A whole load of newbie mac questions!

DarkShadow · 16 Jun 2006 at 11:40

Hi guys,

Had a Mini Mac delivered yesterday and having never used one before I'm in the process of learning!

I'd greatful if anyone could help and answer the following questions:

1) I have Firefox (FF) on XP and FF on the Mac. How would I import my bookmarks, passwords and so on? The Dir looks very different!

2) I have the Mac wireless mouse, I'v changed the mouse options via 2 method and it feel REALLY sluggish, it barely moves unless I make quick moves of direction. Comapred to my MX900 it really is painful

Would anyone care to shed some light on this? I have viewed Mac Help paes, still no joy.

3) When double clicking a window, me being used to xp, it maximizes, whereas in mac it minimizes. Is there a way I could change this? Again is there a way where I could swap the X-+ buttons to for viewing options?

4) Is there a way to make windows maximize at default everytime? I have to resize it every time I open a window, which is painful with that mouse!

5) Does objectdock get in the way of everyone? Where I maximize a page, object and wallpaper show, I have tried hidden but that's just plain annoying!

Thanks

DarkShadow · 17 Jun 2006 at 23:44

Thanks for all the help guys.

AJUK, That Mac guide is superb, thanks :cool:

The mac mouse is set to the highest speed, still a little sluggish, I'll just give it time to grow on me

Out of interest, am I doing this correctly? To install an app, I drag over the dmg files to application folders (it doesn't usually install at this point) I then double click the app in the folder and proceed to install. At times it mount the images, which I assume is normal?

To uninstall is it really as simple as deleting the application? Isn't there any 'registry' as such that it leaves dirty add ons around and so on?

Also, based on assumptions . . . I don't need firewalls, spyware removers or AV as such do I?

I'll be firing it up again tomorrow as I miss my dual windows set up whilst using them simutaneously!

Have to say that it's to good to be using both different OS's as it gives you an insight into both. The Mac is really starting grow on me

DarkShadow · 19 Jun 2006 at 11:22

E1mo said:
It still might be worth getting if you use your mac professionally - passing infected files onto colleagues and clients could be very embarrasing!

It's going to be used as a HTPC in the living room

I find everything REALLY slow on the mac. For example . . Web browsing it was seriously slow. I mean the concept of one click and browsing multiple pages wasn't doing any favours, I had to move the slow mouse to the top corner to view the page behind it and that didn't get rid of the 1 web browser. If I had used Command + Q it would just completely exit FF

Don't get me wrong, I really like the interface and so on, but surely there must be quicker ways around everything?

DarkShadow · 19 Jun 2006 at 11:39

Matt said:
Odd. Web browsing is fast for me My FF setup is the same as on my PC too, and the mouse is fast enough for me. You are using tabs in FF aren't you?

Yup.

I have very similar extensions to that I have in windows and it acts pretty wierd, for example when I select home page certain times it'll give me a new tab and other times it loads a normal page. I might try a re-install tbh.