Switch 101: A guide to using OS X

Ohh will you just shut up?

If you have enough free time to post inane dribble on every post, how about getting a real hobby? Nobody cares even the slightest about your opinion, and the only replies you get are people telling you to shut up. If you want to soapbox your opinions, go do it on a forum.

This is a news site, for reading news. READING. NEWS. If you don't care for it, DON'T READ IT.

A very general tip:
Try to do things the "Mac way". If you try to replicate certain functions or workflows you know from windows using the Mac will always be a bit ankward.
The questions you should ask are: "How do i accomplisch this task" not "what is the Mac equivalent for the Windows-Button on my Keyboard".

Helped me a lot.

My most fruitful advice for friends seriously considering switching is to actually read these tutorials (e.g., Switch 101 or otherwise) BEFORE heading to the Apple Store. Watching a switcher with zero Mac experience attempt to navigate a Mac in Store usually ends in about 5-10 minutes after they realize they have no clue where to even begin. Read Switch 101 and you can keep yourself occupied well over 30 minutes (or longer), digging around and actually helping you decide if this is really for you. The homework up front is really the key prior to a hands-on experience. my 2 cents.

@Jordan, hahahaha, it must just be a world of joy you live in...

A blog by a relatively recent 'switcher' has been really useful to me. Take a look at David Alison's blog at http://www.davidalison.com/

one thing that i have wondered is how to open a file / start a program etc from finder with that file selected. in windows of course you just select the file and press enter. on mac it renames it. but is there a shortcut/keystroke to actually open it (as if you had double clicked on it)?

presumably Jordan will know :)

The "Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual" series is also a good starting point for the book-inclined. It covers getting your files over from a Windows machine, goes into Mac software that may substitute for your favorite application that was Windows only, and then has a basic intro to OS X. If you've already made the transition then the big OS X book from the same series might be a better bet. I always make sure any switchers get one or the other (you don't need both) when they get their first Mac.

Jordan, it's an Apple blog, not a Jordan blog. Maybe you can check if TUJW.com is available so you can start your own site just about stuff you are interested in? :-P

Jordan has windows. He only has an iPhone, and apparently hates iTunes. He should get a palm and stop the trolling.

Yeah, cause Jordan already knows everything and you're boring him.