Mac Beginner's Guide

[Diatribe]

As you might know, I've been busy reorganizing the Mac Beginner's Guide and have been adding a lot of new stuff. It's almost finished now from the content pov but there still are a lot of empty links, especially to a lot of guides.
I'm going to tackle some of them in the next 1-2 weeks but I cannot do them all. I'd appreciate it a lot if there'd be some people willing to help with those guides and fill in the holes of the empty links.
You can see the missing ones in red: Mac Beginner's Guide

Thanks for all who have helped with the guide and those willing to help more.

 

[mainstreetmark]

Heh - Let me introduce you to the "Preview" button.

 

[fayans]

Nice work, Diatribe. It surely helps the beginners a lot with all those info. Thumbs-up.

 

[Diatribe]

Heh - Let me introduce you to the "Preview" button.

Huh?

Nice work, Diatribe. It surely helps the beginners a lot with all those info. Thumbs-up.

Thank you

 

[fayans]

Heh - Let me introduce you to the "Preview" button.

Is "Preview" button =2 "Guides"?

 

[Artful Dodger]

That looks great, this will be very nice for people to read/learn from as a big thanks is in order

 

[Diatribe]

That looks great, this will be very nice for people to read/learn from as a big thanks is in order

Thank you. I am still working on the guides that I linked to and if I have to do them all by myself it will take a while but it should help a lot of people already as it is.

 

[arn]

Hmm.. diatribe, you mind if I move the "This article is based on forum post" off or perhaps at the bottom of the guide?

I don't like that template in general... find it very distracting.

arn

 

[Diatribe]

No I don't mind if you move it. Not at all.

 

[Diatribe]

I said "move" not "remove"...

 

[HexMonkey]

I don't like that template in general... find it very distracting.

Is it the idea behind the template that you don't like, or just its appearance/prominence?

If it's the latter, it does appear to stand out a bit. Moving it to the bottom of articles sounds like a good idea, other than that are there any changes to the template itself that you'd suggest? Do you prefer the original version (without the colours or logo)?

 

[arn]

Is it the idea behind the template that you don't like, or just its appearance/prominence?

If it's the latter, it does appear to stand out a bit. Moving it to the bottom of articles sounds like a good idea, other than that are there any changes to the template itself that you'd suggest? Do you prefer the original version (without the colours or logo)?

I added it back to the bottom.

I think it's distracting at the top... and ends up bringing too much attention to an old version of the page. I think the logo-less version might be better, to give credit but also let you read past it more easily.

arn

 

[arn]

I changed the template back to the simpler one and added it back to the top of the beginner's article.

thoughts?

arn

 

[Diatribe]

Looks good to me. It's unobstrusive enough to not draw too much attention to the old post. I like it.

Btw, to avoid just that confusion I already had edited my old post to reflect that the thread is basically dead.

 

[HexMonkey]

I agree, it looks good. Much more discreet while maintaining its original purpose.

 

[mainstreetmark]

Huh?

The day you were working on it showed something like 15 sequential changes to that article. I assumed you were making a change, saving it, reviewing it, then editing it again, versus just previewing it.

 

[Diatribe]

The day you were working on it showed something like 15 sequential changes to that article. I assumed you were making a change, saving it, reviewing it, then editing it again, versus just previewing it.

Yeah, the thing was that I was at work that day on a ****** Windows PC. Since I had some time in between meetings and didn't want it to be lost due to a crash, I edited in spurts. Some of these were screw-ups though, you're right.

 

[whiteangel777]

hello,

would it be possible to make a pdf from all these guides? I`m not able to be online all the time. downloading all these things would make it easier for some.

whiteangel

PS: the idea and the hole guide is a realy great. thx.

 

[Eraserhead]

Yes go to File==>Print==>Save as PDF on your Mac.

 

[whiteangel777]

hm.. could have been my own idea... thx.

 

[poushag]

I will try to help as soon as I get credit for my 5th posting. I would really like to see a guide helping folks who have switched from PC. I think my biggest pet peeve is still the home/end key behavior. I am hoping under Leopard that I can finally get all the apps to cooperate with DoubleCommand reconfiguring home/end to be line home/end instead of document home/end. (I think possibly the carbon apps lingering under Tiger are not compatible with it.)

 

[BioCore]

I really like this guide! Since I am new to the Mac world, it really helped me out a lot in understanding how some things work and getting to know some shortcuts (I love using keyboard shortcuts a lot!). Thanks a lot Diatribe!

 

[Jules22]

can someone help? PLEASE

K i am having so much trouble figuring out how to use this mac rumors site, and i have a question that i would love to have addressed. I just got a new ipod nano (the one that plays movies). I previously owned the first version of ipod nano and now trying to start-up my new ipod I get stuck in the terms and agreemant page in itunes and for some reason even though i click that i agree with the terms and conditions it will not go on to the other page to register my new ipod. can u please tell me if this is because i still have my old ipods itunes on the computer, or if my page in itunes is just not showing me all i need to see for registering? PLEASE someone help i have had my ipod for 2 days and cannot get any tunes on to it. u can email me at shag_jewels@hotmail.com. thanks in advance!

 

[colercoaster]

This guide has helped out a bunch. Thank you so very much for taking the time and putting it together. I'm a recent convert from the world of Gates, glad to be no longer fenced in

Once again, thank you.

 

[madcat2]

Trying to stream Sirius Radio

I am brand new to iMac and am swimming through mounds of new information. I'd like to stream Sirius Radio, and I am told by its site that I need to attach "application/x-mplayer2" Does anyone know how to do this? If I'm not in the right thread, maybe someone could direct me. Thanks.