PC to Apple - making the switch

[Glen-BoB]

I am going to be making the switch to a macbook in the near future and i just wanted to have a place that i could throw out some questions if i had them. my first question is what do i need to do with my external drive to make it compatible with the macbook. all of my photos music movies etc. are on an external drive that is PC formatted. I assume i can't just plug this into a macbook and off i go. what do i need to do?

thanks.

 

[Horhay]

I was going to tell him that too RK lol, also some EA games require you to open certain ports in order to work properly.

 

[BlueCali]

yep, you need to change NAT to open and set your PS3 IP to a static address and make that the DMZ server.

 

[Horhay]

yep, you need to change NAT to open and set your PS3 IP to a static address and make that the DMZ server.

I just made the PS3 static didn't need to open ports or create a DMZ server.

 

[BlueCali]

I just made the PS3 static didn't need to open ports or create a DMZ server.

It makes so there is no restrictions, faster speeds. Also hardwire> wireless.

 

[Horhay]

It makes so there is no restrictions, faster speeds. Also hardwire> wireless.

I know what its for, I just didn't feel the need to make it. We were getting decent speeds up and down so I decided to leave it alone.

 

[Glen-BoB]

i haven't tried any of these things yet. my bride is away and i dunno what the username and password is, hahaha. hopefully she'll get back to me today.

 

[BlueCali]

admin
password

is usually what it is at routerlogin.com for netgear routers.

 

[Glen-BoB]

so where does one go to check out the apps he can buy for his macbook??? or is it just you can buy apps for other things WITH the macbook

 

[Glen-BoB]

is there a word processor that comes with the Macbook? I really don't even need a processor, just something like Notepad or Wordpad.

nvmnd, i found it. Textedit.

 

[Glen-BoB]

Another question for y'all. how do you uninstall a program? do you just simply drag it to the trash from the finder or is there another procedure? thanks again.

 

[ROADKILL31]

Another question for y'all. how do you uninstall a program? do you just simply drag it to the trash from the finder or is there another procedure? thanks again.

In most cases you can just drag it from the applications folder in finder to the trash

 

[Glen-BoB]

perfect. got a feeling ima gonna be doing allot of this with the new App Store.

 

[Glen-BoB]

What is Growl? it's a software of some sort that wants to update. looks kinda sketchy to me.

 

[BlueCali]

What is Growl? it's a software of some sort that wants to update. looks kinda sketchy to me.

http://growl.info/about.php

 

[Glen-BoB]

So i finally getting around to checking the settings of my router. Holly already had the WAN settings set the way you suggested, NAT to open and Disabled SIP ALG. In other words I have no idea what the problem could be now. I reset both the router and the modem so we'll see what that does for me.

 

[Glen-BoB]

Hi guys I'm back, haha. How does one uninstall a program from the MacBook? Do you just drag and drop it in the trash. I don't see anywhere to "uninstall".

 

[Horhay]

Hi guys I'm back, haha. How does one uninstall a program from the MacBook? Do you just drag and drop it in the trash. I don't see anywhere to "uninstall".

Yup, or you can download AppZapper which gets rid of the folders applications install and do not get deleted. It's called the uninstaller that Apple forgot! lol

It's pretty awesome app, I'd suggest you to get it. Not sure if it is still freeware though.

 

[ROADKILL31]

You could also just drag the app to the trash

 

[Glen-BoB]

You could also just drag the app to the trash

me like dragging to the garbage.

another rather rediculous question. A friend of mine is thinking of making the switch but he's worried about Word files. If he creates a Word file using the MS Office suite for Mac will it open seemlessly Word for PC or will there be some screwing around.

Thanks.

oh ya, and another. I'm very confused when using the iPhoto app. I have a shitload of photos on an external drive that I thought I'd like to have in this program to organize them. when I import them do they get copied to the HD somewhere or does the program leave them where they were and just view them from there? I'd rather not import them if it's gonna put them all on my HD cause there is allot of them and will eat up my drive.

 

[Horhay]

me like dragging to the garbage.

another rather rediculous question. A friend of mine is thinking of making the switch but he's worried about Word files. If he creates a Word file using the MS Office suite for Mac will it open seemlessly Word for PC or will there be some screwing around.

Thanks.

There shouldn't be any problems opening documents made in mac on Windows machines and viceversa.