Turned to the Mac side

Aaand...

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That's right! It's here! For those of you who don't know, this one has been dubbed Simba. All my computers are named after cats. All my portables are named after fictional cats. I'm planning on buying a MacBook Pro next year. For now, the MacBook is Simba. The MacBook Pro then logically will be Mufassa. Funtimes! After only a few hours of using Mac OS X, I've got to say, I'm a big fan. Not a 100% convert as yet but not far off I'd say. I'm really really liking it :)

So, here's what I've done with my Mac so far...

Locked down security
http://itinfo.mit.edu/article.php?id=6938


Started learning keyboard shortcuts (I live off the keyboard in Windows)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459

Enabled the root user
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.4/en/mh1549.html

Installed media players: Windows Media components for Mac, DivX for Mac, VLC for Mac

Visited MacTopia to install Windows Live Messenger for Mac and Remote Desktop Connection for Mac
www.microsoft.com/mac

Started playing with QuickSilver (according to this guide)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EBvFUhTqKK4

Enabled fast user switching for quick locking
http://www.macworld.com/weblogs/macosxhints/2006/01/lockscreen/index.php

Stopped .DS_Store being created all over my network (or anyone elses)
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2005070300463515

Enabled 'cut'... sort of... Hopefully Apple fix this one in Leopard?
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060626085238931

Learnt how to take screenshots:
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/02/28/screenshot.html

More to come sometime! For now I think I'll head off and install BootCamp to see how Windows runs on the new cub ;)