2012 – The Year I went with Apple
I have never owned a Mac. I used them in college. I’ve used them in Mac districts that I work with. Bu I’ve never had one as my primary computer. Until now.
When they asked me at my new job at Kean what type of laptop I wanted, I jumped on the chance to try something new. It was time to get a Mac. I have had an iPad since they were released in early 2010. I’ve had an iPod Classic and an iPodTouch for many years. I even got the iPod Nano and watch band for the holidays this year. But, I wanted a chance to learn about the operating system and some of the software packages only available for Macs. (Perhaps I wanted some of my friends that have Macs to stop picking on me as well.)
So, my Macbook Air was delivered to me at work just about a month ago. The first thing I did was install the Chrome browser so that I would have access to all my personalized apps and extensions that I had used on my Chromebook and PCs. But since then, these are the apps that I’ve asked the office to install for me.
I’m happy I made the change as I look forward to seeing what some of these pieces of software can do, but honestly, I really only use the Chrome Browser. The rest is just gravy. (Yummy gravy.)
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Have you tried Gimp or GimpShop or SumoPaint for image editing?
I have used SumoPaint, but my favorite image web editor is http://www.picnik.com/ which is shutting down this April. I assume that its features will be embedded in Picasa Web albums.
Since I primarily use a PC at work and need to support users on Macs, my personal machine has been a Mac for about 10 years. I even converted my fiance to Mac, and he loves it!
It’s definitely tough going back and forth between the OS’s. Especially with all the touchpad features in the Mac OS. Thanks for sharing!!
I have to admit that I barely use most of the touchpad features *blush*. Just the two-finger scrolling.
Ya gotta take a look – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a6YfCT4dF0