Category: Geeks r Us
I'll be getting my Mac some time this week. I've pretty much finished uploading all my mp3s to divshare.com, and what I'd like to know is how do I download them to the Mac. Firstly, they're all zipped, so I'd either need to unzip them with Windows or find a Mac program for that. Secondly, once they're unzipped, how do I play them? Do I have to actually load them all into ITunes or can I just put them in a folder and play them like I would with Windows Media Player. Say that I actually did that, and saved it to My Music using Windows. Could I still access them once I went back into Leopard? I hope so, cuase I might have to do that, since some of them use Greek letters etc in their titles. Oh, before I forget. What is the difference between the Tiger and Leopard systems? Thanks.
Ok. Let's tackle the iTunes question.
You could play them from a folder if you like, but it's a whole lot more desireable to import all your music into the iTunes folder. A Mac will open zip files, so that won't be a problem for you at all. Just create a folder with your mp3's somewhere, and iTunes will help you to import them. Remember, with the Mac, it is absolutely imperative that you get your head out of the Windows paradigm of doing things. If you don't, you will only be very frustrated.
Tiger and Leopard systems are very different, but you won't have to worry, because if your computer is brand new, it'll come with Leopard, and you don't want to downgrade. Trust me!
Thanks. Yeah, I don't get the Mac way of doing things. I was told it's very similar to Windows by the guy at the store. But ok, I'll make the folder and then just dump the other folders etc in it. Glad it can handle zip and that I don't have to worry about Tiger. No, this is one situation where I absolutely don't want to downgrade. I really am gonna need help understanding all of this. Still, if I can teach myself Modern Greek, I think I could learn this.
Everyone always says that it's so much different than windows, but I don't see a lot of differences, accept maybe in the terminology used, and a few other keystrokes. But now I have a question. I've been listening to a lot of Mac related podcasts and I always hear about the term "interacting" with something. From what I've been able to gather, this happens when you have to choose something from what the mac refers to as a table, which would be similar to a edit combo box or a combo box of some kind, and you have to do a keystroke to interact with said part of the screen, and maybe another to stop interacting with that area, maybe it's the same exact one? and is this idea of "interacting" with certain areas of the screen an idea that voice-over uses, or is this a thing that anyone using a mac without voice-over turned on would have to do with the mouse? I reallyam trying to understand some of this stuff.
Definitely a Voiceover thing. For instance, when a web page loads, there are many different elements of the screen. There's a tool bar, an address bar, a bookmarks bar, scroll bars, and the html document itself. When using the voiceover commands to navigate the page, and you arrow over the toolbar, the computer tells you so. In order to use that toolbar, you press the voiceover keys, + shift + down arrow to interact. It then lets you press any uttons on the toolbar you need. When you want to stop nteracting, same key combo, except the up arrow is used. To read HTML, you interact the same way with the html area of the screen. It keeps things far less cluttered.
Very, very interesting! and that whole down to interact, up to stop interact thing actually makes sense. It certainly is different than windows is though, that's for sure. But i don't think that would require someone to forget everything they know about windows, they would just need to remember which os they're in and perform the necessary keystrokes. Thanks for the explanation!
The whole arrangement of OS-10 is more like Linux than Windows, so even though Windows and OSX are quite interoperable, it's still quite a difference. Mind you, however, OSX took me a full hour to learn how to get around, while Windows took weeks.