Rick, as a very recent switcher myself, I know what you are dealing with in learning to use the Mac. Aside from learning a whole new set of commands, there are also some concepts that need to click in your head to successfully use the Mac. The more time you spend with it, the faster things will click of course. I think for myself, I started with the E-mail program. Before I bought my Mac, I did a lot of research and took notes so that I could get up and running as quickly as possible. I hated the keyboard that came with my iMac, so I decided to use my old faithful Logitech keyboard from the Windows side and I am very glad I did that. I love being able to use my number pad to do keyboard commands with the Mac. It makes things so much easier. I could never have done it without this list and Mike's series of podcasts on the Mac. The strangest concepts coming from the Windows side were interacting and the different way the cursor moves on the Mac. It took me a long time to get straight in my head now when you move your left arrow, it jumps you to the left of the character and when you move the right arrow, it puts you to the right of the character. Another concept that was sort of weird was ejecting a disk image when you install a program with command E. These were things we didn't have to do on the Windows side, but once you wrap your mind around these concepts, you'll be off and running with the Mac. Good luck, and keep us posted on your progress.. On Dec 5, 2009, at 5:37 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.
