
I can’t emphasize how much! You can open it with a simple shortcut and then it lets you open all your apps by just typing a few letters in.

That’s quite handy when you always have lots of windows and programs open. You can assign behaviors to every corner of your screen so that when you move the curser into that corner some action will be triggered. This nifty little feature is found in your ‘mission control’ – that’s where you find your ‘settings’ (yeah, it sounds so much cooler on a Mac).

And that’s when those neat little programs and tricks come into play that I’ll show you now. Just like Neo in his new surrounding it obviously does not hurt to have some pointers, guidelines and helpers to support you in your adventures. So be happy about the change, stay open minded, and let the fun begin. That’s why you switch from Windows to another product, right? It’s like Neo being freed from the Matrix and then complaining that the real world is so different to what he’s used to from the Matrix. And yes, let me say it loud and clear: It works not like on windows. “That’s not how it works on windows” is one complaint that comes up regularly. The typical mistake by new Mac OS/X users is that they try to copy their windows behavior and take it over to their apple experience. Look here – and forget everything you know about how operating systems work.

Since a friend of mine now just got a MacBook and seems to struggle quite a bit I figured I could give some brief pointers in order to make the start into the MacBoook adventure a bit smoother. This website is largely written and composed on a Mac and while I don’t consider myself an Apple fanboy (swearing on my xiaomi phone!) I do like my MacBook and the accompanying OS / X and Apple Mac applications.
