Hi. You said something that caught my attention and I'm hoping you can explain further. I have been using my iMac now for a little over a month. I'm not sure if I would call myself a switcher, since I still think Windows has a lot of value for me, but the one thing I do miss is not being able to talk with my MSN Messenger friends. People have recommended Adium, but I have not had much luck getting it to work. Did you say you use MSN Messenger on your Mac? I didn't know this was possible? If you could explain, I would be ever so grateful, as I really miss chatting on MSN Messenger and there are friends that I haven't been able to talk to since switching to the Mac.
On Oct 21, 2009, at 1:05 AM, a radix wrote: > Hello, I have been using my mac for about 2 months now especially at > school although at home I still often use my pc and I will explain > below why. In general my experiences with the mac have been very > positive especially after installing snow leopard. I can use skype > and msn just as well as on my pc. And after I dumped itunes and > started using vlc instead watching movies and listening to music > became a breeze. I recently bought apples office suite because I > prefer that over using textedit or the free text editors/office > suits that are available. I am also intending to go and use garage > band in the future if I can get that working with my yamaha > keyboard. I like the built-in speakers and sound quality alhtough > listening through its sound output with my own in ear monitors is > nothing special. I still find using the internet on the mac a bit > mor ework then i did while using my pc and it goes a bit slower also > when reading docucments i notice that I cannot endlessly use the > right thumb key on my braille display to continue reading, > eventually i have to press the right arrow on my normal keyboard if > I want to read onm. This does become irritating after a while if you > need to read long documents. > At home I still mostly use my windows pc although i now have gotten > mail working on the mac as well because 1. I use omnipage pro 16 > under windows to scan my books for school, while I know that there > are some scanning solutions for the mac that i will probbably try > once the hp drivers for sl have been released I just dont know if > they will be as good and easy as using omnipage pro 16 and am a bit > hesistant to try it because of that (I really really hope that a > full version of finereader will eventually be released for the mac > since I have heard it can rival omnipage pro). > Secondly there is filesharing, i will be brief. Ftp does work on the > mac with transmit which I rather like although I have not registered > it yet, questions i asked its support team went unanswered. Usenet > also works but udner windows I preferred to use other programs which > are not available on the mac. > The third point is playing games which I do a lot on the pec > especially interactive fiction and muds. There is an interpreter for > interactive fiction called zoom which I tried and although I can > open games with it saved games were a problem for me since I could > not open a saved game file (made in frotz). > For muds the situation on the mac is not so good, I play them all > the time on windows but there is only one mudclient that I know of > which works under sl and which is still being developed, jamochamud > which works under java. It is not too accessible at the moment but > the programmer has promised to look at it, still it does not offer > all the features even then that I am used to on a windows client. > As soon as windows 7 becomes officially available I am planning to > install it on my mac (probbably via bootcamp) so that I at least can > use my mac all the time even if I need to use windows, hopefully for > the scanning and downloading tasks I will in the future be able to > use the mac and I have hopes for muds as well but for now at least > my mac is mostly used at school and in the library. > Greetings, Anouk, > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
