Here we go, time for my first real blogpost.
Let’s start with introducing myself. My name is Fox, well not really of course but let’s just imagine it is. I’m a young IT guy who recently got a new and exciting job. Without going into too much detail, the new company that I work for does a lot of things in the magical Cloud. And come on?! How awesome is that! When I saw the ad for this job I knew I had to get it.
“I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.” -Banksy
So here I am, got a new job, new life goals and a new OS to work with. Yeah, I guess I forgot to mention that part earlier. So I am what they call a Windows fanboy. Which in turns mean that I dislike, to say the least, Mac OS X. I guess all the times that I denied people help as they were using a Mac is coming back to bite me in the butt. Cause ladies and gentlemen, I’m writing this all from my new Mac machine….
So what is the first thing I did? Yes, you probably guessed it. Changed as many things as possible to get Windows feeling.
- The trackpad, this lil monster needed some adjustments in the System Preferences.
- Turn on tap to click (Why is this off by default, my whole office is making noise because of this)
- Change secondary click to actual right click.
- Last but not least the scrolling, yes it might be “natural” unless you worked with other laptops your whole life.
- The dragging option is amazing though too bad it’s off by default and hard to find.
- Go to System Preferences, Accessibility, Mouse and Trackpad, Trackpad Options.
- Alt+Tab or for Mac Cmd+Tab is not for going through all your windows.. not it’s to go through your applications.
- Using Cmd+~ to do what Cmd+Tab should do
- First thing that bothered me is that pressing maximise always does something weird or at least not something I want. Especially after the Yosemite update, as the button now changed from maximise to fullscreen.
- Pressing Alt changes the fullscreen button into a maximise to content button.
- Pressing Alt+Shift changes the fullscreen button into a maximise (original) button.
- Not having a Del key is also annoying but I did find a way to do the same with backspace.
- Using the Function key and Backspace does the same thing, just need to watch out and don’t use the Cmd key 😉
“Change in all things is sweet.”
-Aristotle
I’m probably forgetting some other changes that I’ve made. I’ll get back to that in later posts. For now it’s time to call it a day!
And it’s official my first ever blogpost is online =)
Fox in the Cloud 