Now let’s talk about the Desktop… Or rather, desktops. You see the Macbook has this feature called Spaces, it also has Expose, Dashboard, and something called Spotlight. Between these 4, making your way around the computer quickly, easily, and effectively, is a simple task. That is, if you use all the tools at your disposal. […]
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The Keyboard
The first time you look at your Macbook keyboard, you will notice a few differences. There is now a Command key where Ctrl used to be. There is still a control key but only one – on the left side. The Alt key has become the Option key with the “option” to use it as […]
The Touchpad
The Macbook touchpad is really an interesting piece of work. Its mode of operation is fundamentally different than that of a Windows touch pad. In fact, it may be more accurate to call it a finger pad because everything you do with it seems to revolve more around the number of fingers on the pad, […]
Navigating the Mac
This right here is where the trouble is, and also where I believe the great disconnect occurs between Mac and Windows users. If you are a Windows user like I was, you’ve probably wanted to use a Mac out of curiosity before. You’ve also probably gotten the opportunity to do that via a friend, or […]
Terminal
A few months ago, I could not imagine ever willingly using the Windows XP command-line for anything signficant. By ever, do I mean ever ever? Forever ever? Eternity and beyond not just the end of this song? Yes. I certainly do. Now, Terminal (The Mac command-line) is a startup item on my Macbook. It runs […]