I’m a Mac. Ta da!
My late birthday present and early Christmas present arrived a day early today! It was supposed to arrive tomorrow, and I almost didn’t get it today because I wasn’t home when UPS attempted delivery. Shortly after I returned home, though, I received a personal phone call from my UPS driver. (We’re on a first name basis because, well, I generally hate shopping in-person. It was a little weird to get a personal phone call, but whatever.) He suggested that I go to the local UPS store at 5:30, his scheduled stop, and sign for it there–which is exactly what happened.
Ben and I got home about the same time and celebrated together. I affixed a permasmile on my face and he celebrated by taking photos, laughing at my excitement, and making tacos while I oooohed and aaaaaahed and started to set things up. I somehow managed to tear myself away long enough to eat dinner.
And now, after all the updates have been installed and the battery is fully charged, I’m still setting things up and getting used to the new OS. Some things are beautiful and wonderful, but some things are still very awkward. (I already miss the Delete button that erases letters in front of the cursor–didn’t realize how much I toggle between the PC’s Backspace and Delete.)
I’m connected to our home server, so I have delightfully convenient access to all of our MP3s and photos and other shared files on our database. I’m going to take my time transferring files from my PC so that they’re in a more streamlined organization here on my MacBook.
My MacBook. Hee hee!
Of course I still had to do the crude partial desaturation of that photo with Photoshop on my PC… the teensy bit I’ve played with iPhoto made it crystal clear that I need/want Photoshop or at least GIMP.
fn + delete = PC’s “delete” key.
Also, if you like tap-click, go into the Mouse and Keyboard options in system preferences, and you can set to right-click and scroll with two fingers on the touchpad.
I switched from PC to Mac a year ago – I have the third-to-latest MacBook. And I love it!
Wow, thanks for the tips, Stephanie! I should have figured that there would be a workaround. Guess I need to spend more time searching the web for solutions to my problems.
The GIMP is really great. There are only a few things I miss from Paintshop Pro (my old stand by). A few things are hard to get a handle on. You might look at the one at portableapps.com. Unless it has changed recently, it is in some ways better than the standard version. I can’t remember how at the moment though. Since it does not write to your registry, you could have both installed, or keep the portable one on a thumbdrive for when you are on a strange computer.
Another great little program is IrfanView. Completely free. It handles a lot of batch rename/conversion/resize tasks. It is also a great media player for oddball files like flv’s (YouTube/Flash format).
Glad you got the machine. Since I toy with graphics and video I always felt I needed a Mac, but I am hopelessly Windows bound
Welcome to the dark-but-well-designed-side. Bwahahaha!
Wow! We are so on the same wave length. Congrats. You know how moms get together with their kids for playgroup? We should get together with our MBPs. Way better than kids.