Mac Owners

[Central Bassman]

I just bought my first Mac last night, I like it so far. Just wondering if anyone can teach me a little about it and some of the cool stuff it can do???

[IFallsRon]

What model did you get? What kind of cool stuff are you after?

[RainyEye]

Go into the Apple web site and click on Support and then Discussions and you will find information to answer any questions you may have as well as many tutorials. Have fun!!

[Central Bassman]

I got the MacBook Pro. Any cool stuff!!! Teach me??

How do i take stuff off my dock that i wont use right away??

[Minnesota Fats]

To remove stuff from your dock, kick it into the water.

Seriously, click on it and hold the mouse button down. A menu will pop up and you can remove it from the dock.

[Central Bassman]

I got it thanks!!!

That Apple HSOforum has a lot of good information on it. WOW

[Musky_Madness]

Welcome to the family! I have a MacBook Pro too and absolutely love it! I wouldn't trade it for 3 PC's!

[btetzl50]

I've got a mac book (9 months) and love it. Of course I have used a mac for design work for a while but I love the touch pad, the 2 finger for a right click, scroll in either direction.. of course there's a plethora of other great features.

[Central Bassman]

I love mine so far!!! I have learned a lot by just playing around on it and by posting my questions.

[PierBridge]

lol

[Chode2235]

Welcome to the club. The "kick it into the water" wasn't far off the mark. You can drag the item off your dock (it turns into a puff of smoke) and then release it. Almost like kicking it off the dock.

OSX hints has a lot of really good hints and tricks to make those tiny tweaks to your mac.

The only thing I don't like is the inability to easily share media libraries between users.

[pulsar_nx]

For right click with the trackpad go to the system prefrences on the dock and click on keyboard and mouse and finally track pad. There will then be a option to leave two fingers on the trackpad to perform a secondary click.

This little trick cut me of my dependance of the mouse. It comes in handy.

[schweady]

Mac OS X The Missing Manual by David Pogue has a wealth of information. The Mac is so intuitive to use, but this book has it all covered in great detail and is crammed with little tidbits and shortcuts. Well worth having, even for folks like myself who have been using Macs since 1984.

[Down Deep]

I've been using Mac's for about 5 years. Check around your town for a Mac user group. When I got my first one I went to the group at a local college where I met several MacNerds that privided answeres to my many questions.

TS

[Central Bassman]

I have learned a lot already by reading on the Apple HSOforum. I have to download something so i can watch video's off websites. When i open fishing minnesota and it has the podcast and the video on the right side, i cant watch that. I tried watching the live weigh in today of the bassmaster elite series and it wouldn't work. So i will have to do some looking into that.??

[pulsar_nx]

If it's windows media files, I think there is a patch that allows them to work with quicktime.

[schweady]

It's called Silverlight. Definitely install it. Because it is from Microsoft, I was originally a bit leery, but it's actually very seamless.

[Central Bassman]

So you know where i can find that download Schweady??

[schweady]

Go to Microsoft's site and search for silverlight.

[Central Bassman]

I tried that already, did work!!! I also tried to down load windows media player and that didn't fix it either.?

[bassNspear]

should have bought windows again!!

[Central Bassman]

NEVER!!!! This is the only problem i'm having

[kwohl]

Try "flip4mac". The free version should take care of your problem.