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I've named the iMac Freyja, for the Norse goddess. Because Freyja is, among other things, the goddess of beauty, and my Freyja is beautiful indeed. And that she is goddess-like goes without saying. And I liked the idea of making it a Scandinavian name, since my Freyja's all white and sleek and modern and Ikea-like.
One thing I worried I'd have a hard time getting used to with OS X is the way windows don't maximize to fill the whole screen. But I got used to it in about an hour and now I prefer it, to the extent that when I'm using the windows laptop I resize the screens to make them look more like they do on the mac!
I also LOVE the expose feature - it's a great thing for multitaskers like me.
I'm also enjoying Apple's mail client. My only other experience with onboard mail clients being outlook express, which I find slow and awkward and a total resource hog. Apple mail is clean and light and user-friendly. And iPhoto does a really impressive job with its "enhance" feature; for the few photos the enhance didn't quite work for, one of the other effects features usually does the trick. I don't love the way it keeps everything in the library even once I've sorted stuff into folders, but I'll get over it. I use flickr more for picture organization anyway.
The onboard speakers are also surprisingly good.
Anyway, one day I'll write about something other than Freyja. But right now I have to make something to eat and then Supernatural, yay!
ETA: I complained about Flickr uploader's incompatibility with Intel Macs a few days ago. I searched around and found jUploader, which is a pretty good alternative, plus it's nice-looking and so far runs smoothly.
One thing I worried I'd have a hard time getting used to with OS X is the way windows don't maximize to fill the whole screen. But I got used to it in about an hour and now I prefer it, to the extent that when I'm using the windows laptop I resize the screens to make them look more like they do on the mac!
I also LOVE the expose feature - it's a great thing for multitaskers like me.
I'm also enjoying Apple's mail client. My only other experience with onboard mail clients being outlook express, which I find slow and awkward and a total resource hog. Apple mail is clean and light and user-friendly. And iPhoto does a really impressive job with its "enhance" feature; for the few photos the enhance didn't quite work for, one of the other effects features usually does the trick. I don't love the way it keeps everything in the library even once I've sorted stuff into folders, but I'll get over it. I use flickr more for picture organization anyway.
The onboard speakers are also surprisingly good.
Anyway, one day I'll write about something other than Freyja. But right now I have to make something to eat and then Supernatural, yay!
ETA: I complained about Flickr uploader's incompatibility with Intel Macs a few days ago. I searched around and found jUploader, which is a pretty good alternative, plus it's nice-looking and so far runs smoothly.
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The name works reeeeally nicely with the iPod, though. :)