[Hidden-tech] Mac tech advice sought

[Shel Horowitz]

At 3:23 PM -0400 9/25/07, Wendyfoxmy at aol.com wrote:
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>I'm trying to upgrade my "home business" operation (Mac) to 
>interface better with my clients.  I'm looking for advice with 
>specific applications and some challenges with my current technology 
>(hardware and software).
>Thanks, in advance.
>Wendy Foxmyn

OS X 10.4 is superior in many ways to previous operating systems--but 
it has a number of quirks. Among them: moving folders around doesn't 
always work the way you think it will, and if you get it wrong, 
unexpected things happen--like having a folder vanish from your tool 
bar with a poof sound, or trying to copy a large folder to an 
external drive only to have all 178 items open instead.

I find that for most collaboration, Word and Excel are fine. They're 
cross-platform. You have to warn your clients on Vista to save it in 
the 1998-2004 format, however.

Also, when you search in the inder with Spotlight, it defaults 
stupidly to the very slow search for a text string within a document. 
You have to change the first criterion to name and make sure you type 
your filename search string in the correct place.

Oh, and you may find you want something much more robust than AOL for 
email. I love Eudora.


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