Am I feeling lucky or that many people on the Internet are getting converted to Mac from Windows. Today, from Digg, I found the 10 tips for new Mac users, switching from Windows and it was a much needed shot in the arm. Let me archive the main points for future reference.
Forward Delete - Fn [...]
Deer Park is an unsupported version of the Mozilla Firefox highly optimized for the Mac platform (G4, G5 and the new intel-Mac). If you are on a Mac and is cursing for a sluggish Firefox, then this is the one for you.
Pure Mac has huge collection of freeware, shareware, trialware and commercial application for the mac. One of the cool thing I love about the website is their Pure Picks.
If you are looking for a free code/text editor but way lighter than Eclipse (I am not talking about serious programming/coding yet) and a little advanced than Textedit (comes along with OS X) and TextWrangler (free), then Smultron is the one. This comes with its own ActionScript Syntax File.
Some of the features are
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I was a loyal customer of FeedDemon (Windows). When Newsgator took over FeedDemon and Topstyle, FeedDemon customers were given Newsgator Inbox as gifts (I have forgotten how was it, but I got it because of FeedDemon).
When I shifted to Apple Mac recently, I was looking for an alternative which should be at par with either [...]
Letterbox is a plugin for Apple’s Mail that takes advantage of your widescreen monitor. It rearranges the interface into three vertical columns, so the message pane is to the right of the message list, rather than below. Especially on widescreen Macs, this layout makes better use of your available screen real estate, and gives emails [...]
UNO, a Latin word that stands for “as one”. UNO is a theme that brings the sunken unified toolbar/titlebar look & feel to every single window on your system (cocoa or carbon, metal or aqua and already unified windows as well). UNO’s main goal is to enhance aqua interface consistence, by making all elements look [...]
Coming from the world of Windows, I found Trillian to be one of the best Collective Instant Messenger which can connect to Yahoo! Pager, MSN Messenger, AIM, ICQ, IRC. The pro version (Pro is the paid version) sport the Rendezvous option where you can have server less messenger within a close intranet. When I shifted [...]
I have recently been trying to shift to the Mac and I am sure I am already a Mac Convert. Instead of lambasting with articles about Mac, the chronicles of shifting, the software changes, et al, on my primary site, I have decided to write my experiences on a separate site dedicated to the Apple [...]