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- Feb 9, 2011
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- Your Mac's Specs
- 21½" 3.6GHz Core i5 iMac, 12GB Crucial RAM
(and yes, I did search)
1). Downloaded Perian, flash, and Flip4Mac, do I still need to dwonload VLC? And if so, which one? Their site list 32/64 bits Intel Mac, 32 bit, 64 bit, and Power PC Mac. Confusing. What does this do for me? It seems I can already play most everything I'm running across.
2). How do I clean-up the downloads folder next to my trash? Its got Perian and Flip4Mac in it waiting to be installed...again. I already did it!
3). Speaking of Flash, Flip4Mac, and Perian; once I installed them, they're on my desktop. I have options to eject, but would that uninstall it? I just want to keep my Mac desktop clean. Dragging to the trash seemed like a bad idea.
4). When creating a 2nd account, it asks me if I want to turn on FileVault Protection. What is FileVault Protection? And if I select it, it asks if I'd like to use secure virtual memory? Confusing.
5). What is "preview" on my dock? Thats a bit vague.
6). Getting my bookmarks into Firefox was a PAIN! I had to export them from Internet explorer on my PC, copy the bookmark file over to my Mac. Import it into Safari (since Firefox wouldn't let me), and then import my bookmakrs from Safari into Firefox. Then I had to move them by hand so they didn't have that stupid "imported from Safari" menu choice; all that and I still have to go through each and every shortcut and remove the ".URL" off the end to make them look right. OY!! There must be an easier way (not that it matters since its done).
7). iMac: Let it sleep or shut it off at night?
8). I was pleasantly surprised (and impressed) that my 10-year old IDE hard drives, once plugged into an enclosure), mounted very easily and let me copy my photos over. Good job Mac! But (and this is stupid), if I wanted to rename a file, I can't figure out how. Maybe its because its still on the NTFS drive and not on on my Mac? I think I just answered my own question.
1). Downloaded Perian, flash, and Flip4Mac, do I still need to dwonload VLC? And if so, which one? Their site list 32/64 bits Intel Mac, 32 bit, 64 bit, and Power PC Mac. Confusing. What does this do for me? It seems I can already play most everything I'm running across.
2). How do I clean-up the downloads folder next to my trash? Its got Perian and Flip4Mac in it waiting to be installed...again. I already did it!
3). Speaking of Flash, Flip4Mac, and Perian; once I installed them, they're on my desktop. I have options to eject, but would that uninstall it? I just want to keep my Mac desktop clean. Dragging to the trash seemed like a bad idea.
4). When creating a 2nd account, it asks me if I want to turn on FileVault Protection. What is FileVault Protection? And if I select it, it asks if I'd like to use secure virtual memory? Confusing.
5). What is "preview" on my dock? Thats a bit vague.
6). Getting my bookmarks into Firefox was a PAIN! I had to export them from Internet explorer on my PC, copy the bookmark file over to my Mac. Import it into Safari (since Firefox wouldn't let me), and then import my bookmakrs from Safari into Firefox. Then I had to move them by hand so they didn't have that stupid "imported from Safari" menu choice; all that and I still have to go through each and every shortcut and remove the ".URL" off the end to make them look right. OY!! There must be an easier way (not that it matters since its done).
7). iMac: Let it sleep or shut it off at night?
8). I was pleasantly surprised (and impressed) that my 10-year old IDE hard drives, once plugged into an enclosure), mounted very easily and let me copy my photos over. Good job Mac! But (and this is stupid), if I wanted to rename a file, I can't figure out how. Maybe its because its still on the NTFS drive and not on on my Mac? I think I just answered my own question.