Judderman's iMac support thread

judderman62

that'd be support sought by me Lol

well some of you, especially MartyJ, may recall me talking some months ago about making the move to a Mac. well last Friday I went out and bought the iMac - 24 inch screen.

so hope some of you helpful types don't mind me asking the odd (OK maybe quite a few) questions on here whilst I am in my infancy of mac ownership ? All help of course greatly appreciated :beer::beer:

So I immeadiately forgot 1st couple of things I wanted to ask - OK just found one. Safari seems to spell check on the fly. When a word is squigly red underlined how do I bring up a list of suggested spelling corrections please ?

Thanks

Judds

judderman62

oh yes that was the other one - how the heck do i get links to open in a new tab not window. A book I have on the mac says cmd and click but that is opening new window not tab btw I have the wireless keyboard with no numeric keypad.

Marty_J

judderman62 wrote: »

well some of you, especially MartyJ, may recall me talking some months ago about making the move to a Mac. well last Friday I went out and bought the iMac - 24 inch screen.

Congrats!

Safari seems to spell check on the fly. When a word is squigly red underlined how do I bring up a list of suggested spelling corrections please?

You need to right-click on the misspelt word. Or, if you have right-clicking turned off (System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Mouse), hold down ctrl and click on it.

Another cool little dictionary trick is if you hold down ctrl-cmd-d, it'll give you the definition of whatever word you mouse over. You can also look up words in Wikipedia by opening a word in the dictionary and then clicking the Wikipedia tab.

judderman62 wrote: »

oh yes that was the other one - how the heck do i get links to open in a new tab not window. A book I have on the mac says cmd and click but that is opening new window not tab btw I have the wireless keyboard with no numeric keypad.

cmd-click works for me. Go to Safari > Preferences > General, and make sure "Open links from Applications" is set to "In a new tab in the current window".

Also, if you go into the mouse preferences (System Preferences > Keyboard & Mouse > Mouse) and change the scroll ball to "Button 3", you can click a link with the scroll ball, and it'll open it in a new tab.

If you're using Safari, you might be interested in Safari AdBlock.

If you have any more questions, feel free to ask.

judderman62

thanks Marty

how do I check if right clicking is on ? Both buttons have "primary button" selected from the drop down menu - should the right one be secondary button ? - I see no mention of right clicking anywhere in the mouse prefs screen

ah yes ctrl+ click works thanks - doubtless I'll forget this in 10 seconds

I have taken a lot of books out of library so hopefully they will help too. I'm guessing though after 10 years of PC ownership it's gonna take me quite some time to get used to the new ways of doing stuff.

I don't have a general section in my system prefs Mart - ah my bad was looking in the whole computers prefs not safari's , found that now and done that - will test in a second.

Does adblock slow the system any or have any downside of any sort ?

Thanks for all that and for offer of further help.

Marty_J

judderman62 wrote: »

how do I check if right clicking is on ? Both buttons have "primary button" selected from the drop down menu - should the right one be secondary button ? - I see no mention of right clicking anywhere in the mouse prefs screen

Yes, the secondary button refers to right clicking.

I have taken a lot of books out of library so hopefully they will help too. I'm guessing though after 10 years of PC ownership it's gonna take me quite some time to get used to the new ways of doing stuff.

Yeah, it takes a little while to get used to, but you'll get there. You'll be trying to close windows in Windows by clicking in the top left corner soon.

Does adblock slow the system any or have any downside of any sort ?

It just stops Safari from loading ads; if anything, it'll make web-browsing faster as ads can take longer to download than the rest of the page. Once in a blue moon it'll block something you don't want it to block, but it adds a button to Safari to enable/disable it, so turning it off for a second isn't a problem.

Thanks for all that and for offer of further help.

You're welcome!

judderman62

OK next few questions.

could any of you lovely folk recommend a few of the best mac forums to join - most active, very knowledgeable members etc.

Secondly what is the best mac equivalent to dvd flick i used to use on my pc - pref free software.

looking for a child easy one to use to converrt just about any format to something ic an burn to dvd - dvd flick was childs play easy and you culd even throw several files of different formats at it , couple of clicks and hey presto you had a video_ts and audio_ts file to burn to dvd.

BikerEd

judderman62 wrote: »

Secondly what is the best mac equivalent to dvd flick i used to use on my pc - pref free software.

Use the iDVD that comes bundled with the machine. It's a superb piece of software. If you want to edit the movie you are burning in any way then use iMovie first, then export it to iDVD for burning. Apple have lots of tutorials on their website. There are also some good books on using the iMovie/iDVD/Garageband/iPhoto suite.

If for any reason you have movies that aren't in the right format then ffmpegx will do a grand job of converting them.

judderman62

thanks for that can idvd convert formats itself ? or do I need to use the other one you mentioned ?

have heard of one called handbrake - does that do what I need - had a very quick look other day and it talked about outputting to diff formats but I saw nothing saying it could accept various and output ts files - though, as i said, i did only have a quick read



it's as much that that I am looking for - with dvdflick (superd prog) you could chuck in an mpeg, a wmv and avi anything and mixed files even - so say one of each of afore mentioned and it would convert and spit out ts files ready to burn - also allowed you to put chapter stops as often as you wanted - truly fab piece of software

redwin11

judderman62 wrote: »

OK next few questions.

could any of you lovely folk recommend a few of the best mac forums to join - most active, very knowledgeable members etc.

I'd say MacRumors is the best, but there's a lot of good ones out there.

Marty_J

judderman62 wrote: »

could any of you lovely folk recommend a few of the best mac forums to join - most active, very knowledgeable members etc.

The official Apple discussion forums are a good place to start.

Secondly what is the best mac equivalent to dvd flick i used to use on my pc - pref free software.

ffmpegX will convert pretty much anything to anything.

iMovie and iDVD are also surprisingly powerful consumer-level tools for working with video.

judderman62

Marty_J wrote: »

The official Apple discussion forums are a good place to start.



ffmpegX will convert pretty much anything to anything.

iMovie and iDVD are also surprisingly powerful consumer-level tools for working with video.

thanks Marty and all who have answered thus far :beer: