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Sat Feb 8, 2014 4:28 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Gary Benny" gary_benny
OK, we've gone all Mac now. I just purchased my first Mac - iMac 27 w/3.4 GHz quad core, 8 GB RAM. It's beautiful, fast and quiet. Now I'm trying to integrate my wife's iPad and our iPhones. I will likely get an iPad soon.
What I'm looking for is a recommendation for a book specifically geared toward a person switching from Windows to OSX - mavericks. I can see there are a lot of tricky cool things to learn, and want to get the most out of the new iMac and integration with our other units.
I've already setup separate user accounts for me and my wife, and want to make sure we can keep our stuff separate.
I am also sort if mystified by the iCloud as it doesn't seem to function the way I expect it to, or even as advertised!
I also would like to start using GarageBand and I'm looking fir good reference material for that.
Thanks for any info you can provide!
Gary
What I'm looking for is a recommendation for a book specifically geared toward a person switching from Windows to OSX - mavericks. I can see there are a lot of tricky cool things to learn, and want to get the most out of the new iMac and integration with our other units.
I've already setup separate user accounts for me and my wife, and want to make sure we can keep our stuff separate.
I am also sort if mystified by the iCloud as it doesn't seem to function the way I expect it to, or even as advertised!
I also would like to start using GarageBand and I'm looking fir good reference material for that.
Thanks for any info you can provide!
Gary
Sat Feb 8, 2014 6:59 am (PST) . Posted by:
"Ryan Waldon" ryanwaldon2002
Take a look at the ebooks mentioned in this article:
http://tidbits.com/article/14172
I recommend ebooks over the dead-tree variety for tech-related subjects - tech manuals are only ever one software update away becoming obsolete.
I'll also recommend a podcast to you, "The Maccast":
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/maccast-enhanced-for-mac-geeks/id74374416?mt=2
I've listed to this for several years, and it remains an invaluable asset for my Mac knowledge-base.
--ryan
Sent from my Apple iPad
> On Feb 8, 2014, at 7:25, Gary Benny <grbenny@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> OK, we've gone all Mac now. I just purchased my first Mac - iMac 27 w/3.4 GHz quad core, 8 GB RAM. It's beautiful, fast and quiet. Now I'm trying to integrate my wife's iPad and our iPhones. I will likely get an iPad soon.
>
> What I'm looking for is a recommendation for a book specifically geared toward a person switching from Windows to OSX - mavericks. I can see there are a lot of tricky cool things to learn, and want to get the most out of the new iMac and integration with our other units.
>
> I've already setup separate user accounts for me and my wife, and want to make sure we can keep our stuff separate.
>
> I am also sort if mystified by the iCloud as it doesn't seem to function the way I expect it to, or even as advertised!
>
> I also would like to start using GarageBand and I'm looking fir good reference material for that.
>
> Thanks for any info you can provide!
>
> Gary
>
http://tidbits.
I recommend ebooks over the dead-tree variety for tech-related subjects - tech manuals are only ever one software update away becoming obsolete.
I'll also recommend a podcast to you, "The Maccast"
https://itunes.
I've listed to this for several years, and it remains an invaluable asset for my Mac knowledge-base.
--ryan
Sent from my Apple iPad
> On Feb 8, 2014, at 7:25, Gary Benny <grbenny@comcast.
>
> OK, we've gone all Mac now. I just purchased my first Mac - iMac 27 w/3.4 GHz quad core, 8 GB RAM. It's beautiful, fast and quiet. Now I'm trying to integrate my wife's iPad and our iPhones. I will likely get an iPad soon.
>
> What I'm looking for is a recommendation for a book specifically geared toward a person switching from Windows to OSX - mavericks. I can see there are a lot of tricky cool things to learn, and want to get the most out of the new iMac and integration with our other units.
>
> I've already setup separate user accounts for me and my wife, and want to make sure we can keep our stuff separate.
>
> I am also sort if mystified by the iCloud as it doesn't seem to function the way I expect it to, or even as advertised!
>
> I also would like to start using GarageBand and I'm looking fir good reference material for that.
>
> Thanks for any info you can provide!
>
> Gary
>
Sat Feb 8, 2014 11:42 pm (PST) . Posted by:
"Gary Benny" gary_benny
Hi Ryan.
Thanks a lot for the links. I can listen to the podcast while I'm at my desk pretending to work!
I get what you're saying about the ebooks. I have come to really love reading on a tablet or my kindle. But for reference I still really like a hardcopy. Just seems a lot easier to navigate the book while focusing on the program on the computer.
I actually need some kind of guide for the person specifically converting to a Mac. What's new with mavericks doesn't help me much if I don't really get the way the Mac works.
Here are just a few of the things that are hanging me up: how does the directory system work; how to organize the apps that are open - navigating between them; when you click on "about" on an open program, why do you have to dig for it. It doesn't pop to the top; how to save a bookmark in Safari? Not obvious. Why does Safari try to get you to save all the open tabs in the same bookmark? Why do you have to install a third party app to sort your bookmarks in alphabetical order; why did some - some old some new but only a few - "notes" from my iphone show up on the iMac?; why won't Word 2011 for Mac open a .doc file?
This is a really short list of stuff I'm trying to deal with. Online google searches reveals an endless supply of useless suggestions. You get a lot of suggestions that don't help at all! The insanity that ensues trying to find out about the .doc file issue is a joke! A millions versions of "try this"! There has to be a real answer!
Apple forums seem to be a good "how to" resource unless you're dealing with something that doesn't seem to work right!
Again, thanks for the links.
Gary
> On Feb 8, 2014, at 5:29 AM, Ryan Waldon <ryanwaldon2002@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Take a look at the ebooks mentioned in this article:
>
> http://tidbits.com/article/14172
>
> I recommend ebooks over the dead-tree variety for tech-related subjects - tech manuals are only ever one software update away becoming obsolete.
>
> I'll also recommend a podcast to you, "The Maccast":
>
> https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/maccast-enhanced-for-mac-geeks/id74374416?mt=2
>
> I've listed to this for several years, and it remains an invaluable asset for my Mac knowledge-base.
>
> --ryan
>
> Sent from my Apple iPad
>
>> On Feb 8, 2014, at 7:25, Gary Benny <grbenny@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>> OK, we've gone all Mac now. I just purchased my first Mac - iMac 27 w/3.4 GHz quad core, 8 GB RAM. It's beautiful, fast and quiet. Now I'm trying to integrate my wife's iPad and our iPhones. I will likely get an iPad soon.
>>
>> What I'm looking for is a recommendation for a book specifically geared toward a person switching from Windows to OSX - mavericks. I can see there are a lot of tricky cool things to learn, and want to get the most out of the new iMac and integration with our other units.
>>
>> I've already setup separate user accounts for me and my wife, and want to make sure we can keep our stuff separate.
>>
>> I am also sort if mystified by the iCloud as it doesn't seem to function the way I expect it to, or even as advertised!
>>
>> I also would like to start using GarageBand and I'm looking fir good reference material for that.
>>
>> Thanks for any info you can provide!
>>
>> Gary
>
>
Thanks a lot for the links. I can listen to the podcast while I'm at my desk pretending to work!
I get what you're saying about the ebooks. I have come to really love reading on a tablet or my kindle. But for reference I still really like a hardcopy. Just seems a lot easier to navigate the book while focusing on the program on the computer.
I actually need some kind of guide for the person specifically converting to a Mac. What's new with mavericks doesn't help me much if I don't really get the way the Mac works.
Here are just a few of the things that are hanging me up: how does the directory system work; how to organize the apps that are open - navigating between them; when you click on "about" on an open program, why do you have to dig for it. It doesn't pop to the top; how to save a bookmark in Safari? Not obvious. Why does Safari try to get you to save all the open tabs in the same bookmark? Why do you have to install a third party app to sort your bookmarks in alphabetical order; why did some - some old some new but only a few - "notes" from my iphone show up on the iMac?; why won't Word 2011 for Mac open a .doc file?
This is a really short list of stuff I'm trying to deal with. Online google searches reveals an endless supply of useless suggestions. You get a lot of suggestions that don't help at all! The insanity that ensues trying to find out about the .doc file issue is a joke! A millions versions of "try this"! There has to be a real answer!
Apple forums seem to be a good "how to" resource unless you're dealing with something that doesn't seem to work right!
Again, thanks for the links.
Gary
> On Feb 8, 2014, at 5:29 AM, Ryan Waldon <ryanwaldon2002@
>
> Take a look at the ebooks mentioned in this article:
>
> http://tidbits.
>
> I recommend ebooks over the dead-tree variety for tech-related subjects - tech manuals are only ever one software update away becoming obsolete.
>
> I'll also recommend a podcast to you, "The Maccast"
>
> https://itunes.
>
> I've listed to this for several years, and it remains an invaluable asset for my Mac knowledge-base.
>
> --ryan
>
> Sent from my Apple iPad
>
>> On Feb 8, 2014, at 7:25, Gary Benny <grbenny@comcast.
>>
>>
>> OK, we've gone all Mac now. I just purchased my first Mac - iMac 27 w/3.4 GHz quad core, 8 GB RAM. It's beautiful, fast and quiet. Now I'm trying to integrate my wife's iPad and our iPhones. I will likely get an iPad soon.
>>
>> What I'm looking for is a recommendation for a book specifically geared toward a person switching from Windows to OSX - mavericks. I can see there are a lot of tricky cool things to learn, and want to get the most out of the new iMac and integration with our other units.
>>
>> I've already setup separate user accounts for me and my wife, and want to make sure we can keep our stuff separate.
>>
>> I am also sort if mystified by the iCloud as it doesn't seem to function the way I expect it to, or even as advertised!
>>
>> I also would like to start using GarageBand and I'm looking fir good reference material for that.
>>
>> Thanks for any info you can provide!
>>
>> Gary
>
>
Sat Feb 8, 2014 7:09 am (PST) . Posted by:
eugenebehenna
Thanks, David. Got feeling my ipod gn 2 is wearing out. Or Apple is letting me down. Internet connection all right with my computer. Hate to go fiddling around with router and modem to see what's ailing the ipod. Did power off ipod, as you offered, still no luck. No fun having a non-working ipod around.
