Mac OS X comes with Apple's own productivity and creativity suite, which includes equivalent programs for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and others. How attached are you to Microsoft Office? That's the $220 question.
#SHORTCUT FOR SWITCHING ON MAC BETWEEN TWO FIREFOX BROWSERS FOR MAC#
Office for Mac 2011 ($219 for Businesses)
However, just like on Windows, we'd recommend Chrome or Firefox first, especially if you've used either browser on a PC. Safari, Apple's own browser, isn't bad per se, much like Internet Explorer's latest version isn't a complete abomination. Bonus features include previews of upcoming calendar events and mini-playback controls for iTunes and Spotify. And if I want to choose between multiple browser windows, I can hover above the browser icon in the dock and thumbnails of each window appear. On Windows, if I want a program to take up the left half of the screen, I hit Win+Left. This little app brings Windows 7's two best features to OSX and allows you to choose your shortcut keys. If you hold down the "command" key in any program for a few seconds, a list of shortcut keys, for that program, or for the operating system as a whole, will appear on the screen.Īutomatically resizing windows. MediaTelier's CheatSheet is the simplest of program ideas, which also makes it utterly brilliant. If you are keyboard shortcut obsessed, this should be your first download. However, I have found a few programs that are helping me to ease the transition, such as one that adds "missing" features that are present in Windows 7 (Aero Peek and Aero Snap, which we discussed yesterday) and another that helps me learn this foreign (Option? Command? Huh?) keyboard layout.
Productivity and deadlines demand that I fall back into old habits with Microsoft, for now. You see, not only is our blogging software PC-only, but after more than two decades on Windows-based machines, I'm still getting used to Mac OS X shortcut keys. Confession: I am not typing this on my Mac.
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