Just got the iMac. Now what the hell can I do with it. So far I've moved movies, photos and music pretty successfully from the PC. I also created a movie and burned it to a DVD and published it to YouTube. Anyone else have any hot tips for what I need to do in order to enhance my Apple Experience?
2.66GHz Intel Core i5
2560 x 1440 resolution
4GB memory
1TB hard drive
8x double-layer SuperDrive
ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics with 512MBEdit
2.66GHz Intel Core i5
2560 x 1440 resolution
4GB memory
1TB hard drive
8x double-layer SuperDrive
ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics with 512MBEdit
1 comment:
Get an iPhone to complement it?
Browse the internet?
Relearn every keyboard shortcut you've ever learned.
Actually, if you're into development for fun, Mac's have some good toys. There's always XCode where you can write full on apps for the Mac or iPhone, but the one's I enjoy playing with the most are automator and quartz composer. You may have to install compooser from the install cd, I don't remember.
Anyway, automator lets you automate workflows by allowing apps to expose common functions. Then you just piece those functions together in a pipeline and Bob's your uncle. You won't use it all the time, but those times you do use it, it's a lifesaver. I was able to take a couple dozen scanned in pages for our home loan and use automator to convert them to grayscale, adjust the contrast and then consolidate them into a PDF. Wasn't anything amazing, but it was much easier than trying to do it by hand.
Composer let's you create simple graphical apps through a pipeline type gui. Very little code to get interesting results, mostly visual. Basically it's great at making iTunes visualizers and screen savers.
Neither one has changed my life, but both are fun ways to make things and learn more about your Mac. Sorry if that was a bit rambling.
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