Comments on: Shiny, New and Requires a Little Learnin’ – First Time on a Mac

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 17:43:43 +0000

LMK is great — cheapest Apple prices I’ve seen so far locally. True, they’re usually PhP 10k more expensive than purchasing from the US, but shipping and taxes will amount to approximately that.

Other tips, well the Expose functions:

Press F9 to bring up all open apps in a neato tiled-screen interface that lets you choose which window to bring up (sort of the Alt-Tab for Mac OS X).

Press F10 to bring up all the open windows for that particular application only (i.e. whichever app is on the foreground).

Press F11 to access the desktop. Pretty useful especially if you’re dragging and dropping something.

Press F12 to access your widgets.

As for the mouse, of course, the right-click’s equivalent is the long click/press or the control-click. If you were on a desktop Mac, you could replace the mouse with the Mighty mouse (left and right clickers, squeezer, roller, scroller, everything!), but since you’re using a laptop, a mouse would be somewhat of a hassle, so you have to make do with your one-button touchpad clicker.

Congrats on your purchase, by the way!

By: jun.asis

jun.asis — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 13:33:41 +0000

@digimatgirl – I got it at around 61K (got a PC loan from the office). Call Marci of LMK Commercial.

@j.angelo – Thanks for the tip.. Will try it out. Other tips please? Specially with Garageband and podcasting.

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:50:53 +0000

And, of course, the one-button mouse!

By: J. Angelo Racoma

J. Angelo Racoma — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 11:50:23 +0000

Safari has tabs. Try Command-T.

Or you can use Firefox for Mac. Same, Command-T

Basically, that’s one of the things that confuse PC users when using Macs-the keyboard commands.

Otherwise, I think switching across platforms is not so difficult.

By: digimatgirl

digimatgirl — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 02:27:18 +0000

Wow. You are so lucky! I have been drooling for that ibook for so long. May I know how much did you bought that?

Well, I also came to dream about having a Mac. Because, Mac can be only affected by 2 known virus vs XP that may be affected by thousands of virus. That is how I understand by this review from Softpedia. And plus, I really LOVE so much those breath-taking graphics of Mac. Though I heard some feedbacks that Mac is too basic.

Hmn. I wonder why pirated XPs were widely available while I never seen a pirated Mac OS X before.

And hey you can check anyway the Softpedia.com for the cool programs for Mac. **drool drool