help a newbie out

[sambarry]

Hi all,

I got a MacBook the other day, and love it! Can't believe I was a windows user for so long.

But I have a few questions, all very noobish.

1) I accidentally removed the 'Home' link on the left side of the 'Macintosh HD' folder and I'd really like to get it back. How do I go about doing that?

2) Say, for exammple I was copying music from my server to my Mac and I close my mac. Would it quit the copying process or just go to sleep, but cnotinue to copy?

3) It seems to get very hot, are there any intenal temperature widets available?

4) Is it possible to set all video files to open in VLC player automatically instead of Qtime?

Cheers!

 

[gentlegiantcrai]

1) Right Click - customized Toolbar

2) Idk - have desktop

3) istat Pro

4)Right click video file > Get info. > Under "Open With" change it to VLC Player and click "change All"

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Hi all,

I got a MacBook the other day, and love it! Can't believe I was a windows user for so long.

But I have a few questions, all very noobish.

1) I accidentally removed the 'Home' link on the left side of the 'Macintosh HD' folder and I'd really like to get it back. How do I go about doing that?

2) Say, for exammple I was copying music from my server to my Mac and I close my mac. Would it quit the copying process or just go to sleep, but cnotinue to copy?

3) It seems to get very hot, are there any intenal temperature widets available?

4) Is it possible to set all video files to open in VLC player automatically instead of Qtime?

Cheers!

2) Sleeping the Mac will halt almost all activity, including copy jobs in progress.

 

[r.j.s]

1. Just drag your user folder back there. Go to your HD on your desktop, then users, click on your username and drag the folder to the side.

2.It would stop copying, although it might try to resume when you opened it again.

3. istat pro or istat nano are both very good. Google them.

4. Yes. Choose a file, right click, get info ... near the bottom it says open this file with - choose VLC, then right below that click change all. You'll have to do this for each file type, i.e., .mov, .mp4, .wmv, etc.

 

[sambarry]

Ace, cheers guys!

Anyone recommend any cool apps as well? I'm looking for a WinAmp esque media player.

 

[gentlegiantcrai]

xslimmer - removes the univ. Binary saving HD space

 

[wrldwzrd89]

There aren't many for Mac OS X, especially like Winamp, other than iTunes itself. The ones I know of are special-purpose players that play file types iTunes can't, but can't play files iTunes can.

For example: CocoModX for your module files
Audio Overload for (most) video game music

 

[Apple Ink]

Welcome to the brotherhood!

Seems like all your problems have been already solved above!
Any other problems.... just shoot!

 

[sambarry]

Welcome to the brotherhood!

Seems like all your problems have been already solved above!
Any other problems.... just shoot!

Awesome! Much more helpful than any Windows based help forums hah!

 

[DoFoT9]

2) Sleeping the Mac will halt almost all activity, including copy jobs in progress.

however if you accidentally put it to sleep and quickly wake it back up the transferring of data can normally be resumed.

to put the lid down and keep the computer on i recommend insomniaX. great little menu bar program!!!

Awesome! Much more helpful than any Windows based help forums hah!

its like that around here

 

[sambarry]

to put the lid down and keep the computer on i recommend insomniaX. great little menu bar program!!!



its like that around here

Perfect, i had a program like that on my iPhone 2G that kept net coverage after you'd closed the application you were running. Helps a lot!! Cheers!