Struggling :(

Explore your mac and try to enjoy it. Maybe buy a book.

In Spotlight start typing Color... the first choice is Colorsync Utility. Launch it and it will walk you through it, or you can use its Help menu. Why do you need to calibrate your screen?

In Spotlight type Mouse... You'll see System Preferences - Mouse & Keyboard. Launch it and there's a Help button.

In the Finder click on Help and type Keyboard. You'll find loads of options.

 

Keyboard & mouse

Security there are no known Mac Viruses in the wild ( make sure your firewall is on ) if you feel you need a av try clamxav


calibrate screen system pref>display>color>calibrate ( or paid alternatives such as spyder2 )


And here is a load of useful stuff

Oh and enjoy your Mac ( Not MAC ) & always feel free to ask

 

Hiya jamin,

I hope the differences doesn't put you off, or make you give up. I can understand where your coming from and therefore sympathise with you and others like you. Your not alone in making the switch.. there are many new comers to those forums every single day. And believe me... Whatever question you could possible ask, has probably been asked a hundred times before but in different ways. This doesn't mean you shouldn't ask... Please feel welcomed! Post your equerries, thoughs and bugs.. In helping you, I think we'll end up helping others too!

I think and believe, the user's thinking and logics between Windows and OSX is alot different... but in MacOSX there's a really useful tool - the "HELP" menu - you can ask your OS anything at all it'll never be tired of your questions.. ALSO, most of us on MR won't either! So don't be afraid.

I'm pretty sure we're a friendly bunch.

UltraNEO*

 

i was in your boat, i was LOST without the concept of right clicking or F5 not refreshing the page, simple things like that. went in and enabled the two finger click, discovered command+R, and all is well.

the mac commands seems foreign at first, but become natural just like windows commands were. i use a PC at work and find myself trying to use mac commands all the time. i was working on my mom's toshiba the other night and had a hell of a time right clicking now that i'm used to the two finger click.

 

yes, on the trackpad. the absolute FIRST thing i did when it came out of the box was to enable tap to click, i hate using the button.

 

Yeah, I almost never use the button. Near everything that needs doing can be done through the trackpad.

 

If you fancy cracking a good book on Leopard, I can recommend "Mac OS X - The Missing Manual" the author (David Pogue) has written several "Missing Manual" books, and from looking at your list of questions, you would probably find your answers there!

Here's the (Amazon US) link:

http://www.amazon.com/Mac-OS-Leopar...bs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1205330856&sr=8-1

(I'm in the UK so got mine there); but if you're not in the US or UK, the ISBN numbers are:

# ISBN-10: 059652952X
# ISBN-13: 978-0596529529

So you could get any bookshop to order it. Well worth a read!

 

In regards to color profiles, try this one:

http://att.macrumors.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=78668&d=1183699491

Worked great on my 15in Penryn with matte screen. Search these forums for icc files and just try them until you get one that looks great on your screen. You can also use the built in calibration utility, but I had trouble making my whites look 'white' and not blue.