Y añado que acabo de ver justo ahora en Digg:
También recuperar el mítico post de Hugo sobre ¿Merece la pena comprarse un Mac?, que seguro ayudará a los que aún estéis indecisos.
Are you a Windows user who received a brand new Mac system over the holidays? Or, did you choose to make the switch yourself and you’re just getting to know your new Mac? There are a lot of important things to learn in order to stay efficient if you’re just making this switch. In this post, I’ll round up top tips to brush up on so that you can work better, faster and more securely on your new computer.
Get to Know Finder. Mac OS X is much better than Windows at quickly finding what you need on your computer. Click the icon that looks like two smiley faces staring at each other (above) to work with Finder. If you’ve used iTunes at all, you’ll find the interface for Finder to be very similar. In your sidebar, you’ll have a view of everything on your Mac, and everything connected to it. If you’re running the Leopard version of Mac OS X, use the Cover Flow button atop your Finder screen to get a slick graphical view of your documents and files.
New Keyboard Shortcuts. Keyboard shortcuts are quite different in Mac OS X than in Windows. Apple has a complete list of keyboard shortcuts. Spend some time familiarizing yourself with them. A few top shortcuts to note: Command-W (close window); Option-Command-W (close all windows); Shift-Command-Q (Apple menu logout); Option-Command-D (show or hide the Dock). Also look into the many keyboard shortcuts for working with windows in Mac OS X.
Learn How to Use the Dock. The Dock (the toolbar with icons at the bottom of your Mac OS X screen, seen below) is an extremely useful navigational tool. Do a little homework on shortcuts and hidden features for it, available at Apple’s site.
Hardware Tips. Apple systems are different from PCs in several ways. You may have a Power button directly on your keyboard, rather than your computer. If so, it looks like a circle with a slash through it. How do you do the equivalent of a right mouse click in Windows? To do so, hold down the Control key on your keyboard and click the mouse to bring up a context menu. Also, on your keyboard, the Command/Apple key is the replacement for the Ctrl key on a Windows system, and the Option key is the replacement for the Alt key.
Going on Safari. If you’re used to the Internet Explorer, Firefox or Opera browsers on Windows, spend a little time brushing up on the Safari browser. There are quick video tutorials online for how to use tabs in Safari and how to configure your RSS feeds.
Investigate Free Mac Apps. There are a lot of good developers out there who provide good, free software applications for the Mac, and you can quickly download lots of gems. Investigate TinyApps.org’s long list of Mac OS X apps, and Version Tracker, and see my previous post and the reader comments there on other sites for finding free, useful applications.
Easy Uninstalls. One of the really nice features about the Mac operating system as opposed to Windows is that you’re applications don’t get littered all around your hard drive; instead, they’re in one central Program folder. Just drag an application from the folder to the trash can to uninstall.
Optimize Your Improved Wi-Fi. If you have a new Mac notebook and you previously used 802.11g Wi-Fi for your home wireless networking with Windows, you can greatly improve the Wi-Fi performance you get by purchasing an Apple Airport Extreme router. These routers use next-generation Draft-802.11n wireless technology, which you should have in your new Mac notebook as well. The performance is miles ahead of 802.11g Wi-Fi with a Windows notebook.
Stick with Windows. Many Mac users now run both Windows and the Mac OS on their machines. A good way to do this is to run Parallels, which lets you have Windows as a virtual machine on your Mac. You can also use Apple’s own Boot Camp software.
Taking Screenshots. Taking screenshots doesn’t work on the Mac the same way that it does in Windows. Review Apple’s notes for quick ways to get up to speed.
Built-In Security. Mac OS X ships with firewall software built in. Especially if you use public Wi-Fi hotspots a lot, get to know your configuration options with the firewall.
There are many other good sources online for information on switching from Windows to the Mac. A little research is well worth the effort.
Do you have any good tips for new Mac users coming from the Windows world?
Muchos profesores utilizan Internet como recurso docente. En una primera fase, los profesores simplemente trasladaban a formato digital sus materiales, recursos y enlaces. Actualmente Internet ofrece a los profesores una amplia variedad de herramientas y aplicaciones que mejoran las posibilidades de comunicación y colaboración. Una de estas herramientas son los Blogs.
La versatilidad del formato blog como herramienta de gestión y publicación de contenidos en la Web ofrece diversas posibilidades de uso educativo que cada vez más docentes van descubriendo y experimentando. Esa flexibilidad, junto con su sencillez de manejo, permite que se puedan “adaptar a cualquier disciplina, nivel educativo y metodología docente” .
- Aprovechamiento didáctico de los blogs de Alejandro Valero visitar artículo .
- Los blogs en áreas curriculares de Jose Luis Cabello visitar artículo .
- El uso del blog en clase de lengua de Felipe Zayas visitar artículo .
- Alfabetización Digital con Blogs de Tiscar Lara visitar artículo .
- Publicar un Blog de forma libre y responsable de Tiscar Lara visitar artículo.
- La nueva Web social: blogs, wikis, RSS y marcadores sociales de Jose Cuerva visitar artículo .
- Instalación del WordPress Multiusuario de Cgaro Fernández visitar artículo .
Para todos vosotros, gente que da sus primeros pasos con un Mac, he recopilado algunos enlaces a ciertos artículos de Applesfera que os pueden ser de gran utilidad. Se trata de enlaces a guías que os facilitarán la entrada a este mundo y os recomendarán aplicaciones imprescindibles para instalar en estos primeros días que tenéis vuestro sistema limpio y fresco.
Vamos con todo ello en la entrada extendida.
Y esto ha sido todo, también os recomiendo esta guía por si tenéis algún problema con el Mac estos primeros días y que no descuidéis las tareas de mantenimiento ya que al instalar y desinstalar tanto software bien os conviene ejecutar alguna rutina de mantenimiento de vez en cuando.
Que vuestros primeros pasos con un Mac sean una experiencia agradable. Vida larga y próspera.
Every Geek uses Gmail… it's pretty much required. And now you can set Gmail as the default client in Ubuntu without any extra software. (Windows requires the Gmail notifier be installed)
Just go to System \ Preferences \ Preferred Applications
Under Mail Reader, select Custom, and then put this into the Command window, changing "geek" to your username.
/home/geek/open_mailto.sh %s
Next, you'll need to save this shell script into your user directory ( /home/username ). [Download]
For the curious, here's the contents of the script:
#!/bin/sh
firefox https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&to=`echo $1 | sed 's/mailto://'`
If you'd like to make the script open a new tab in an existing Firefox window, you can replace the firefox line in the script with the following:
firefox -remote "openurl(https://mail.google.com/mail?view=cm&tf=0&to=`echo $1 | sed 's/mailto://'`,new-tab)"
Update: If you want to make the script file hidden by default, you can rename it with a . at the beginning of the file like this: .open_mailto.sh. You'll have to change the path in the preferences, of course.
Open a terminal and type in the following command, to make the script executable:
chmod u+x ~/open_mailto.sh
Now it should be working.
To test it out… I clicked the contact link on my page… and it immediately opened in Gmail.
Note that if you aren't logged into Gmail you'll be prompted to login to gmail… and you'll have to click the email link again. Seems like Gmail's login redirector won't open the send mail page. But then again… why aren't you logged into Gmail?
Update: Changed to point to a script so that the mailto: tag would be removed. Thanks VERY much to Mr Linux for not just noticing, but giving me the working script.
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Algunas reglas básicas:Esos artículos cubren la base del método Getting Things Done.
- por que es importante tener la cabeza vacía
- las dos preguntas que usas para procesar tus cosas
- uso de la bandeja de entrada
- ley de dos minutos
Una herramienta interesante es el Calendario Compacto para 2007 para planificar el año.
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Today web-based word processor Zoho Writer moves further into Microsoft Word’s territory with the announcement of offline editing capabilities. Zoho enabled offline read-only review of documents in August.
With features like this, Zoho’s office apps might someday entirely replace Microsoft Office in the toolbox of many web workers. But other online word processors take what looks like a complementary approach. For example, recently-announced Live Documents integrates web-based editing and collaboration with Microsoft Office using an “embrace and extend” strategy. And Google Docs, at least for now, serves mainly for real-time collaborative editing of lightweight online documents.
Last week, startup InstaColl announced its preview of Live Documents. Live Documents joins desktop and web applications by wrapping Microsoft Office with a collaboration capability that allows for offline editing of documents and later resynchronization.
Meanwhile, where’s Google? They have an offline capability in Google Gears (which Zoho used to implement Writer’s offline feature) and have used it to give Google Reader offline capabilities. But so far, we haven’t heard any announcement of offline support for Google Docs. Perhaps Google as well sees its online word processor as more a complement to than a replacement of MS Word.
When Zoho released its read-only offline capability for Zoho Writer in August, Google responded to questions about when they might offer disconnected Google Docs with no firm answer, telling AppScout blogger Brian Heater that they would add new features when enough users had requested them.
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Estamos a punto de celebrar el primer mes con Leopard, y lo mejor que podemos hacer para conmemorar la ocasión es tener a mano esta excelente entrada en Usingmac.com, con más de 200 útiles atajos de teclado para Leopard.
Probablemente ya estéis usando muchos de ellos, pero una lista como ésta, ordenada por categorías es perfecta para extraer nuestra propia lista de atajos o para consultarla en cualquier momento...
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Imagen | The Box (por Kevin, en Flickr)
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