More Mac

At the risk of turning MegaTao into a “switchers blog” and although it has only been about one week since I blogged about my new MacBook laptop, I feel the need to “big it up” some more.

Although, I must confess, it has crashed on me twice now.  Once when I was trying to load Photoshop and it would not load, just bounced the icon up and down on the dock and then did nothing.  It also crashed, again when using Photoshop and forced me to restart the machine.  Nothing major I suppose - and probably to be expected after pulling it in and out of sleep mode all the time.

I have migrated from using the Safari browser to Firefox and now onto Camino which seems to give all the benefits of both. WhiteBoyBob and I failed to get iChat to work last night - probably due to a firewall/router/port forwarding issue - so we will have to try again another time.

I am still getting to grips with the workspace, using Expose to show/hide the open windows.  Sometimes you cannot select a window, such as the Firefox download window for example.  Each time I attempted to select it last night it just popped Firefox back up instead.  It was misbehaving a little last night though whilst I was trying to download an… er…. video.  But all seems ok now.

I have also installed the VLC Media Player which, as per the Windows XP version, is excellent.

I turned back on the Bluetooth and synchronised my Motorola phone contacts straight into my Address Book first time with no issues.  The cheeky little application even had the nerve to display an exact picture of my phone!  I was then easily able to transfer files backwards and forwards with no issues - not like my experience with Bluetooth under XP!

I have yet to really dabble with iDVD, iMovie or iPhoto.  I have some pics in iPhoto and was able to create a slideshow with music very quickly.  USB devices such as printers, cameras and portable disks all work perfectly with ease too.

One thing I must do is find out more of the system keyboard shortcuts.  I expect that pressing the Apple key and F might bring up the Finder, but we shall see.