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Hi there.
Just about to buy my MRs a 12" G4 iBook (stock). She's decided to take the plunge into OSX, especially after seeing Tiger in action.
I've already bought Office 2004 for it, and Slide Track, but does anyone have any reccomendations, software wise, for a woman who is a total Mac n00b?
If this goes well, the £2000 I was going to blow an a new desktop PC may be used to get myself eithe 17" Powerbook or G5 desktop, and finally I'll be in a happy house of Mac users.
Just about to buy my MRs a 12" G4 iBook (stock). She's decided to take the plunge into OSX, especially after seeing Tiger in action.
I've already bought Office 2004 for it, and Slide Track, but does anyone have any reccomendations, software wise, for a woman who is a total Mac n00b?
If this goes well, the £2000 I was going to blow an a new desktop PC may be used to get myself eithe 17" Powerbook or G5 desktop, and finally I'll be in a happy house of Mac users.
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Do the iBooks / Powerbooks come with any WP software already on there?
I know all the iMac come with Appleworks ... dunno about the laptops though.
Is iWork the new version of Appleworks or something?
I know all the iMac come with Appleworks ... dunno about the laptops though.
Is iWork the new version of Appleworks or something?
iWorks is really cool actually. I was in a hurry to make a 4 page newsletter, bit didn't have a clue with layout or whatnot with MS Publisher. Wuith Pages I finsihed it within a few hours; tidied up the content and changed a coule of things from a defined template and kaboom -professional newsletter ready for print.
Haven't used Keynote much.
Haven't used Keynote much.
Depends what she wants to do with it, really.
For RSS and Atom feeds there are only really two candidates: NewsFire [URL]http://www.newsfirerss.com/[/URL] or NetNewsWire [URL]http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/[/URL] - I've used both extensively and prefer NewsFire. Personally I find Safari's RSS handling a bit crap.
For FTP and better-than-OS-X iDisk integration (if you get a .Mac account): Transmit [URL]http://www.panic.com/transmit/[/URL] or Captain FTP [URL]http://captainftp.xdsnet.de/[/URL] (yarr!) - I used Captain FTP for a year or so but have recently switched to Transmit. Unfortunately OS X only allows downloads from FTP sites in Finder.
iLife is a pretty good investment - iPhoto [URL]http://www.apple.com/uk/ilife/iphoto/[/URL] is worth it's weight in gold, but I rarely use the others.
As you've got Office I wouldn't bother with iWork. Actually I wouldn't bother with it anyway!
MacUpdate [URL]http://www.macupdate.com/index.php[/URL] is a good place to find shareware and freeware as is VersionTracker [URL]http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/[/URL].
The forums on MacOS.com [URL]http://www.macosx.com/[/URL] are very good (and busy) and I also frequent Mac User's Forum [URL]http://macusersforum.com/index.php[/URL].
For RSS and Atom feeds there are only really two candidates: NewsFire [URL]http://www.newsfirerss.com/[/URL] or NetNewsWire [URL]http://ranchero.com/netnewswire/[/URL] - I've used both extensively and prefer NewsFire. Personally I find Safari's RSS handling a bit crap.
For FTP and better-than-OS-X iDisk integration (if you get a .Mac account): Transmit [URL]http://www.panic.com/transmit/[/URL] or Captain FTP [URL]http://captainftp.xdsnet.de/[/URL] (yarr!) - I used Captain FTP for a year or so but have recently switched to Transmit. Unfortunately OS X only allows downloads from FTP sites in Finder.
iLife is a pretty good investment - iPhoto [URL]http://www.apple.com/uk/ilife/iphoto/[/URL] is worth it's weight in gold, but I rarely use the others.
As you've got Office I wouldn't bother with iWork. Actually I wouldn't bother with it anyway!
MacUpdate [URL]http://www.macupdate.com/index.php[/URL] is a good place to find shareware and freeware as is VersionTracker [URL]http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/[/URL].
The forums on MacOS.com [URL]http://www.macosx.com/[/URL] are very good (and busy) and I also frequent Mac User's Forum [URL]http://macusersforum.com/index.php[/URL].
Solitaire.
Hi there.
Just about to buy my MRs a 12" G4 iBook (stock). She's decided to take the plunge into OSX, especially after seeing Tiger in action.
I've already bought Office 2004 for it, and Slide Track, but does anyone have any reccomendations, software wise, for a woman who is a total Mac n00b?
If this goes well, the £2000 I was going to blow an a new desktop PC may be used to get myself eithe 17" Powerbook or G5 desktop, and finally I'll be in a happy house of Mac users.
Just about to buy my MRs a 12" G4 iBook (stock). She's decided to take the plunge into OSX, especially after seeing Tiger in action.
I've already bought Office 2004 for it, and Slide Track, but does anyone have any reccomendations, software wise, for a woman who is a total Mac n00b?
If this goes well, the £2000 I was going to blow an a new desktop PC may be used to get myself eithe 17" Powerbook or G5 desktop, and finally I'll be in a happy house of Mac users.
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