My move to OS X

Hello again, before Christmas I got myself a Mac Mini (1.66GHz Core Duo) and have found the move to OS X from Windows XP to be easy and relatively trouble free. Below are a list of websites that I found really useful in getting up and running on my new Mac and some of the problems I had and how I solved them.

Useful Mac Sites

• UsingMac.com
• OS X Daily
• The Unofficial Apple Weblog
• LifeHacker Mac Tip Articles

Mac Customization

• IconFactory
• MacThemes 2.0
• Leopard Docks

Mac Icons/Wallpaper

• MacThemes 2.0 Releases and Updates Forum
• McDo Design
• Pixel Resort
• Jonas Rak Design
• Louie Mantia

Quicklook Plugins

• QuickLook Plugins List
• hrmpf.com QuickLook Plugin List

How on earth do you type #?

I do some CSS and the # symbol is kinda vital so when I looked down and searched my new keyboard for this symbol it shocked me somewhat to find it not there. After looking around I found it was there, it was just hiding. To get him to appear simply press the option + 3 and # should appear on your screen, YAY!.

Growl not working

Growl was one of the things I was looking forward to using when I switched to Mac, so I was quite annoyed when it didn’t work. After looking around I found out that it was the Logitech drivers for my Mouse, that for some unknown reason stopped growl from display notifications.

So next I hunted around for an alternative to the Logitech drivers and found SteerMouse which is an “Advanced driver for USB and Bluetooth mouse.”

After uninstalling the Logitech drivers and installing SteerMouse Growl started working and had an added bonus of Leopard booting a bit faster, WOOPEY!

MainMenu

Last thing I want to share is this brilliant bit of software MainMenu which does lots of neat things (e.g. Repair Disk Permissions, Clear User/System cahce) all from the menu bar. Go check it out.

Posted on Wednesday, March 19th, 2008 by David