MacWorld

Okay, I'll use the glass half full approach and try and present my Mac experiences positively. I just do not feel at home on the Mac. THE Mac. Not  MY Mac. I have got it all running in French and that was a piece of cake. I downloaded French Firefox and it was taking me to French sites. Now all of that is really, really good because it keeps up my language skills. I like the widgets which come up with a simple button click. I downloaded an aquarium. The music sounds tinny but the  fish are a happy diversion from work! It stopped working though , as did Firefox. You cannot customise Firefox like on Windows but a Mac is not about personal computing, it's about using programmes to do stuff. The iPhotos is  really good. Garage Band has been a big hit with others. I downloaded DeskCover and that has put my desktop icons into a darker area to the right and it adjusts itself depending on how many icons I have. I like the dock because you can adjust the size of the icons and I had it doing a Mexican wave which amused me for quite a while. It goes well on the wifi at work but at home it's woeful and I used a fix and haven't had time to see whether that has resolved my home wifi issues. Doesn't really matter . I just bolt it onto the router with the ethernet cable and then it just goes like a rocket.  It jammed up though when I had loaded a CD and downloaded programmes and then it didn't want to go back on the Net. With 2 gig of RAM it oughtn't to have those sorts of problems. The mouse is fantastic. The best mouse ever by a long shot. Customising system preferences is really easy. I found Terminal and that is my idea of a good time. I wrote in the code to have the laptop talking to me and everyone else. I wrote in the code to send an email to someone whose address I could remember. That was so easy and such a bonus because it means you don't have to go through a browser or email client. For quick notes to someone it's rather like Twitter. Gotta love that. So now I am thinking I might need to familiarise myself with Unix. I can at least relate to that.