Just switched

My PC took a dump so I decided to make the switch. I bought a MAC Mini and am in the process of getting things running. We allready have an Ipad 3 & Ipad Mini. We re still (temporarilly) on HTC Andoid phones. 2 questions:

1) How do I get my Google contacts to transfer over?

2) What is the best refernece book to learn Mountain Lion? (I need to learn the basic of basics)

Thanks

Prestige593 said:

My PC took a dump so I decided to make the switch. I bought a MAC Mini and am in the process of getting things running. We allready have an Ipad 3 & Ipad Mini. We re still (temporarilly) on HTC Andoid phones. 2 questions:

1) How do I get my Google contacts to transfer over?

2) What is the best refernece book to learn Mountain Lion? (I need to learn the basic of basics)

Thanks

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1) Here you go: Syncing Google contacts in Mac OS X Mountain Lion | Niklaus Gerber

2) This is (in my opinion) the best book on the market: OS X Mountain Lion: The Missing Manual: David Pogue: 9781449330279: Amazon.com: Books

Welcome and congrats on your switch!

Prestige593 said:

My PC took a dump so I decided to make the switch. I bought a MAC Mini and am in the process of getting things running. We allready have an Ipad 3 & Ipad Mini. We re still (temporarilly) on HTC Andoid phones. 2 questions:

1) How do I get my Google contacts to transfer over?

2) What is the best refernece book to learn Mountain Lion? (I need to learn the basic of basics)

Thanks

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Hi there and welcome,

Go into your Gmail account, find your contact list and choose, 'All contacts' or create a group with your selected contacts that you wish to transfer. Click the 'Export' Option and choose the vCard format before exporting and downloading them to your desktop.

Open Address Book on your Mac and select File>Import>vCards then choose the..vcf file on your desktop and that will do the trick.

Regarding the best reference books..a few members on here recommend the Missing Manual series
Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Mountain Lion Edition - O'Reilly Media

There is also a tome just for Mountain Lion as well.

Cheers
Liam

There is also Mac 101 - with a section specific to "Pc to Mac"
Apple - Support - Mac Basics - Switching PC Habits
But the Basics of the Basics section is here
Apple - Support - Mac Basics

Missing Manual Series are quite good. I am a visual type person so I also like the Teach yourself Visually series
Teach Yourself VISUALLY OS X Mountain Lion (Teach Yourself VISUALLY (Tech)): Paul McFedries: 9781118401408: Amazon.com: Books