mac’lueless
My tech world has been turned upside down - I bit the bullet, or the forbidden apple in this case, and bought a shiny new MacBook a week ago. Since then I have been fumbling around like a complete newbie trying to figure out the basics of operating this stylishly sexy machine. The learning curve is gigantic when almost all you’ve known is Microsoft’s Windows (I had a brief stint with Ubuntu a few years ago)… yes, really.
What do you do if nothing seems to work the way it should? You spend lots of quality time with your new best friend, Google. “There must be others who have gone through similar situations and have documented their findings” you mutter under your breath as you scour Google’s proffering. Well yes, there are, all you need is patience and time. Don’t have either? Here are a few simple yet essential things I’ve learnt…
Keyboard shortcuts don’t work the same on a MacBook
Whether you want to copy and paste, move your cursor a word at a time, or delete instead of backspacing it’s just different.
The basics
Cut: cmd x
Copy: cmd c
Paste: cmd v
Delete: fn backspace
More: Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts
A bit more adventurous
Move one word left or right: alt arrow
Move to the beginning or end of the line: cmd arrow
Select one word left or right: shift alt arrow
Select to the beginning or end of the line: shift cmd arrow
More: Table of keyboard shortcuts, Default Mac OS X System Key Bindings
Now to reprogram my fingers into the correct positioning for the new shortcuts!
Still to come is a look at some blogging tools I’ve discovered, with the next blog post published from one of the blogging applications.
