Confession time. 🙂
Overall, my PC-to-Mac conversion is going well. I successfully hopped on Panera’s free wireless network yesterday, albeit with a minor snag. The Safari browser does not like to be hijacked, which is a good thing in general, but because of this it won’t allow you to agree to Panera’s T&C document and thus not allow you to surf the internet. I had to use Firefox instead; it was minor, but still an annoyance.
Yesterday I enabled iSync’s conduit to synchronize my Palm and Apple’s iCal and Address Book programs. What I should have done first was look at iCal and Address Book, because they’re lousy compared to the Palm Desktop. When I tried to disable iSync, it wouldn’t allow my calendar and contact list to go back to the way it worked before. I had to completely remove iSync and the Palm Desktop program and reinstall in order to get things back to the way they were before. Now it’s okay again.
I successfully installed iLife ’05 last week and began to mess with iPhoto. I’ve been using a shareware slideshow/sorter program called ThumbsPlus for as long as I can remember, and this is more elaborate. A cool thing about iPhoto is that it allows you to create albums, so things like “Becky’s Concert” or “Emma’s Soccer” are easy to find now. I haven’t done a lot with its editing features beyond fixing some red eyes.
Not too many other snags so far. I’ll have more to report in the near future, I’m sure. Meanwhile, I’m defragging the hard drive on my ThinkPad, the disposition of which has yet to be determined.