Mac

[cellio]

My Mac Mini arrived Friday, faster than I expected. In an act of will I did not punt my congregation's Friday-evening services, attendance at which required starting Shabbat two hours early, to play with it (and go somewhere else later). I did verify that a VNC server is running on my PC and reachable from my laptop, so I can skip the dual-monitor/keyboard/mouse-on-one-desk setup. So now, off to rearrange bunches of hardware and load up a new machine.

If you've got favorite Mac tips & tricks, sites, software, etc, please feel free to share. I've used an iBook (running Tiger) casually, but as a main machine it's new to me.

Comments

Re: Apps

[cellio]

Wait, your thumb? On my keyboard I would have to fold my thumb under my palm about as far as it can go to reach that key, and it's really hard to do that while hitting some other keys like 'v'. What keyboard are you using? (My current keyboard isn't going to be the final one; I can already tell its ergonomics are sub-standard. But I don't think these keys move around that much, do they?)

Re: Apps

[laurabee.livejournal.com]

Huh. I can reach the Option key if I reach all the way under my thumb. I usually rest my left thumb on the very left edge of the spacebar, so it's only a slight jump to reach the Command key.

I have the old school white keyboard that came with my Mac (not the silver laptop-key style ones that came with Willie's Mac). I agree on the new keyboards would be more of a stretch.

Re: Apps

[cellio]

I rest my left thumb below the center of the space bar, roughly between 'v' and 'b'. I suspect those typing lessons in fifth grade were my downfall -- who anticipated modern keyboards back then? :-)

Re: Apps

[http://users.livejournal.com/merle_/]

I use my thumb for it as well (M$ ergonomic keyboard), but I often do not keep my hands on the standard baseline. Trying it out it seems like I rotate my left hand clockwise a bit and drop it one row down and one column out towards the edge when doing lots of cut/paste operations.

I'll second the Synergy recommendation from above if you do want to use both computers at once easily, although a few people where I work prefer to run Xming on the Windows box and just use native XWindows to deal with the multiple monitors.