My initial thoughts, in no particular order:
- i quickly got used to the 2-finger scrolling and the 2-finger right button click
- i guess i still have to get used to figuring out whether I need to click alt, ctrl, or the apple-key
- the shade of green on awardtour looks pretty different compared to what I see on Windows
- frontrow is really slick
- I tired out iMovieHD using the built-in iSight. I was suprised how confusing it was to do some things, but for the most part it was dead simple. I was also impressed how quickly it rendered things considering the macbook uses an integrated video card
- skype wasn’t working very well for me. My audio echo’d and when I turned the volume up it created some odd feedback. I had none of these problems with ichat
- why is the chat window in ichat so ugly?
- Installed Quicksilver. I don’t get what the big deal is? Is it more useful with custom scripts? It also uses a lot of ram. I also found it was just as easy to use spotlight to launch apps and find files.
- For torrents, I installed the lightweight transmission, the very nice xtorrent, and the large and bulky java-based azureus. Unfortunately, both transmission and xtorrent were banned on some of my torrent boards for inappropriate protocol implementations. This left me with Azureus. I’m not too happy about that.
On the browser front, I installed camino and firefox to compare them with safari. I originally thought there was no way i’d use safari as gmail isn’t fully supported but since I have google chat in Adium I might reconsider. Camino didn’t have all the options I wanted so I installed Firefoxy which replaces the horribly ugly form elements in firefox (like radio buttons and text windows) with some nicer ones. I think I’ll be sticking with Firefox. I need something like a three finger click for “open a link in a new tab”.
Oh - forgot to add in my previous comment.
SideTrack to avoid the two finger scroll (you have to register it, but I like it anyway)
Cmd + click opens windows in a new tab
in Safari: Cmd+alt+Shift+click opens in a new window.
Once you have stuff on your drive, quicksilver will be infinitely faster as an app launcher. I never use the spotlight for anything anymore. In fact, I have disabled it. I also use quicksilver to add stuff to iCal and for some file browsing (only some).
Oh, and X-tunes is the best way to control iTunes. I have it set up so that Ctrl+alt+Cmd+Space opens the panel. You’ll see what i mean.
Skype: I use it without any problems, but I definitely use it with headphones or I get the echo problem you describe.
hold on, shouldnt you be able to do what xtunes does via quicksilver?
yeah. You can. But x-tunes is less key strokes still…
I take that back. I just set up some quick silver triggers to skip songs and change the volume. goodbye x-tunes.
Doesn’t your keyboard have a volumne up/down/mute keys?