This is the summary of some tips for new Mac users I have posted in my blog over the past 18 months. If you are new to Mac, I would recommend you read them, you may find some of them very handy, a few maybe quite fascinating.
Installing applications on Mac is somewhat different to the [...]

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One thing many switchers to Mac hate is not being able to access the menu via keyboard shortcuts. For example, in Windows Alt-F gets you to File menu item, Alt-T to Tools, Alt-V to View, and then you select from there.
There is no such thing on Mac, but there is something else, and not many [...]

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There is a quick and easy way to create a slideshow on your Mac without need to go to iPhoto, but rather straight from Finder. Simply navigate to the folder containing pictures, including external hard drive, USB drive or a CD/DVD, and select pictures you’d like to view in your slideshow. Then right-click (Ctrl-click) [...]

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This is one of the first things I have learned when I switched to Mac, and I thought it may be handy to any new Mac users out there.
Sometimes you would like to save the file to your Desktop. Once you click on File | Save as in your application menu bar, the save dialog [...]

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Ever had a dozen of icons fighting over one square inch of your screen? Jumping on top of each other, taking focus, mixing labels and looking like this?

Yes, it’s OS X default setting, slightly oversized icons with no particular order where to place each of them. Pretty messy, isn’t it …
Of course, there is a [...]

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In one of my previous posts (Full screen on OS X) I have written about Megazoomer, a very useful piece of software that lets you maximise your window to a full screen size.
Just press Command-Enter, and the front-most window grows to fill your entire display. Megazoomer was only available for PPC platform, but now there [...]

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