Mac people - I have joined you. Now what?

[Masks!]

I'm also thinking about crossing into Mac land.....

...here's a dumb question...are my plug-ins that I currently use on my PC going to work on a MAC.....and if so is there any trick to installing them properly?

[Marc Pledger 1979]

Something I have found is that dashboard is a memory hog, its always on and always eating power! So I have done away with it altogether. Seems simple but I took a while to figure it out.....

[DryCounty]

Another thing you should do regularly is simply restart. From OS X 10.4 and upward, most of the maintenance scripts (or "cron" jobs) that would run regularly in the middle of the night/weekly/monthly are now a part of "launchd" -- the daemon that runs when you boot.

So there is really no need to keep your machine running overnight/forever anymore.

[jeddypoo]

I'm also thinking about crossing into Mac land.....

...here's a dumb question...are my plug-ins that I currently use on my PC going to work on a MAC.....and if so is there any trick to installing them properly?

si

sorry masks, they won't, though your install cds or whatever may have Mac install versions.

[jeddypoo]

there's an app called Onyx (freeware) that gets you access to more customizing in MacOS 10.4. I used it a lot when I was still using Tiger, but I ditched Tiger because it angered me and went back to 10.3.9. Anyway, with Onyx, I was able to completely eradicate every side app I didn't want- dashboard included- but it does more. Recommended.

[dogcow]

Make sure you hit apple-option-control-8 before and after every session.

[jeddypoo]

Make sure you hit apple-option-control-8 before and after every session.

yes, let's nerd-bully him. Good idea.