The Qwertyrash Blogs

Lately with the resurgence of the Mac, sites are springing up, and articles are being written on switching. New sites since last update are marked with an asterisk (*)

To make life easier for switchers, I am going to collate them on this page as I come across them. Let me know of any others you find:

• * Learn to Mac is another site full of tutorials on using your Mac
• * Screencasts Online has many video tutorials on using your Mac, as well as your iPod.
• * How do i mac.com is full of video tutorials on doing things on your Mac
• Apple Matter’s A Switcher’s Guide to Windows and Mac Differences and Equivalents
• Apple’s Get a Mac pages
• Switch To a Mac website
• TechWeb’s Switching To The Mac: A Guide For Windows Users
• Flernk’s Guide to OS X Software for Switchers
• BoydCreative’s Tips for a Mac Switcher
• Winn Schwartau’s, (a Windows consultant and guru) Mad as hell, switching to Mac story of his switch to a Mac
• CrossOSS: The cross platform software database. Lists many applications that run on both Macs and Windows
• A developer switches to a mac. One user’s thoughts on and experiences of switching
• Switch To Mac’s switching series:

• -How to Switch Part One: Key Questions
• -How to Switch Part Two: Where To Start?
• -How to Switch Part Three: What Kind Of User Are You?
• -How to Switch Part Four: Mac Hardware Benefits and Purchasing
• -How to Switch Part Five: The Misconception Macs Are Too Expensive
• -How to Switch Part Six: Learn To Use Mac OS X
• -How to Switch Part Seven: Easily Use Your Files On A Mac
• -How to Switch Part Eight: Setup a New Mac

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Peter Wright, an accomplished author who has been writing about Microsoft technologies since Visual Basic 3 (including some best selling Visual Basic books), recently decided to drop Microsoft completely and switch to Macintosh and Ruby on Rails. In this blog posts he details the circumstances that led to his decision.
This is one of the best […]

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Computers are distraction devices. I don’t know about you, but at any one time, I can have more than 20 applications running. These include: two email programs; an RSS newsreader; one or two browsers; Word; an image editor; and a slew of other apps.

What this means is not that my computer runs slow - I have 1GB of memory so most times it’s fine - but that each of those programs is a potential distraction - especially the ones that talk to the internet.

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Yesterday, and article I posted on Apple Matters went front page on Digg. It contained links to both an article on Qwertyrash (Switching to Mac: Useful sites and articles), and CrossOSS.From the experience I learned (re-learned?) some useful things.

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A lot of people see Blogging as a get rich quick scheme with little effort required. Nothing could be further from the truth. If you want to make a living from blogging, you are going to have to develop the habit of working hard on it.

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But the truth is, I’ve owned one or more Macs since summer 2005, and I’m a big fan of Mac OS X, albeit one who is perhaps more honest about the system’s shortcomings than the typical Mac fanatic.

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The most interesting potential use is described here:Home users could create virtual “partitions” isolating multiple user environments such as dedicating resources to a PC game, productivity, and personal video recorder-type environmentsPotential uses under Apple’s implementation of the Intel processors, of course, the possibility to launch multiple operating systems, such as Windows and Linux alongside Mac OS X.

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One of the problems I’ve encountered whilst blogging - especially on my product blog, Go Play AV - is the need for either a very large screen, or two screens.

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Walt Mossberg puts forward an article to those who might consider switching to Apple Macs. There is one sentence that really stood out for me:

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Last week, in The Seattle Times - right in Microsoft’s heartland - journalist Paul Andrews wrote and article exhorting readers to dump Windows computers, and switch to Apple Macs.
Hardly a week goes by that I don’t hear from a friend or colleague with a monumental Windows problem.
I tell them I’m glad to help, on one […]

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