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

[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? :-)