Some things for Apple beginners like me that have mainly used Windows before…
First strange thing is that there is no such thing as a program menu. Applications can either be found in the “Dock”, something like the windows Quck launch bar that is part of the task bar. In MacOS?, it’s all the same. If you launch a program from the Dock, (after it has been jumping a little bit because it’s so happy that you called it), you’ll find a small triangle below the icon (or next to it, depending on where you put the dock) showing that the program is actually running. Which, of course does not mean that the window of the program is in any way visible or can be made visible by hitting Alt-Tab, which is Apple-Tab here but at the same place as the usual Alt key so that’s pretty easy.
All (?) programs not residing in the dock can be found in the Finder, something like the Windows Explorer or the good old Norton Commander. On the other hand, there is a complete Linux beneath the surface, so other tools and programs (such as e.g. emacs!!) can just be called from a terminal window. I’ve not yet made up my mind how I will mainly access my tools…
Every running program brings its own menu bar at the top, but not at the top of the program window but at the top of the screen which confused me a little in the beginning because the windows are sort of detached from their menus, but one gets used to it. Some topics that might be covered in the future …
- Mac Preferences – what can I do here?
- Mac Startup – how can I reconnect my network drives???
- Mac Browsers – Firefox and Safari
- Mac Images – tools for creating and processing images
- iTunes
- Add Ons
- Mac Tipps