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Have You or Are You Switching from PC to Mac?

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If I don’t say this right, people will be upset. I know that some will chastise me for even doing this video. What I’m referring to is a situation that you may have either found yourself in… or will in the future. I’m talking about switching your primary operating system from Windows to Mac OS X. You could say it was curiosity that won me over. I was a life-long Windows user, like many of you are. However, I felt as though I was ready to expand my horizons and learn more. I started playing in Linux and OS X. I love to learn new things. Heck, I’m excited to try out the newest version of Windows when it’s ready to beta test.

Until you are me, you cannot tell me what I can choose for myself, and vice-versa. I hate it when people email me to ask me what they should get. I don’t know what you should get! What will fit your budget and needs the best? No matter what, I’m happy with whatever you decide. Do your research and choose whatever you are comfortable will be the best product for you.

As far as operating systems go, there is no “best”. Again, it’s a matter of choice. What will suit your needs and preferences? When you first turn on a Mac, you will be ticked off if you’re expecting to just jump in and know what to do, where everything is, and how to use it all. It’s different. Of course it is! It’s a completely different experience. Does that make it a bad one? Does that make it better? Of course not! It just makes it different.

There may be some features inside of Windows that you miss. I have a few tools that I have found that may help you feel more comfortable using a Mac.

  • When you right click inside an Explorer menu, you’ve got “new” and it cascades out from there. Some people miss that in Mac OS X. If you download Document Palette, it will do essentially the same thing. Document Palette runs in the background and allows you to create new documents in the current folder.
  • If you like that cascading right click menu, but don’t really like Document Palette, you can try NuFile. It adds a new file menu when you right click at a folder just like what you can do in Windows. With this menu, you can create an empty file of your favourite type with just two clicks.
  • I fell in love with this instantly. Inside of Windows, it’s easy to change file types on a mass scale… not so much in a Mac. MisFox will show all the file mappings settings and the protocol helpers. You can inspect these settings, but you can also edit, delete and create new items for these settings.
  • How can you configure your sounds in OS X? Well, now it’s as easy as it is in Windows. BleepBlop is a simple utility which allows you to customise all your OS X sounds through an easy-to-use sexy interface. Bleep Blop also allows you to save your sound settings as Blundles.

So if you’ve already made the switch to OS X, what other applications and programs have you used to make life easier on a Mac?

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