 2009, at 8:27 PM, Rick Harmon wrote: > >> Hi Everyone, >> >> Some of you here probably know me from the Windows side of town. For those >> of you that don't know me, my name is Rick Harmon and I run the Blind Geek >> Zone website where i provide lots of free tutorials for Windows and >> primarily Jaws. I Just purchased a mac mini a couple of weeks ago and >> decided to do a series of podcasts from the perspective of switching over to >> the mac from a windows point of view. I know litterally nothing about the >> mac side of town and have been curious for a while now about using one. So >> far reviews have been quite positive and I plan to continue to do more >> podcasts as I learn how to do more and more with the mac. Anyone interested >> in listening to them, the links will follow. >> >> mac podcast 1: >> >> http://www.blind-geek-zone.net/audio/macpodcast1.mp3 >> >> mac podcast 2: >> >> http://www.blind-geek-zone.net/audio/macpodcast2.mp3 >> >> mac podcast 3: >> >> http://www.blind-geek-zone.net/audio/macpodcast3.mp3 >> >> Remember these podcasts are primarily geared to people curious about >> switching over to the mac from windows and are not really for experienced >> mac users, unless you want to have a laugh. >> >> Enjoy, >> >> >> Thanks for providing a great list for learning the mac. >> >> Rick Harmon >> >> >> --- >> Visit my webpage and podcast feed at: >> http://www.blind-geek-zone.net >> and my web Blog at: >> http://blind-geek-zone.blogspot.com/ >> >> Join the BGZ mailing list by sending a blank email message to: >> blindgeekzone-subscr...@yahoogroups.com >> and reply to the confirmation msg. >> >> Contact info: >> Email - rickhar...@sbcglobal.net & rhar...@blind-geek-zone.net >> Skype - rharmon928 >> Twitter - RicksterTheGeek and BlindGeekZone >> MSN - blindgeekz...@live.com >> >> -- >> >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email >> tomacvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@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.
