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Blogging the switch to Mac OS X
I found another one of those 'switcher blogs' and I thought it might make an interesting read for both Mac newbies and power users. I honestly can't find any information on the author, but My Journey to Macintosh provides up some interesting switcher experiences, such as loading up Firefox just because that's what the author used on Windows, then discovering that other browsers like Camino offer a far more Mac OS X-like experience, in part because Camino isn't butt-ugly and it uses the Keychain.
One thing I like about this blog is that the author seems to be a power user, of sorts; while some posts are about discovering the wonders of working with PDFs on a Mac without the need for Adobe's (fat, bloated, clunky, slow and horrible) Reader, another post laments some hangups in getting PHP and MySQL working. In other words: there's something for everyone!
There isn't a virtual library of posts yet, but I thought it might be an interesting switcher blog to watch because of both the variety of topics the author has touched on so far, and an About section that reads: "Microsoft Windows user since Windows 3.0 moves to a Mac and Mac OS/X Tiger. Watch the process, good and bad :)." See? Fair and balanced, too. Enjoy.
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Aaron said 8:18AM on 4-04-2006
I don't understand what compels people to spell it "OS/X". Is it on analogy with OS/2 or what?
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Christian said 3:00PM on 4-04-2006
I tried to blog my switch one and a half years ago, too... However, it would document the switch from i386 to powerpc since I'm mostly a Linux user... Pity for me that it didn't run right away, lucky for me that I thus had the chance of getting to know OS X.
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Q... said 7:37AM on 4-05-2006
Interesting read -- My Journey to Macintosh. For those considering this switch, I have found "Ask Dave Taylor" -- http://www.askdavetaylor.com/ an immense help.
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