![]() Note that not all the apps may work under OS X 10.5 since it is still fairly new, but given some time, I’m sure most of the more popular ones will be made available for it. ![]() So, you either have to search long and hard, run a dual boot, run a virtual machine, or bite the bullet and spend that $15-$50 on an app that you can easily get for Windows at no charge.īut, there is some freeware available, and you can see a good list of what’s available. If you’ve been using OS X for even a little while, you may have discovered that the realm of freeware isn’t as vast as it is with the Windows platform. I know I said there were going to be 5 tips here, but I can’t resist sharing the following gem. To create an alias without the word “alias” in it (to avoid renaming it afterwards), hold down the Option and Command keys, then drag the application’s icon to wherever you want the alias/shortcut. This will always create a shortcut/alias with the word “alias” in the new icon. When you want to make a shortcut/alias, simply right click on the application’s icon, and click “Make Alias”. ![]() Sure, the term makes sense in this context, but coming from Windows, you start out having no idea what you’re looking for. In OS X, shortcuts aren’t called “shortcuts”. Dragging an application onto the desktop…well…sometimes breaks the application (case in point office applications with a suite of tools go haywire when you do this) Dragging the application down to the Dock usually works fine for creating a shortcut on the Dock. It’s handy to have a few of those apps as either shortcuts on the desktop or icons down on the Dock. In OS X, pretty much all of the applications you run across get dropped in the “Applications” folder in the “Macintosh HD” (logical, no?). Why do we have shortcuts? Easy access mainly, plus it avoids having to dig around in program directories for the correct executable file that actually runs the program. Scattered on the desktop scattered inside folders on the desktop scattered in My Documents. ![]() This is pretty much identical to the way the Windows ALT Tab hotkey works. Either way, the selected application will appear front and center. You can press Tab to advance to the next icon, or click on an icon with your mouse. This will cycle through all of the applications you have open. If you want to navigate back to it, it won’t show up on the Dock because you didn’t actually minimize it! Oh no!ĭon’t worry, it’s not really lost. This hides the application (just make sure the “main” windows of the application has focus). In the instance that you would like to minimize the app and move on to something else, you have to hit the minimize button on each one of those little windows…if they even have them (off the top of my head, Final Cut had been notorious for this, and I’ve found it quite annoying).Īnyway, here’s a neat tip with wresting with apps that won’t minimize: Hit the Command key and press H. Some applications have half a dozen mini windows that populate the entire screen. Those two keys are also good for navigation, in addition to Page Up and Page Down (although I don’t use those two nearly as often).Īnyway, this little tool addresses that minor annoyance. This is useful in text documents when you don’t want to hit CTRL A to select everything…only a single line and quickly. For instance, if I hit the Home key, it goes to the start of a line, and then if I hit SHIFT End, it highlights an entire line. The Home and End keys actually get used quite frequently with writing, coding, surfing, etc. In Windows, I use a good many shortcut keys. If you have everything configured correctly, you should be able to access the shared folders on the Mac. You will be prompted to login, so use one of the user accounts that exists on the Mac. So, from a PC, go to Start > Run and type \nameofthemac. So, for the moment, I’m a bit stuck in this regard (especially since I really don’t want to mess with unix-based command line console). As of the time of writing, there’s been no word yet if the developer of SharePoints is going to update the app for OS X 10.5. If you’re running the new OS X 10.5, unfortunately, enough has changed where SharePoints fails to work. This application is fairly straightforward. It allows you to specify what users you can log in as, and which users have what permissions to whichever folders you choose to share. If you’re running OS X 10.4 or older, you’re in luck: there’s a neat utility to make file sharing easier called SharePoints. Now for the tricky part: making the files on the Mac available to PCs. On the PC, just remember to share the folder you want, and make the folder writable if you want to be able to upload files from the Mac to the PC. ![]() If it asks you to login, use the same username and password as you would normally use to login to that PC. If it asks you to “mount a share”, it’s just asking which shared folder (or drive) you want to work with. ![]()
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