So, I just got a Mac...

[Chainsaw]

Still feeling my way around this thing....I think the hardware is a lot better than any PC I've ever gotten, but it's the small stuff that I still don't know how to work my way around.ÿ The one-button mouse is confusing, especially when I'm trying to watch porn and I can't right click to make the porn full-screen.ÿ I'm also adjusting to not using windows programs like media player (porn again) firefox and stuff like that...<div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Any tips for the Mac newbie on how to do some of the PC basic functions (namely not having right-clicking capabilities?)</div>

[Snacks]

<p>I can help you,</p><p>Return it and buy a PC!!!</p><p>J/K good luck with it. Everytime I have used a friends mac I always want to throw the mouse across the room. I guess you will get used to it. I will stick with my pc. I will be buying a new pc as soon as windows vista comes out in a few more days!!!</p>

[FUNKMAN]

<p><strong><font size="1">So, I just got a Mac...</font></strong> </p><p>damn it's sweet</p><p><img src="http://blogue.benefice-net.branchez-vous.com/archives/big_mac.jpg" border="0" width="288" height="238" /></p><p>Actually congrats and good luck with it! There's a few people on the board who swear by it. Yes they are homosexuals but this is a very diverse board!</p><p>I'm just fucking with ya!</p><p>Peace!</p>

[Chainsaw]

This mac I bought definitely made me lighter (about $2k lighter), but i think i'll like it....<div><br /></div><div>even though I bought one...I still hate those Mac commercials on tv...</div>

[furie]

they have firefox for MacOS
you need to get two things for your mac:
a two buttoned mouse and Microsoft Office for OSX

[Gvac]

<p>Holding the button down and not releasing it is the same as right-clicking, but I agree with Furie.&nbsp; </p><p>Get a normal mouse PRONTO!</p><p>The Apple mouse sucks. &nbsp;</p><p>Also, Safari will not work well with this site at all.&nbsp; Get either Firefox, Camino, or SeaMonkey. &nbsp; </p>

[alexc]

you can press control key and mouse click together to right click.

[Chainsaw]

Great success!ÿÿ

[reeshy]

Sorry to hear that......But now you can hang out with GVAC in a coffee shop and compare what you guys bought at Victoria Secrets!!!!

[Snacks]

<strong>FUNKMAN</strong> wrote:<br /><p><strong><font size="1">So, I just got a Mac...</font></strong> </p><p>damn it's sweet</p><p><img src="http://blogue.benefice-net.branchez-vous.com/archives/big_mac.jpg" border="0" width="288" height="238" /></p><p>Actually congrats and good luck with it! There's a few people on the board who swear by it. Yes they are homosexuals but this is a very diverse board!</p><p>I'm just fucking with ya!</p><p>Peace!</p><p>I wish when I order a big mac it looked that good. They usually are thrown in the box and you have to rebuild it just not to get it all over the place.</p>

[Gvac]

<strong>reeshy</strong> wrote:<br />Sorry to hear that......But now you can hang out with GVAC in a coffee shop and compare what you guys bought at Victoria Secrets!!!!<p>Laugh all you want, but I never lost my Firefox bookmarks on my Mac. &nbsp;</p><p>In fact, I've never had a computer problem (lockups, viruses, lost data, etc.) ever since I've been using Apple, which is since 1999.</p><p>So keep buying your Gates machines and dealing with the problems.&nbsp; You probably drive a GM too!&nbsp;</p>

[reeshy]

<p>No...I drive a Vulva....oooops...Volvo!!!!!!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>And I love you, greg!!!&nbsp;</p>

[Gvac]

<p>Love you too, Kev!</p><p>And I'm glad to hear you made a decent choice on your vehicle, at least. </p><p>I'll make you an Apple man yet.&nbsp;</p>

[reeshy]

Apples are too expensive!!!

[sailor]

<font size="2">dammit i thought this thread was going to start....'n cheese. </font>

[boeman]

<strong>Gvac</strong> wrote:<br /><strong>reeshy</strong> wrote:<br />Sorry to hear that......But now you can hang out with GVAC in a coffee shop and compare what you guys bought at Victoria Secrets!!!! <p>Laugh all you want, but I never lost my Firefox bookmarks on my Mac. &nbsp;</p><p>In fact, I've never had a computer problem (lockups, viruses, lost data, etc.) ever since I've been using Apple, which is since 1999.</p><p>So keep buying your Gates machines and dealing with the problems.&nbsp; You probably drive a GM too!&nbsp;</p><p>huh... funny enough, I've never had a problem with my PC's or my GM's... but then again, I know how to maintain them all.... </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>actually, strike that... I have problems with my beater GM, but it's my wife's former car, and was never maintained well.</p>

[rckiller]

Depending on what kind of Mac you have the two button problem is easy to solve. If you have a new intel macbook you can set the touchpad to respond to two fingers and operate like a two button mouse. When using two fingers you can also scroll.

[hafast]

If it came with a mighty mouse, just click on the right side of it.&nbsp; It'll know what you mean (it's like magic!).&nbsp; I'm not a complete Apple fanboy, but I definitely like my Mac better than any Windows machine I've ever had.

[SatCam]

Actually congrats and good luck with it! There's a few people on the board who swear by it. Yes they are homosexuals but this is a very diverse board!

gold

[furie]

Seamonkey?

[Gvac]

<p><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/" target="_blank">SeaMonkey</a> is basically Netscape without all of the AOL add-on crap.&nbsp; It loads fast as hell and still includes mail, composer, etc.&nbsp; </p><p>I use it on this board all the time. </p><p>It actually causes less problems than Firefox, too.&nbsp;</p>

[Reephdweller]

<img src="http://helpdesk.usu.edu/images/graphics/windows-logo.jpg" border="0" width="239" height="211" />

[furie]

<strong>Gvac</strong> wrote:<br><p><a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/" target="_blank">SeaMonkey</a> is basically Netscape without all of the AOL add-on crap. It loads fast as hell and still includes mail, composer, etc. </p><p>I use it on this board all the time. </p><p>It actually causes less problems than Firefox, too. </p><p></p>

I DON'T WANT TO STart over on another browser. i've got fiefox set up the way i like it. i guess i'll wait for seamonkey to get a little older

[whiskyriver]

<strong>reeshy</strong> wrote:<br>Apples are too expensive!!!
<p></p>
but well worth the money!!!!!

[Landblast]

<p>I'm not hung up on all that. I use my abacus for everything!</p><p><img src="http://i140.photobucket.com/albums/r37/pbrstreetgang1/abacus.jpg" border="0" />&nbsp;</p>

[Glück]

Software:

Adium - all around IM Client
TextMate - If you want to program, nice texteditor.
Firefox/camino - I like Camino lightweight its between safari and firefox
SixtyForce - N64 emulator...
Virtue - Multiple desktops.
iPodRip - rip music off of the ipod if you used it somewhere else.

http://www.serials.to - serials for textmate, and quicktime.

I cant live without Virtue, it lets you have multiple desktops you can go back and forth with.

I love all the Windows users saying shit about the mac. Might be the Unix underneath that scares them. Or is that I can play BF2 full blast on a 256mb card, somehow I don't need to spend $600 for a video card.

ohh did i mention its 1337 for H4X0r1N6 ?

Edit: Just get a two button mouse, I had to part with my one button because its just fasters with two buttons instead of using the keyboard...

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Gl�ck on 1-20-07 @ 11:39 PM</span>

[Glück]

NM

<span class=post_edited>This message was edited by Gl�ck on 1-21-07 @ 3:15 PM</span>

[Cannon]

<strong>Chainsaw</strong> wrote:<br />Still feeling my way around this thing....I think the hardware is a lot better than any PC I've ever gotten, but it's the small stuff that I still don't know how to work my way around. The one-button mouse is confusing, especially when I'm trying to watch porn and I can't right click to make the porn full-screen. I'm also adjusting to not using windows programs like media player (porn again) firefox and stuff like that...*&gt;<br />*&gt;<br />*&gt;Any tips for the Mac newbie on how to do some of the PC basic functions (namely not having right-clicking capabilities?)<p>&nbsp;I'm personally not a big fan of the &quot;Mighty Mouse&quot;...but you can configure the mouse any way your lil' heart desires by going to System Preferences, then Keyboard and Mouse. </p><p>&nbsp;Click on the Mouse tab and then pull the menu down over the right button on the mouse. Select &quot;Secondary button&quot; as your choice and you will now have full 'Right-Click' capabilities. This even carries over into Windows if you happen to be running Parallels.</p><p>&nbsp;If you download the Windows Media components for Quicktime, you can watch most Windows formatted videos in the quicktime player or in most browsers. </p><p>&nbsp;For Dvix and other formats, download the VLC player, it will try to play just about any format of media.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p>

[grlNIN]

<strong>furie</strong> wrote:<br />they have firefox for MacOS you need to get two things for your mac: a two buttoned mouse and Microsoft Office for OSX<p>&nbsp;I use NeoOffice. It saves the file as a word doc or spreadsheet in excel form, whatever. I'd rather have M.O. but there's not that huge of a difference as far as i can tell. </p>

[EffMeBoobs]

<strong>reeshy</strong> wrote:<br />&nbsp;GVAC in a coffee shop and compare what you guys bought at Victoria Secrets!!!! <p>It don't make you a bad person.&nbsp; Nothing wrong with that at all.&nbsp; Unless Gvac is wearing Victoria Secret-related items in said coffee shop.</p>