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There are lots of myths about Mac’s that come from previous versions. I’ve used Macs and Windows for years. From the very first floppy only Mac all the way to the Mac Book Pro. I do think that Apple is making it way harder though by not have a Windows…

With Windows I know all the maintenance things. I use O&O Defrag for making disks faster, Chkdsk for fixing errors, with the Mac, it is a different world. http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html#Anchor-57343 has a good list of things to be done. # Repair permission is something you can do with /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility and…

Now that I’ve been hacking away at the Mac, its time to print. Printing is actually pretty easy. There is a built in driver for the HP 4250n that I use, but for the Canon, you get deep into color management and so forth. I can’t seem to get my…

I normally use 7Zip on the PC to unpack strange formats like RAR. For the Mac, the freeware product is called “UnRarX”:http://unrarx.clom Powered by ScribeFire.

The Mac has this alternative interface called the Dashboard which have a collection of small applications called widgets. It ships with things like clocks and calendars, but “Apple”:http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard has a whole bunch more including: Sudoku Fun Widget that lets you play this addicting game Hangman. the famous game “Canto Pod”:http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/music/cantopod.htm…

I just love BeyondCompare for file copying and updating on my PCs, so “Match”:http://www.bytewash.com/Bytewash/Match.html seems like equivalent on the Mac Powered by ScribeFire.

OK, I normally use DVDDecryptor, SmartRipper or AutoGK for the PC to backup up DVDs, for the Mac, it looks like “MacTheRipper”:http://mactheripper.org is the most popular at least according to the most popular list at “MacUpdate”:http://www.macupdate.com/popular.php Another very popular one is “HandBrake”:http://handbrake.m0k.org which seems to be more like AutoGK in…