Few random windows > mac questions..

Look at this too: http://www.apple.com/support/switch101/

You don't. Or post #11: http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=586186​

MenuMeters and iStat Pro and atMonitor​

Really? App Store is ... Go to Apple and look for yourself: http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/apps-and-utilities.html
And they are not bloatware, they are part of Mac OS X, but you can delete them from the Dock, as it will not delete them from the Applications folder.
To uninstall applications:

from Best way to FULLY DELETE a program?​

Please see above, and there is no C:\ "drive" on Mac OS X, those letters are reserved for Windows. Didn't you say you had a Hackintosh the last seven months?
Btw, the Dock is just a placeholder for shortcuts, or aliases as Mac OS X calls them. Like the Windows task bar, from which you can drag something and it is still actually there as you haven't removed the actual application, just an alias to it.​

Drag the application first into the Applications folder, then either start the application from inside the Applications folder (not from the mounted volume you dragged the application from) and right click on the Dock icon and select "Keep in Dock". Or if you don't want to start the application to do this, go to the Applications folder, where you dragged the application to and drag the application to the Dock.
Dragging it from the mounted disk image will only cause problems, as the Dock "looks" for the disk image to start the application from.​

Yes, if they come in a Disk Image (DMG). But it is not an installer, it is a package, like a zip file for example, just looking differently.
It mounts and behaves like an external HDD or USB Flash Memory Stick and you copy from it or run an installer from there.
A Windows .exe is an application in itself and normally runs an installer if it is an installation .exe. The advantage of Mac OS X and drag and drop of applications is that there is no REGISTRY to bloat up.​

And yes, running Windows on a MBP will discharge the battery faster due to less efficient hardware and OS communication. ​

Do what you want to do. A Software Update might be a good idea, but it seems you are up to date, when you have the App Store already installed, which was released with the 10.6.6 update at the beginning of January.​

Go to Finder > Preferences (CMD+,) >> Sidebar >>> Hard disks.
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And please take a look here: Helpful Information for Any Mac User

 

Good journey anyway and welcome. Btw, older versions of Mac OS X (10.4 Tiger and 10.5 Leopard) behave quite the same.

 

Mounting a DMG is kinda like inserting an install disk. Most apps don't require installers and you just drag and drop from the mounted DMG so when installers come packaged in the DMG anyway, it seems to me like things are kept consistent even if some apps break the rules. That's how I see it anyway.

 

Download OnyX: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/11582/onyx
Once opened OnyX: go to Parameters tab, look under Dashboard section and tick 'Enable the Developer Mode of Dashboard'.
Close OnyX

Now you can open Dashboard (with keyboard button), click and hold on the widget you want on your desktop, then press the Dashboard keyboard button again (whilst still holding down the mouse on the widget). This will drag it to the desktop!

It will - however - sit on top of all apps.....

 

Hey,

I too am an OSX neebie coming from windows and I've been wondering for a while if there is some way of knowing what is currently running and easily switching?

In windows, theri is alt-tab and task manager. I'm sure there is something similar in OSX but so far I didnt find it.

Thanks

 

Either look at the Dock or use CMD+TAB.

Also have a look here: Helpful Information for Any Mac User

 

exposé will show you all open windows and help you switch around, activity monitor will show you all that is running in "task manager" style.

 

CMD-TAB and activity monitor.. that's exactly what I was looking for..

thanks!