I Have A New Gadget: iMac

WOOOOO! Mac! I’ve got a Mac! And it’s in my room right now!

I have a friend, called Yam. She went to US for student exchange few days ago, and she “appointed” me to take care of her computer until she returns. Prior leaving Australia, she stopped renting her accommodation and we offer her our bigger room to stay over. Well you see, Chuan and I are a bunch of nice guys. Got girls¹ come over to stay wo.. confirm give them biggest room la. We usually call it The Common Room la..

After she left, I asked Jimmy² to reformat the Mac for me. I want to learn it from basic and customise everything. Jimmy agrees that’s the best approach and he taught me a few tips and tricks, the rest I’ll have to figure out myself. Sap sap sui la… I think.

Unfortunately, by the time of this post being written (and the Mac has left untouched for one week). I am still using the Ultimate Tingkap³. I am unable to familiarize quick enough to do things efficiently and productively. Biggest reason of all? I could not figure out the way to logout Adium*. Sungguh paiseh. And I am still busying on customising my other website – manyholes.com (You could drop by and check out the design being altered bit by bit everyday). Update 24/08/09: Manyholes.com design is done!

Jimmy assumes that my productivity will increase dramatically once I mastered the basic usage of Mac. Only if I mastered… hahahaha. Ah well. I still have 4 months to use it anyway. I’ll take my time. Oh by the way, can any of you recommend me must-have applications? or any advice to new Mac users? Please leave comment below.

At the mean time, I’ll grab some cold beer from fridge and continue working on my website.

Cheers everyone. Have a good night!


¹ – Yam and Xiao Yun
² – The Mac guru. He converted a few friends around him into Mac-heads.
³ – Window Vista Premium
* – Instant messaging for Macs, MSN in windows.

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Definitely get one when I need to return this iMac to Yam. Hehehehe. I frowned when I use Tingkap now.. geez. Going to wait for new iMac batch during December/ January. What do you think?

told you so ;)

definitely get one for yourself if you can afford it and especially when you do more than browsing and word processing. make good use of student discount too while you're still a student

24" bad ass monitor, not bad right?! Good thing about it... it's one piece with processor, ram and harddisk. Save so much place! I don't even need my dual monitor anymore too.

Consider getting one if you look at long term. You always play with photoshop ma.

OMFG! Tat screen is huge man! I wan MAC too.....

All Mac mouse are the same, but I dislike them due to my large palm. A bit hard to hold it. Plus the right click feels weird. However, it's a really good looking mouse.

the mouse looks cute and unique!

hey ahbing.. not sure whether you got follow my journal or not.. if got i think you would know that i'm currently in a competition called BEST TRIP IN THE WORLD and i'm in the only one of the 5 Malaysian teams that made into the TOP 50..

the thing is.. we Malaysians are being bullied GAO GAO in the competition.. i dunno how the other teams cheat/grab/rob but definitely they are playing some tricks to increase their vote count... WHY DO I SAID SO?? just think how can you maintain at 1,600 votes for 2 weeks... then suddenly increase 5,000 votes within 1 day??

i'm not sure how they made it.. maybe they got onto national tv.. or whatever.. but we couldn't believe and it's like getting a kick and a punch directly to my face.. becoz me and my team mate had tried our best to pull out the best marketing plan ever and we have 1,000 fans on our facebook page supporting us.. but still.. the fact is unacceptable..

so i urge all my dear friends and Malaysians!! Please stand up against this brutality and unfair competition... Show them the people power and we still can win without cheating!!

http://3.ly/BKT to catch all the updates in our facebook!! Hope you will give us a hand by mentioning about us .. even a one-liner will do with a link to our official web page http://3.ly/main

Can use this beast until December only. but this allows me to do some part time jobs and save up money for it when the time arrives.

Definitely. my productivity increased too! I notice I save much time with fewer clicks and navigation. all these are done by smart programs. very impressive. I don't think I can turn back Windows anymore =|

Beautiful beast, Good for you dude! xD

Eh, the Toohey extra dry nice meh? white stag better. low in carbs

I prefer Victorian Bitter! I love the malt taste in VB, I can drink until faint, then wake up and continue drink next day. Lol. Tooheys wise, I would only treat is as "light-drink".. usually drink it when I am working on projects on midnight. Alcohol increase my productivity and concentration. Weird but true. lol.

More than 3 bottles I lost focus though.

mac =) it's fast la compared to windows =)

Yea I have problem on my first and second day too. I have a feeling that I can't turn back to "Tingkap" anymore... hmmmm/ Problem is, I don't own that Mac. It'll be troublesome. hehe.

Get credit card from parents and swipe it online.. you tell them "pa.. I borrow only. later give you back"

i like that pc so freaking much hehehe but im sure have a prob using MAC hehehe oh hey ya ;)

a FEW MORE YEARS....................... lol. I don't have anything planned out in next 3 months.

I only use Alexa. Google Toolbar nice?

fvck, firebug looks promising, that's if i can get it installed (its not installing atm $%&^*@). i've been using firefox web developer add-on all this while but it's not as user-friendly

btw, do you use google toolbar to check your SEO ranking?

yea, quite a few

i was thinking of getting an iMac once my mbp gets old in a few years time but a mate of mine told me about psystar, a company who assembles pc and changes some bios settings to instal OS X legally. even though you don't get the wank factor of owning mac hardware, but the prospect is really good since you get the same performance at half the price and upgradable.

however, the company is dogged by quite a few controversies, so i guess i'll see how it goes in a few years time

Thank you! Definitely need that torrent app and toast. Firefox is my first app installed in Mac.. can't live without Firebug. Shweeet list!

Here are my essentials

Mactheripper - Ripping DVD's
Vuze - Downloading torrents
Firefox
Toast - burning cd/dvd

Whooooa, whole list of applications! Nice! I'll install everything dulu.. then explore it one by one. Have you converted anyone around to Macs yet? You seems like a pure mac-head too. hehe

Whooooa, whole list of applications! Nice! I'll install everything dulu.. then explore it one by one. Have you converted anyone around to Macs yet? You seems like a pure mac-head too. hehe

Free apps is always good :) Thanks for sharing, Vincent!

free copy of coda

http://gu1337.com/mac-apps/216817-mac-coda-1-6-...

isn't terminal the OS X version of MS-DOS, which can be found in applications/utilities/?

don't familiarize, just do it!

when i got my mbp, i told myself i'd use the bootcamp. that never realize as soon as i start using OS X.

easier said than done? nope. i use to be a window fanboy, cursing how my mum and sis's macbook are so hard to use. but as soon as i sit down and use it, i never looked back

not sure how much coding you do with your website but coda is a good tool for web developers. http://www.panic.com/coda/

VMware fusion to run your windows simultaneously when needed. you can run windows installed in your bootcamp so anything you changed in VMware changes in your windows partition too. http://www.vmware.com/

control your mac from anywhere on the earth. https://secure.logmein.com/

get rid of any sisa-sisa when you uninstall programs. there are many programs out there that does the same job, you might find something better (and let me know!) http://www.appzapper.com/

the last time i tried adium, it was lagging the computer badly, i suspect the earlier versions have memory leak. so i stick to msn by the anti-trust-bullish-monopolizing microsoft :P how's the later version?

When I am done with my three websites, I am going to spend time on my Illustrator skills :D

I just noticed Mac doesn't have Chrome yet.
-Adium is powerful IM according to Jimmy.
-CODA is good for website developer right? Have to find pirated way /scratch head.
-Never use Twitterific before, still using Tweetdeck.
-Terminal? I'll definitely check that out. Never heard of that.
-I'm in love with CMD+spacebar. Definitely will try out Quicksilver.

Thanks Andy

One solution: www.apple.com.my. Swipe your parent's card first. They only scold you, won't harm you physically... maybe rotan la. But you can tahan right?

iMac... best for illustrating and photshopping~

I use Safari as browser, Adium as IM, TextMate as text editor, Twitterrific as my Twitter client, Mail as mail, and Terminal for my geeky stuff.

QuickSilver is a must - application launcher.

I'm also a heavy shortcut keys user.

:D

it's gorgeous!!
i want an apple too!!!