It’s Day 4 and the PC is angry, it’s coming after me and wants to re-enslave me! Well not really but PC is very sad. My original plan when purchasing the new MacBook Pro was to maintain the PC for media and data work. The more I work with the Mac I realize the many ways I may not need the old PC. This helps to explain the YouTube video above, there’s a better explanation below.
Today’s MacBook adventure started with a phone call to my friend Jeff of 10 Volt Media. When I visited him in Chicago two years ago he was telling me the wonders of Mac and how awesome they have become. His words exactly. I knew he had answers to questions and issues that that surrounded my new Mac experience. Continue Reading »
My first day with the new Mac has been problem free. Still smitten with the new MacBook Pro, I’m doing something I have not done in years, work from my bed! Day 1 of my new Mac life is focused on transitioning from my PC (which I will be using for very specific items). Throughout this process I am really surprised by the amount of useful utilities and programs on the Mac, a far cry from what’s available on Windows. One example is password management. In order to keep track of my passwords on Vista I use KeyPass, an amazing and secure open source program. Leopard comes integrated with a password utility called Keychain, which seems to be just as amazing. It provides all of the same functios but is integrated into the operating system (although Firefox doesn’t seem to play nice with it.)
My migration plan includes three external USB hard drives, each with a different purpose. When I connected one of the drives I was able to access it’s file, this made me very happy. Mac had no problem reading, identifying and playing the files. The stumbling block occurred when I tried to place files onto the hard drive. It seems while I can access files, I cannot add or remove files to the drive. I’m not sure if this is a protection scheme of Vista or some sort of other technical glitch, but a Google search in the next few days should help answer this question for me. Bummer! Continue Reading »
