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So, I uh... bought a mac. WTF do I do?

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rarely_upset:
Useful Apps:
$ - Blotter - Similar to Rainmeter, puts 7 days of your iCal calendar over your desktop.
$ - CleanMyMac (clears caches/plist (preference) files that don't get deleted if you drag-to-trash to get rid of programs)
Free - MPlayerX on the App Store - Media player, works a charm.
Free - Skype
Free - uTorrent - UI is worse for skype and utorrent.
Free - Appfresh checks all your installed applications for updates.
Free - Caffeine stops the computer from automatically dimming the screen or going to sleep if you want it to stay lit for something
Free - Colloquy - IRC
Free - F.lux (also available on windows) changes screen lighting temperature or something, much easier on the eyes at night.
Free - Stuffit Expander - the native archive utility only does ZIPs.
Free - Seashore - basically MS Paint.
Free for 10.6 and earlier, $ for Lion - Growl - notifies you when things happen. works with pretty much everything, definitely worth checking out.
Free - Quicksilver - launches applications. You can use cmd+spacebar to launch from spotlight, but quicksilver is much more powerful if you take the time to learn to use its modules.
Free - Cloudapp - Cloud sharing. useful.
Free - Perian is the only good codec pack for quicksilver that I've found.
Trialware - NTFS for Mac OS (by Paragon) - allows you to write on NTFS partitions.

There are also a lot of free dashboard widgets - iStat Nano or Pro are must-haves, Stickies Plus is also great.

Multitouch is really neat, different apps handle it differently so experiment!
Two finger slide is usually scroll, moving them together/apart zooms. Three fingers is forwards/back. Four fingers is in the OS - Sideways is like alt+tabbing (or cmd+tabbing now), upwards goes to your desktop, downwards shows you all your windows.

cmd+shift+3 takes a fullscreen screenshot
cmd+shift+4 lets you click and drag over what you want - you can then hit spacebar to take a shot of a window or widget, shift and alt let you move what you've dragged.
cmd+alt+escape lets you force kill applications that have become unresponsive.
cmd+h hides the application - the only evidence that you're using it is the dot that appears on your dock.

Go through the system preferences and check everything out, there are some cool things. I really like the 'active screen corners', expose, and spaces.

metro.:
To whomever said they have to click to change tabs on Chrome, ctrl+tab

rarely_upset:
ctrl+shift+tab goes in the other direction!
ctrl/cmd+[1-8] takes you to the corresponding tab, ctrl/cmd+9 takes you to the last tab (far right), ctrl/cmd+0 resets the page to 100% zoom.

Remak:

--- Quote from: rathoriel on January 12, 2012, 12:51:45 AM ---
--- Quote from: Remak on January 11, 2012, 06:33:26 PM --- (click to show/hide)The best thing is now I use chrome with three windows in full screen and use the swipes to switch windows. So much faster than clicking tabs with the mouse.

- Three fingers sideways to switch programs/applications/windows
- Two fingers sideways to go back for forwards in browsers/finder windows/etc
- Three fingers up to show all programs (if you get lost and are trying to find an open application with the just normal three sideways)
- Four fingers pinched brings up a screen filled with application logos and names like on the ipad. Use two fingers to move between screens
(click to show/hide)(Each screen looks like it holds 40 logos. This might be able to be changed in settings if you want more per page. But I don't want that)
 and you can start up a new application from anywhere if you want to do something. No need to go back to finder and open the applications folder.  ;D
- A bunch of other cool swipes that I haven't bothered to use. There's something for zooming in on any content, I don't remember it since I never use it.


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does the middle finger do anything ;)

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.:|:. :P

fohfoh:
Def may look into it when I have time to toy with the mac.

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