Re: The official thread for any and all discussion related to Apple Macs.
mAV3 said:
so far its been nice ... how do i maximise my window when i click on the plus sign it just centre aligns safari keeping some space on the left and right
and what is the folder where itunes library is saved ... i want to try whether if i copy the library of my itunes from windows to mac will it work?
and i can definitely say that mac is he best unix distro available
1. Look, when you are using Mac OS X, you have to let go of certain mindsets that have been ingrained in you from the years of using Windows. One of these things is Apple's different approach to window management. On Windows, the maximise button simply stretches any window to occupy whatever space is available on the screen. This method has an immediate and obvious drawback in terms of multi-tasking. You cannot see whatever is going on in other applications and become focused on just one application.
At present, you will argue that it is the better approach because you are used to Windows. I thought so too. But I was willing to learn new concepts and hopefully, so are you. Today, after months of using Mac OS X, I can very surely say that the Mac approach is better.
What is the Mac approach? The green button on a Mac is not called the maximise button. It is called the zoom button. What it does is it resizes any window to fit the contents within. So, when you open Yahoo! and then hit the zoom button, the scrollbar on the bottom will be eliminated but there won't be any white space left on either side of the page. This allows you to efficiently work with a lot of open applications. Is it clear?
However, it is not the perfect approach. Sometimes, you wish that you could just concentrate on one application and forget about the rest for a while. Mac OS X, by default, offers no way to do this. But there is a freely available plug-in that enables you to make any Cocoa application go fullscreen. It is called Megazoomer. You can download and use it if you wish to.
2. Yes, your iTunes library from Windows will indeed work on a Mac. Just copy the iTunes Music folder from your 'Music' folder in Windows and your iTunes Database File (named 'iTunes Library') to the '~/Music/iTunes' folder.
Here's a genius tip you can use: when you press and hold the Option key and then launch iTunes, it will ask you whether you want to use some other library apart from the default one.
There are lots of such nifty and cool features you'll learn as you use the OS.
BTW, I think this particular tip must be a new one even to the regulars like goobimama and nepcker.
You are welcome.
