Well, I am 10 days into my Month of Macintosh, and I have some things to report.

Renaming files in Finder is easy, but not very intuitive. Thanks to these folks for showing me the way.

Macs have some interesting screen capture options, but to execute them you need flexible fingers.

A client sent me an MS Word doument. This client likes to do very ‘fancy’ things in MS Word, such as overlaying text fields on top of images. As a result, I spent a good amount of time searching for a Mac/UNIX friendly program that would read this file correctly. Purchasing Office for Mac was not an option; I think giving Microsoft more money defeats the purpose of this game. Besides, I already have a Windows copy of Office, and I refuse to buy another one.

After trying a couple programs, I came across NeoOffice, a port of OpenOffice to the Mac’s Cocoa GUI. It rocks!

I have a lot of new keyboard shortcuts to learn. Some of the Mac shortcuts make more sense than their Windows counterparts, though. At this point, I am comfortable using COMMAND-[ and ] to go Back and Forward in Mac Firefox.

Cyberduck is a great FTP client.

I waste too much time staring at and configuring my Dashboard. iStat Pro is one hot widget!

I am enjoying my time in Macintosh world so far.

Cheers!