How to Switch to the Mac. …and enjoy doing it. Update: revisions for 2012 and Mountain Lion. You may also want to visit my Switch page, which tries to list suitable Mac OS X replacements for common Windows applications. Introduction Welcome! A lot of people have been moving to the Mac over the past few years, so a while back I thought I’d jot down a few notes about my experience over the last ten years or so.
This page is updated on a yearly basis (usually around the holiday season, which is when I get the most visits from new Mac owners or people pondering the switch). The motives for anyone switching will not be discussed here – discussing relative merits of computer platforms is very much like discussing cars, and therefore largely unimportant if you are getting what you want. My main point to begin with is that quasi-religious beliefs that any platform is better than another are not just irrelevant, but plain childish and stupid. The second (and quite frequent) issue is compatibility.
Buying Unpacking & Testing. LockTight for Mac OS X Intel | gkoya. Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6.x) Update (31 August 2009):Recompiled for Snow Leopard (10.6, build 10A432) and tested on my machine only.LockTight for Intel (v0.1.1) (zip archive, 106kbyte file, HTTP download)Sorry, there’s really no support for this. It’s just a courtesy to other Mac users. Plus, I am not a programmer…;-) When people “Switch” to the Mac, they often look for a one-keystroke or one-key-combo screen locker. And they’re often disappointed to find that the operating system only provides a two-click solution: add the Keychain Access menu item to the menubar, and then use “Lock Screen”.
So in came Menno Pieters, who built LockTight from Raging Menace‘s SleepTight code. …but it doesn’t work under Mac OS X for Intel-based hardware. Until now…because I got frustrated with myself for not having done it earlier… Presenting the Intel-compatible re-compile of LockTight. LockTight for Intel (tar, bzip. 88kbyte file, HTTP download) OS X. Online Backup, Computer Backup Software & Remote Backup – Carbonite.com.
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