[macvoiceover] Re: Having trouble making the switch from windows
- From: James Dean <professordean@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: macvoiceover@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:09:44 -0400
I use VMWare Fusion, because I too cannot totally convert to Mac. Most notably
when solving captious or mudding because one of the muds I play has a sound
pack, and the sound pack is written specifically for a windows client. Fusion
lets you run windows directly alongside OSX and it is just like you have a
little windows machine hanging around. I have a podcast that details how to set
up an XP Virtual machine and using a hotkey utility called "SharpKeys." The
podcast is located at www.blindcooltech.com.
I have a bootcamp option as well, although i only use that to run a topspeed
server. You cannot use VMWare fusion to do this because the virtual machine
uses a bridge of sorts to connect to the internet, which has the annoyance of
not letting windows have a proper internal router IP, even though OSX does,
such as 192.168.1.4, which of course means that port forwarding is impossible,
because it will forward the port to OSX. If it weren't for this, I'd rather
make my bootcamp partition go away. Oh, one more thing, there is a nintendo 64
emulator, called project 64 that I can't get to work with the Virtual Machine.
I get a graphics driver error and the program won't work. It runs fine on
Bootcamp though. There are things I use on Mac that I will never go back to
using on Windows, such as Adium in place of Miranda-IM, and Mail in place of
Outlook/Outlook express, because, well, Mac Mail is just that simple and to use
anything else is just a shame!
James A. Dean
On Mar 30, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Kimberly wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I got my Macbook a few weeks ago and, though I've been a computer user
> for many years, I'm having a lot of trouble making the switch from
> windows to mac. I think it's mostly the arrangement of the elements on
> the screen -- what is where and how to get from one place to another
> so I can do the things I want to do. Truthfully, it's been pretty
> frustrating and I find myself returning to the windows environment
> more often than I'd like.
>
> I've read through the online VO guide and I have David Pogue's book
> (recommended by someone on this list). I've even thought about going
> for the one on one training offered at my apple store, though I don't
> know how helpful this would be given the lack of knowledge they
> exhibited with regard to VO.
>
> So my question, can you recommend some other resources (articles,
> podcasts, online tutorials) that might make my transition smoother?
>
> Any help is much appreciated. Sorry for the long post.
>
> Kim
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