Introducing Cult of Mac’s 100 Top Tips And Tricks For Windows Switchers

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Starting tomorrow, Cult of Mac will be publishing a series of posts simply called “100 Essential Mac tips and tricks for Windows switchers.”

These will be short, simple posts explaining one thing at a time. They’re aimed very squarely at people who don’t know much about OS X. Complete beginners who have only recently started using a Mac, and still don’t quite understand how it all fits together.

The posts are also a work in progress, and we’d love to hear your ideas for things that should be included on the list.

So if you are one of those newcomers to OS X and you have a question you want answered; or if you’re an experienced Mac user and have noticed something that your newbie friends always get wrong – let me know. I’ll be delighted to hear your suggestions and use the best ones in future posts.

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Giles Turnbull is a freelance writer in England. He writes for the Press Association and The Morning News. He has a website you can ignore and a Twitter account you needn't follow.

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  • Sean Williams

    One thing I noticed as a new Mac user is that there are a ton of handy menu options that only display then you hold the Option key while selecting the menu item. Still to new to know them all, but I think there should be a handy dandy list of the best ones.

  • Lee

    Yay! being only a couple of weeks into my conversion, this is exciting news :D

  • Christopher

    I’ve only been a Mac guy for about a year now and am still habitually learning OS X. Looking forward to this series!

  • Faye

    Cool! I switched a little over 2 years ago (during Leopard), but am always eager to learn new things to enjoy my Macs more. Sent the link to this feature to a couple of buddies who are more recent switchers so they can enjoy it also.

  • http://www.bitego.com Martin

    The 2 things I’m still missing most since my switch to Mac (2 years ago) are:
    1) missing CMD-X in Finder
    2) missing context menu to create a new empty file (.txt, .pages, .numbers, …) in the folder currently open in Finder

  • Dennis D

    How can I download PDF of all 100 Top Tips?

  • http://gilest.org Giles Turnbull

    Dennis D: once we’ve finished the series, we’ll let you know. :)